DWR_3604581

• Document Type - Guidance Documents: Policy
• Topic: Board of Examiners
• Title: REVOKED POLICY 2003-1: WRITTEN EXAMINATION OF THE STATUTES AND WATER WELL CONSTRUCTION RULES
• Document Date: 11/7/2016

STATE OF COLORADO
BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF WATER WELL CONSTRUCTION AND POMP INSTALLATION CONTRACTORS
Division of Water Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 818
Denver, CO 80203
Phone [phone] ; r87s Y
FAX [phone] BOARD POLICY NO. 2003-1
Bill Owens
http://www.water.state.co.us/boe Revoked, Scroll for additional info Governor
Written Examination on the Statutes Greg E. Walcher
and Water Well Construction Rules Executive Director, DNR
Hal D. Simpson, RE
PROBLEM: secretary
As part of the licensing requirements set forth in section 37-91-105, C.R.S., the Board of Examiners
is required to administer a written and oral examination to determine an applicant's professional
competence for the license requested. Section 37-91-105(5), C.R.S., identifies specific parameters
to be included in the examination, including an evaluation of the applicant's "knowledge and
application of state laws and local ordinances concerning the construction of wells or the
installation of pumping equipment, or both, and rules promulgated in connection therewith." The
Board determined that, to fulfill its statutory responsibility, a written examination on the provisions
of applicable statutes and the Water Well Construction Rules, 2 CCR 402-2, was needed to
adequately assess an applicant's knowledge of the statutes/rules and their incorporated construction
standards.
DISCUSSION:
As part of the licensing process, the Board of Examiners compiled a written examination
(hereinafter "Statute/Rules Exam") that tests an examinee's knowledge of Colorado law pertaining
to well construction and pump installation and the Water Well Construction Rules, 2 CCR 402-2.
This Board policy incorporates the Statute/Rules Exam into the Board's existing process of
application and examination and establishes who must take the exam and when it can be taken or
retaken.
POLICY:
To address the need to administer an examination that more fully assesses the knowledge of an
applicant for licensure with respect to Colorado law and the Water Well Construction Rules and to
provide for the implementation of the examination within the current application and testing
process, the Board hereby adopts the following policy:
All applicants for a new well construction and/or pump installation license, a special license,
or a different method of well construction and/or pump installation must take the
Statutes/Rules Exam. This includes currently licensed contractors who apply for a license in
a different method of well construction and/or pump installation or for a special license who
have not taken the Statute/Rules Exam. However, once any licensed contractor has taken
the Statutes/Rules Exam, he/she need not take it again if he/she applies for a license for an
additional method of well construction and/or pump installation, unless the Statutes/Rules
Exam has been revised due to changes in the statutes or Rules since the licensed contractor
took the Statutes/Rules Exam. Where the Board has suspended a license, the Board may
require the licensee to pass the Statues/Rules Exam as a condition of reinstatement of
suspended license.
TIMOTHY L. DECKER, Montrose; H. RAY NEWMYER, Mosca; GLENN CLEMENT, Greeley