Bill Text: CA AB3176 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Professional land surveyors: surveying practices: monuments and corner accessories.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-09 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. [AB3176 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB3176-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 17, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3176

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Introduced by Assembly Member Hoover

February 16, 2024

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An act to amend section Section 8773.3 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to land surveying.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3176, as amended, Hoover. Professional land surveyors: surveying practices: monuments and corner accessories.

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.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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.