The Act - Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying

underground workings, and on the beds of bodies of water to
determine areas and volumes for:
(i)AAlocating real property boundaries;
(ii)AAplatting and laying out land and
subdivisions of land; or
(iii)AApreparing and perpetuating maps,
record plats, field note records, easements, and real property
descriptions that represent those surveys; and
(B)AAconsulting, 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 subdivision.
(7)AA"Registered professional land surveyor" means a
person registered by the board as a registered professional land
surveyor.
(8)AA"State land surveying" means the science or
practice of land measurement according to established and
recognized methods engaged in as a profession or service for the
public for compensation and consisting of the following activities
conducted when the resulting field notes or maps are to be filed
with the General Land Office:
(A)AAdetermining by survey the location or
relocation of original land grant boundaries and corners;
(B)AAcalculating area and preparing field note
descriptions of surveyed and unsurveyed land or land in which the
state or the permanent school fund has an interest;
and
(C)AApreparing maps showing the survey results.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 611, Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.
Sec.A1071.003.AAAPPLICATION OF SUNSET ACT.A The Texas Board
of Professional Land Surveying is subject to Chapter 325,
Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence
as provided by that chapter, the board is abolished and this chapter
expires September 1, 2015.
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