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2005S0536-1 03/09/05
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1454
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of professional surveying.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (6), Section 1071.002, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(6) "Professional surveying" means the practice of
land, boundary, or property surveying or other similar professional
practices. The term includes:
(A) performing any service or work the adequate
performance of which involves applying special knowledge of the
principles of geodesy, mathematics, related applied and physical
sciences, and relevant laws to the measurement or location of
sites, points, lines, angles, elevations, natural features, and
existing man-made works in the air, on the earth's surface, within
underground workings, and on the beds of bodies of water to
determine areas and volumes for:
(i) locating real property boundaries;
(ii) platting and laying out land and
subdivisions of land; or
(iii) preparing and perpetuating maps,
record plats, field note records, easements, and real property
descriptions that represent those surveys; and
(B) consulting, investigating, evaluating,
analyzing, planning, providing an expert surveying opinion or
testimony, acquiring survey data, preparing technical reports, and
mapping to the extent those acts are performed in connection with
acts described by this paragraph [Paragraph (A)].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.