Membership:
MALSCE
has close to 700 individual members in five chapters
throughout the state of Massachusetts. The chapters
include: Berkshire County, Cape Cod, Central Massachusetts,
Connecticut Valley and Eastern Massachusetts. Berkshire County includes all of Berkshire
County; Cape Cod includes Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket
Counties; Central Massachusetts includes Worcester County;
Connecticut Valley includes Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire
Counties; and Eastern Massachusetts includes Bristol,
Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk Counties.
Membership
Types include:
Registered Members of MALSCE shall be limited
to an individual registered under the law of the Commonwealth
as either a Professional Land Surveyor or as a Professional
Engineer. A Registered Member shall enjoy full voting
privileges and shall be entitled to hold any office.
Associate Members shall be a non-registered individual
engaged in land surveying and interested in the advancement
of surveying and mapping.
Associate Members shall enjoy full voting privileges
but may not hold office in MALSCE.
Student Members shall be a student enrolled
in a degree program of a recognized school, college
or university, who has a sincere interest in land surveying.
Student Members have no voting privileges and
may not hold office in MALSCE.
Out-of-State
Members of MALSCE shall
be any individual engaged in land surveying, registered
or non-registered, and not residing or practicing in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An Out-of-State Member has no voting privileges
and may not hold office.
Sustaining Members
of MALSCE can be: any commercial
firm engaged in the manufacture, sales or service of
surveying and engineering equipment and supplies, or
a firm supplying computing, reproduction or other services;
or any educational institution in surveying and/or
engineering. Sustaining
Members can advertise in the association’s quarterly
newsletter, the
MALSCE Surveyor, at discounted rates, and are eligible
for a 25% reduction in exhibit rates at the MALSCE Annual
Convention. They
have no voting privileges and may not hold office in
MALSCE. Sustaning Member Application
Life
Members of MALSCE shall be an individual who has
attained the age of sixty-five, who can demonstrate
membership in MALSCE for at least twenty years, has
applied to the Board for Life Membership and whose application
received the approval of two-thirds of the entire board.
Life Members shall enjoy the full voting privileges
and shall be entitled to hold office in MALSCE.
Life Members are not required to pay dues.
Honorary Members of MALSCE shall be an individual
of distinction, registered or non-registered, or an
individual of acknowledge eminence in the profession,
who, upon being recommended to the Board by a Registered
Member, has received the approval of two-thirds of the
entire Board. Honorary
Members shall have no voting privileges and may not
hold office in MALSCE. Honorary Members may hold other membership
classifications with all the privileges attendant thereto. However, they’re not required to pay dues in
any membership classification.
Fees
vary due to levels of membership and chapter affiliation,
if applicable.
