Bill Text: CA SB1099 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Land surveyors and civil engineers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1099 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1099-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1099	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cannella

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to amend Section 8725 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1099, as introduced, Cannella. Land surveyors.
   The Professional Land Surveyors' Act establishes the Board for
Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists within the
Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of
land surveyors and requires any person practicing, or offering to
practice, land surveying in the state to submit evidence that he or
she is qualified to practice and to be licensed under the act.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8725 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   8725.  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 is unlawful for any person to practice, offer to practice, or
represent  himself or herself,   herself or
himself,  as a land surveyor in this state, or to set, reset,
replace, or remove any survey monument on land in which he or she has
no legal interest, unless he or she has been licensed or
specifically exempted from licensing under this chapter.