NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 449

SENATE BILL 634

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 89-2(5) TO DEFINE THE PRACTICE OF LAND SURVEYING.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 89-2(5) is rewritten so that the same shall read as follows:

"(5)      The term, 'Practice of Land Surveying', within the intent of this act, shall mean any service or work, the adequate performance of which involves the application of special knowledge of the principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence to the act of measuring and locating lines, angles, elevations, natural and man-made features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings, and on the beds of bodies of water for the purpose of determining areas and volumes, for the monumenting of property boundaries, and for the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions thereof, including the topography, alignment and grades of streets and incidental drainage within the subdivision, and for the preparation and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field note records and property descriptions that represent these surveys."

Sec. 2.  All laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May. 1973.