By Madden H.B. No. 200
74R1822 PB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of 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 mathematics, related applied
1-12 and physical sciences, and relevant laws to the measurement and
1-13 location of lines, angles, elevations, natural features, and
1-14 existing man-made works; and, on the beds of bodies of water, the
1-15 determination of areas and volumes, for:
1-16 (A) the location of real property boundaries
1-17 by any means, including the use of:
1-18 (i) coordinate datums based on latitude
1-19 and longitude;
1-20 (ii) universal transverse mercator
1-21 coordinates;
1-22 (iii) Texas state plane coordinates;
1-23 (iv) local horizontal coordinates; and
1-24 (v) national and local vertical datums;
2-1 (B) the platting and layout of lands and
2-2 subdivisions of land; and
2-3 (C) the preparation and perpetuation of maps,
2-4 record plats, field note records, and real property descriptions
2-5 that represent those surveys.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
2-7 applies to conduct that constitutes professional surveying that
2-8 occurs on or after that date. Conduct that occurred before that
2-9 date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the conduct
2-10 occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-11 purpose.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.