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  1  1                                         SENATE FILE 2319    
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 REVISING THE DEFINITION OF THE PRACTICE OF LAND SURVEYING.
  1  5 
  1  6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 
  1  7 
  1  8    Section 1.  Section 542B.2, subsection 5, Code 1997, is
  1  9 amended by striking the subsection and inserting in lieu
  1 10 thereof the following:
  1 11    5.  a.  The practice of "land surveying" includes providing
  1 12 professional services such as consultation, investigation,
  1 13 testimony, evaluation, planning, mapping, assembling, and
  1 14 interpreting reliable scientific measurements and information
  1 15 relative to the location of property lines or boundaries, and
  1 16 the utilization, development, and interpretation of these
  1 17 facts into an orderly survey, plat, or map.  The practice of
  1 18 land surveying includes, but is not limited to, the following:
  1 19    (1)  Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing,
  1 20 setting, or resetting of permanent monumentation for any
  1 21 property line or boundary of any tract or parcel of land.
  1 22 Setting permanent monuments constitutes an improvement to real
  1 23 property.
  1 24    (2)  Making any survey for the division or subdivision of
  1 25 any tract or parcel of land.
  1 26    (3)  Determination, by the use of the principles of land
  1 27 surveying, of the position for any permanent survey monument
  1 28 or reference point, or setting, resetting, or replacing any
  1 29 survey monument or reference point excluding the
  1 30 responsibility of engineers pursuant to section 314.8.
  1 31    (4)  Creating and writing metes and bounds descriptions as
  1 32 defined in section 354.2.
  1 33    (5)  Geodetic surveying for determination of the size and
  1 34 shape of the earth both horizontally and vertically for the
  1 35 precise positioning of permanent land survey monuments on the
  2  1 earth utilizing angular and linear measurements through
  2  2 spatially oriented spherical geometry.
  2  3    (6)  Creation, preparation, or modification of electronic
  2  4 or computerized data, including land information systems and
  2  5 geographical information systems, relative to the performance
  2  6 of the activities identified in subparagraphs (1) through (5).
  2  7    b.  This subsection does not prohibit a professional
  2  8 engineer from practicing any aspect of the practice of
  2  9 engineering.  A land surveyor is not prohibited from
  2 10 performing engineering surveys as defined in the practice of
  2 11 engineering.
  2 12    c.  A person is construed to be engaged in or offering to
  2 13 be engaged in the practice of land surveying if the person
  2 14 does any of the following:
  2 15    (1)  Engages in land surveying.
  2 16    (2)  Makes a representation by verbal claim, sign,
  2 17 advertisement, letterhead, card, or other manner that the
  2 18 person is a land surveyor.
  2 19    (3)  Uses any title which implies that the person is a land
  2 20 surveyor or that the person is licensed under this chapter.
  2 21    (4)  Holds the person's self out as able to perform, or who
  2 22 does perform, any service or work included in the practice of
  2 23 land surveying.  
  2 24 
  2 25 
  2 26                                                             
  2 27                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2 28                               President of the Senate
  2 29 
  2 30 
  2 31                                                             
  2 32                               RON J. CORBETT
  2 33                               Speaker of the House
  2 34 
  2 35    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  3  1 is known as Senate File 2319, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
  3  2 
  3  3 
  3  4                                                             
  3  5                               MARY PAT GUNDERSON
  3  6                               Secretary of the Senate
  3  7 Approved                , 1998
  3  8 
  3  9 
  3 10                         
  3 11 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
  3 12 Governor
     

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