| License Description |
General Terms and Definitions:
§73-13-71. Definitions.
(1) The term "board," as used in Sections 73-13-71 through 73-13-105,
shall mean the Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors as
provided for in Section 73-13-5 of this chapter.
(2) The term "professional surveyor," as used in Sections 73-13-71
through 73-13-105, shall mean a person who engages in the practice of
surveying as hereinafter defined, whether in an individual capacity, or in
behalf of or as an employee of any state, county, or municipal authority of the
State of Mississippi.
(3) The term "surveyor intern," as used in Sections 73-13-71 through 73-
13-105, shall mean a candidate for licensure as a professional surveyor who has
successfully passed the fundamentals of land surveying examination, has met the
requirements of the board for enrollment, has received from the board a
certificate stating that he has successfully passed this portion of the
professional land surveying examinations and has been enrolled as a surveyor
intern.
(4) The practice of "surveying," within the meaning and intent of
Sections 73-13-71 through 73-13-105, shall mean providing professional services
such as consultation, investigation, testimony evaluation, expert technical
testimony, planning, mapping, assembling and interpreting reliable scientific
measurement and information relative to the location, size, shape or physical
features of the earth, improvements on the earth, the space above the earth, or
any part of the earth, utilization and development of these facts and
interpretation into an orderly survey map, plan or report and in particular,
the retracement of or the creating of land boundaries and descriptions of real
property.
The practice of surveying includes, but is not limited to, any one or
more of the following:
(a) Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing, laying out or
retracing any property boundary or easement.
(b) Making any survey for the subdivision of any tract of land,
including rights-of-way and easements.
(c) Determining, by the use of principles of surveying, the position for
any survey monument or reference point; or setting, resetting or replacing any
such monument or reference point, commonly known as control surveys.
(d) Creating, preparing or modifying electronic or computerized data, including land information systems and geographic information systems, relative
to the performance of the activities in the above-described paragraphs (a)
through (c).
§73-13-73. Persons practicing surveying required to be licensed.
No person shall practice surveying without having first been duly and
regularly licensed by the Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and
Surveyors as a professional surveyor as required by Sections 73-13-71 through
73-13-105, nor shall any person practice surveying whose authority to practice
is revoked by the said board.
The practice of surveying, which must be performed by or under the direct
supervision of a professional surveyor and each map or drawing of which must be
stamped with the seal of said licensee as provided in Section 73-13-83,
includes, but is not limited to, the following: property and boundary surveys;
subdivision surveys and plats; public land surveys; easement surveys; right-ofway surveys; lease surveys; and all other surveys that require the
establishment or reestablishment of property boundaries.
Duties within both the practice of surveying and the practice of
engineering, which must be performed by or under the direct supervision of a
professional surveyor or a professional engineer and each map, drawing or
report of which must be stamped with the seal of said licensee as provided in
Sections 73-13-29 and 73-13-83, include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) Determining the configuration or contour of the earth's surface or
the position of fixed objects thereon, commonly known as topographical surveys
and as-built surveys (excluding the location of property boundaries);
(b) Performing geodetic surveying which includes surveying for
determination of the size and shape of the earth utilizing angular and linear
measurements through spatially oriented spherical geometry;
(c) Determining, by the use of principles of surveying, the position for
any survey control (nonboundary) monument or reference point; or setting,
resetting or placing any such monument or reference point; and
(d) Creating, preparing or modifying electronic or computerized data,
including land information systems, and geographic information systems,
relative to the performance of the activities in the above-described paragraphs
(a) through (c). |