SB 444

Under current law, with certain exceptions, a person may not practice land

surveying or represent that he or she is a land surveyor unless the land surveyor

section (section) of the examining board of architects, landscape architects,

professional engineers, designers and land surveyors (board) has issued a certificate

of registration or permit to the person. "Land surveying" is defined as determining

the location of land boundaries and boundary corners; preparing maps that show the

shape and area of tracts of land or subdivisions or the layout of roads, streets, or

rights-of-way; or preparing official plats or maps of land in this state.

This bill replaces "land surveying" with the term "practice of professional land

surveying" and defines the term as any of the following:

1. Any service comprising the establishment or reestablishment of the

boundaries of one or more tracts of land or the boundaries of any of the following

interests in real property: a) the layout and rights-of-way of roads or streets; b) air

or subsurface property rights; or c) public or private easements.

2. Designing or coordinating designs for the purpose of platting or subdividing

land into smaller tracts.

3. Placing, replacing, restoring, or perpetuating monuments in or on the

ground to evidence the location of a point that is necessary to describe the shape,

area, and boundaries of one or more tracts of land or the subdivision or consolidation

of one or more tracts of land or that is necessary to describe the boundaries of any

interest in real property identified in item 1.

4. Preparing maps that depict any interest in real property identified in item

1. for the purpose of establishing the boundaries of any such interest in real property.

5. Preparing any of the following: a) an official map established or amended by

a city, established or amended by a village, or adopted by a town; b) an assessor's plat;

c) a map or plat of cemetery lands; d) a subdivision plat, certified survey map, or

correction instrument; e) a condominium plat or correction instrument; or f) a project

and time-share plat.

6. Performing construction or geodetic surveying in connection with any of the

practices specified in items 1. to 5.

The bill also replaces the certificate of registration requirement under current

law with a licensure requirement. Therefore, under the bill with certain exceptions,

a person may not engage in the practice of professional land surveying or represent

that he or she is a professional land surveyor unless the person is issued a license or

permit by the section.

In addition, the bill changes the name of the section to the professional land

surveyor section and changes the name of the board to the examining board of

architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, designers and professional

land surveyors. The bill also replaces various references under current law to

"registered land surveyor," "land surveyor," and "surveyor" with "professional land