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==== History ====
Licensure in the United States began in the State of [[Wyoming]] when lawyers, notaries and others without engineering education were making poor quality submissions to the state for permission to use state water for irrigation. Clarence Johnson, the Wyoming state engineer, presented a bill in 1907 to the state legislature that required registration for anyone presenting themselves as an engineer or land surveyor and created a board of examiners. Charles Bellamy, a 52-year-old engineer and mineral surveyor then became the first licensed professional engineer in the United States. After enactment, Johnson would wryly write about the effect of the law, saying, "A most astonishing change took place within a few months in the character of maps and plans filed with the applications for permits." [[Louisiana]], followed by [[Florida]] and [[Illinois]], would become the next states to require licensure. [[Montana]] became the last state to legislate the licensing in 1947, except Hawaii.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= McGuirt|first1= Doug|title= The Professional Engineering Century|url=https://www.nspe.org/sites/default/files/resources/pdfs/pemagazine/june2007_the_professional_engineering.pdf|access-date= July 7, 2018|journal= Professional Engineer|publisher= [[National Society of Professional Engineers]]|date= June 2007|pages= 24–29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716193510/https://www.nspe.org/sites/default/files/resources/pdfs/pemagazine/june2007_the_professional_engineering.pdf|archive-date= July 16, 2017}}</ref>
==== Requirements ====
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