AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 17, 2024
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
98
Introduced by Assembly Member Hoover
February 16, 2024
An act to amend section Section 8773.3 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to land surveying.
Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal committee: no Local program: no
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
The Professional Land Surveyors’ Act provides for the licensure and regulation of land surveyors by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and requires any person practicing, or offering to practice, land surveying in the state to submit evidence that they are qualified to practice and to be licensed under the act. Among other things, the act requires a land surveyor, when filing a corner record with the county surveyor or engineer of the county where the corner is situated, to ensure a corner accessory or monument is reconstructed or rehabilitated so that it remains permanently fixed, as specified.
This bill would instead require a land surveyor, when using a monument or corner accessory
with a physical condition that is less than permanent and durable as control in any survey, to reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument or corner accessory to a permanent condition, as specified.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8773.3 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
8773.3.
In every case where a monument or corner accessory is found with a physical condition that is less than permanent and durable, the licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer using that monument or corner accessory as control in any survey shall reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument or corner, so that the same shall be left by them in such physical condition that it remains as permanent a monument or corner accessory as is reasonably possible and so that the same may be reasonably expected to be located with facility at all times in the future.