By Madden H.B. No. 200
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to professional surveying.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2(1), Professional Land Surveying
1-5 Practices Act (Article 5282c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Professional surveying" means the practice <for
1-8 compensation> of land, boundary, or property surveying or other
1-9 similar professional practices. The term includes any service or
1-10 work the adequate performance of which involves the application of
1-11 special knowledge of the principles of geodesy, mathematics,
1-12 related applied and physical sciences, and relevant laws to the
1-13 measurement and location of sites, points, lines, angles,
1-14 elevations, natural features, and existing man-made works in the
1-15 air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings,<;>
1-16 and<,> on the beds of bodies of water for<,> the purpose of
1-17 determining <determination of> areas and volumes<,> for:
1-18 (A) the location of real property boundaries;
1-19 (B) the platting and layout of lands and
1-20 subdivisions of land; and
1-21 (C) the preparation and perpetuation of maps,
1-22 record plats, field note records, easements, and real property
1-23 descriptions that represent those surveys.
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 3A, Professional Land Surveying Practices
2-1 Act (Article 5282c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
2-2 read as follows:
2-3 Sec. 3A. This Act does not require the use of a registered
2-4 land surveyor to establish an easement, or a construction estimate,
2-5 which does not involve the monumentation, delineation, or
2-6 preparation of a metes and bounds description.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
2-8 applies to conduct that constitutes professional surveying that
2-9 occurs on or after that date. Conduct that occurred before that
2-10 date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the conduct
2-11 occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-12 purpose.
2-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.