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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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