By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1868
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the regulation of the practice of professional land
 1-2     surveying.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 24, Professional Land Surveying Practices
 1-5     Act (Article 5282c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 24.  ENFORCEMENT; COMPLAINTS; HEARINGS.  (a)  Any person
 1-8     may file a complaint with the Texas Board of Professional Land
 1-9     Surveying regarding a violation of this Act or any rule or
1-10     regulation of the board.  The board may also institute proceedings
1-11     against a registrant or licensee on its behalf without a formal
1-12     written third party complaint.  Each alleged violation of
1-13     applicable statutes, when duly reported and substantiated by sworn
1-14     affidavits, shall be investigated.  The board may employ the
1-15     investigators or inspectors necessary to enforce properly the
1-16     provisions of this Act.  The board may use the services of
1-17     volunteers in performing investigations.  A volunteer is immune
1-18     from civil or criminal liability arising from an act or omission in
1-19     the course of performing an investigation unless the person acted
1-20     in bad faith or with malice.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.