AB 506

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 a 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 alignment 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 establish 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 license requirement. 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