This chapter may be cited as the Professional Land Surveyors' Act. Whenever reference is made to the Land Surveyors' Act by any statute, it shall be construed as referring to the...

Professional land surveyor refers to one who practices or offers to practice land surveying. Whenever reference is made to a land surveyor by any statute, it shall be construed as referring...

Director refers to the Director of Consumer Affairs....

The phrase responsible charge of work means the independent control and direction, by the use of initiative, skill, and independent judgment, of the observations, measurements,...

Any person practices land surveying when he professes to be a land surveyor or is in responsible charge of land surveying work....

A subordinate is any person directly supervised by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer and who assists a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer in the...

Board refers to the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors....

Executive officer refers to the executive officer of the board....

In order to safeguard property and public welfare, no person shall practice land surveying unless appropriately licensed or specifically exempted from licensure under this chapter, and...

(a) The Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors is vested with power to administer the provisions and requirements of this chapter, and may make and enforce rules and...

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions....

The executive officer of the board shall keep a complete record of all applications for license and the board's action thereon....

The executive officer shall prepare, once every two years, a roster containing the names and addresses of all licensed land surveyors, and the names and addresses of the holders...

The department may employ such clerical assistance under civil service regulations as may be necessary properly to carry out and enforce the provisions of this chapter....

The board may establish licensed land surveyor technical advisory committees to advise and assist the board with respect to the following: (1) The review and verification of applications...

Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be appointed by the board and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Each committee shall be composed of no more than five members....

Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be licensed under this chapter....

All members of each technical advisory committee shall serve without compensation but shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....

Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be granted the same immunity as is granted to a public employee pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 820) of Chapter 1 of Part...

The board, when it deems necessary, may establish land surveyors review committees to hear all matters assigned by the board, including, but not limited to, any contested case which is assigned...

Each review committee shall consist of no fewer than three licensed land surveyors appointed by the board. Each member of a committee shall have the same qualifications and shall be...

Each member of a committee shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....

Except as otherwise provided in this article, all hearings which are conducted by a committee shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with...

At the conclusion of any hearing which is conducted by a committee, the committee shall prepare a proposed decision, in such form that it may be adopted by the board as the decision in...

The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code, rules...

Each member of a land surveyors review committee or other board-appointed committee and any board-appointed representative of the board shall be granted the same immunity as is granted to...

Any person practicing, or offering to practice, land surveying in this state shall submit evidence that he or she is qualified to practice and shall be licensed under this chapter. It...

A person, including any person employed by the state or by a city, county, or city and county within the state, practices land surveying within the meaning of this chapter who, either in...

Any licensed land surveyor may offer to practice, procure, and offer to procure civil engineering work incidental to his or her land surveying practice, even though he or she is not...

A licensed land surveyor may also perform land planning in connection with the land surveying activities authorized by this chapter....

Surveys made exclusively for geological or landscaping purposes, which do not involve the determination of any property line do not constitute surveying within the meaning of this chapter....

Surveys authorized under this chapter do not include the design, either in whole or in part, of any structure or fixed works embraced within the practice of civil engineering....

(a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more licensed land surveyors or civil engineers registered in this state prior to 1982 (hereinafter called civil engineers) from practicing or...

The following persons are not required to be licensed under this chapter: (a) Officers and employees of the United States of America, practicing solely as those officers or employees,...

A registered civil engineer and a civil engineer exempt from registration under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 are exempt from licensing under this chapter and...

An application for each division of the examination for a license as a land surveyor shall be made to the board on the form prescribed by it, with all statements therein made under oath,...

(a) The first division of the examination shall test the applicant's fundamental knowledge of surveying, mathematics, and basic science. The board shall prescribe by...

The second division of the examination for licensure as a land surveyor shall include an examination that incorporates a national examination for land surveying by a nationally...

(a) The educational qualifications and experience in land surveying, which an applicant for the second division examination shall possess, shall not be less than one of the...

The names and addresses of at least four land surveyors or civil engineers, duly qualified to practice in the place in which such practice has been conducted, each of whom has...

The applicant for the second division of the examination shall state in his application that, should he be licensed, he will support the Constitution of this State and of the United...

Examinations for license shall be held at such times and at such places within the State as determined by board rule. The examinations may be conducted by one or more members of the board...

In determining the qualifications of any applicant for license, a majority vote of the board is required. An applicant failing on examination, upon the payment of another application fee may...

Any applicant who has passed the examinations prescribed by the board shall have a suitable license issued to him or her. (a) An applicant who has passed the first division of...

(a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee established by Section 8805, a retired license to a land surveyor who has been licensed by the board for a minimum of...

The board, upon application therefor, and the payment of the application and license fees fixed by this chapter, may issue a land surveyor's license, without written examination, to any...

If an applicant for license as a land surveyor or certification as a land surveyor-in-training is found by the board to lack the qualifications required for admission to the examination for...

A duplicate certificate of license to replace one lost, destroyed or mutilated may be issued subject to the rules and regulations of the board. The duplicate certificate fee fixed by...

Upon being licensed, each licensee may obtain a stamp or seal of the design authorized by the board bearing the licensee's name, number of certificate, and the legend Licensed Land...

No person shall represent himself or herself as, or use the title of, or any abbreviation or combination of the words in the title of, professional land surveyor, licensed land...

An unrevoked, unsuspended and unexpired license, or renewal certificate, issued by the board is presumptive evidence in all courts and places that the person named is legally licensed...

A temporary authorization to practice as a professional land surveyor, as defined by this chapter, may be granted for a specific project, upon application and payment of the fee prescribed...

(a) A licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional services to a...

Every licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer may administer and certify oaths: (a) When it becomes necessary to take testimony for the identification or establishment of old,...

(c) When the importance of the survey makes it desirable, to administer an oath to his assistants for the faithful performance of their duty. A record of oaths shall be preserved as part of...

Any licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer may practice land surveying and prepare maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other documentary evidence in connection with...

The authority of a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer to prepare, sign, issue, stamp, seal, or approve any map, plat, report, description, or other document shall...

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8761, a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor who signs land surveying maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other...

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), after making a field survey in conformity with the practice of land surveying, the licensed surveyor or licensed civil engineer may file with...

No record of survey of land shown on the latest adopted county assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units, which shows a division of such land into additional parcels, shall be...

The record of survey shall be a map, legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth, or polyester base film, 18 by 26 inches or...

The record of survey shall show the applicable provisions of the following consistent with the purpose of the survey: (a) All monuments found, set, reset, replaced, or removed, describing...

Statements shall appear on the map as follows:...

(Signed and sealed) ________________________ L.S. (or R.C.E.) No. _______________________ License...

(Signed and Sealed) ________________________ County Surveyor L.S. (or...

A record of survey is not required of any survey: (a) When it has been made by a public officer in his or her official capacity and a reproducible copy thereof, showing all data required...

(a) Within 20 working days after receiving the record of survey, or within the additional time as may be mutually agreed upon by the land surveyor or civil engineer and the county...

The county surveyor may charge a reasonable fee for examining a record of survey pursuant to Section 8766 which shall not exceed the cost of the service or one hundred dollars ($100), whichever...

If the county surveyor finds that the record of survey complies with the examination in Section 8766, the county surveyor shall endorse a statement on it of his or her examination,...

If the matters appearing on the record of survey cannot be agreed upon by the licensed land surveyor or the registered civil engineer and the county surveyor within 10 working days...

If the county surveyor fails to timely file the record of survey with the county recorder in accordance with Section 8768, the licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer...

The charge for filing any record of survey, and for indexing the same, shall be the same as provided for subdivided land under Section 27372 of the Government Code....

The record of survey filed with the county recorder of any county shall be securely fastened by him into a suitable book provided for that purpose. He shall keep proper indexes of such...

Any record of survey filed under the provisions of this chapter may be amended to show any course or distance that was omitted therefrom, or to correct any error in: course or...

The use of the word certify or certification by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer in the practice of professional engineering or land surveying or the preparation...

(a) Monuments set shall be sufficient in number and durability and efficiently placed so as not to be readily disturbed, to assure, together with monuments already existing, the...

When coordinates in the California Coordinate System are shown for points on a record of survey map the map may not be recorded unless it also shows, or is accompanied by a map...

Any monument set by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer to mark or reference a point on a property or land line shall be permanently and visibly marked or tagged...

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 4, a person authorized to practice land surveying in this state shall complete, sign, stamp with his or her seal, and file with...

The board shall by regulation provide and prescribe the information which shall be necessary to be included in the corner record and the board shall prescribe the form in which the...

(a) A corner record submitted to the county surveyor or engineer shall be examined by him or her for compliance with subdivision (d) of Section 8765 and Sections 8773, 8773.1,...

In every case where a corner record is filed pursuant to Section 8773, the licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer shall reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument of such...

(a) A corner record shall be signed by a licensed land surveyor or licensed civil engineer and stamped with his or her seal, or in the case of an agency of the United States government...

(a) The right of entry upon or to real property to investigate and utilize boundary evidence, and to perform surveys, is a right of persons legally authorized to practice land surveying, and it...

(a) Upon the filing of a record of survey, amended record of survey, or certificate of correction for recordation pursuant to this chapter, the surveyor or engineer who prepared the...

No person shall use the title or any abbreviation of the title photogrammetrist or photogrammetric surveyor unless he or she holds registration as a civil engineer or licensed land...

Persons meeting the requirements of this article may engage in and perform all photogrammetric services germane to this chapter, either as individuals, employees, or as...

Maps, documents, or reports prepared by, or under the direction of, a licensed photogrammetric surveyor shall carry his signature and certificate number which will indicate his responsibility for...

Photogrammetric surveyor licenses shall be renewable upon payment of the fee fixed by the board for which a renewal certificate shall be issued. Photogrammetric surveyor license fees shall...

The board may receive and investigate complaints against licensed land surveyors and registered civil engineers, and make findings thereon. By a majority vote, the board may reprove,...

The board may receive and investigate complaints against land surveyors-in-training, and make findings thereon. By a majority vote, the board may revoke the certificate of...

The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5...

A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions and duties of a land surveyor is...

The board may reissue a license to any person, whose license has been revoked, if a majority of the members of the board vote in favor of such reinstatement, for reasons the board...

The board shall enforce all of the provisions of this chapter and cause the prosecution of all violations coming to its notice....

It is the duty of the respective officers charged with the enforcement of laws to prosecute all persons charged with the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter....

Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Who, unless he or she is exempt from licensing under this chapter, practices, or offers to practice, land surveying in this state without...

The department shall receive and account for all money derived under the operation of this chapter and, at the end of each month, shall report such money to the State Controller and shall...

Licenses issued under this chapter expire every two years, if not renewed. Biennial renewals shall be staggered on a quarterly basis. To renew an unexpired license the licenseholder shall...

Except as otherwise provided in this article, licenses issued under this chapter may be renewed at any time within three years after expiration on filing of application for renewal on...

A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while the license remains suspended and until it...

A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration, the licensee, as a condition precedent...

A license which is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, unless all of the following apply: (a) The licensee...

Once an expired or delinquent license is renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued pursuant to Section 8803, all of the following apply: (a) The board shall continue to have full...

The renewal or reinstatement of any certificate of registration of a civil engineer under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3, who is also a licensed land surveyor, shall...

The board may make refunds of all fees in accordance with Section 158 of this code....

The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (a) The fee for filing each application for licensure as a...