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17-48-201. Licensure required — Sole or group practice — Surveyor interns.
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17-48-201. Licensure required — Sole or group practice — Surveyor interns.
(a)(1) It is unlawful for a person who is not a professional surveyor licensed by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors to hold himself or herself out as a professional surveyor to practice or offer to practice land surveying in the state, as defined in this chapter, or to use in connection with his or her name or otherwise assume or advertise any title or description tending to convey the impression that he or she is a professional surveyor unless the person has been licensed under this chapter.
(2) The State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors may discipline nonlicensees that violate this chapter by the levy of a fine in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each offense.
(b)(1)(A) Admission to practice land surveying and surveying measurement certification shall be determined upon the basis of individual personal qualifications.
(B) The right to engage in the practice of land surveying and surveying measurement certification is a personal right, based upon the qualifications of the individual, evidenced by his or her license certificate, and is not transferable.
(2) “Surveying measurement certification” does not permit the preparation of engineering or architectural design documents or quantity estimate payment documents.
(c)(1) A professional surveyor may practice his or her profession through the medium of or as a member or employee of a firm if:
(A) All surveys are signed and stamped with the signature and seal of the professional surveyor in responsible charge; and
(B) The firm has complied with § 17-48-207.
(2) The professional surveyor signing and sealing the surveys s
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-48-201
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17-48-201. Licensure required — Sole or group practice — Surveyor interns.
(a)(1) It is unlawful for a person who is not a professional surveyor licensed by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors to hold himself or herself out as a professional surveyor to practice or offer to practice land surveying in the state, as defined in this chapter, or to use in connection with his or her name or otherwise assume or advertise any title or description tending to convey the impression that he or she is a professional surveyor unless the person has been licensed under this chapter.
(2) The State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors may discipline nonlicensees that violate this chapter by the levy of a fine in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each offense.
(b)(1)(A) Admission to practice land surveying and surveying measurement certification shall be determined upon the basis of individual personal qualifications.
(B) The right to engage in the practice of land surveying and surveying measurement certification is a personal right, based upon the qualifications of the individual, evidenced by his or her license certificate, and is not transferable.
(2) “Surveying measurement certification” does not permit the preparation of engineering or architectural design documents or quantity estimate payment documents.
(c)(1) A professional surveyor may practice his or her profession through the medium of or as a member or employee of a firm if:
(A) All surveys are signed and stamped with the signature and seal of the professional surveyor in responsible charge; and
(B) The firm has complied with § 17-48-207.
(2) The professional surveyor signing and sealing the surveys shall be personally and professionally responsible therefor, and his or her participation in any firm either as a partner, principal, or employee does not limit his or her individual liability.
(d) A surveyor intern may engage in the practice of land surveying only as an employee of or under the supervision of a professional surveyor.
(e) It is unlawful for a person to prepare, distribute, or place the public records, maps, documents, digital files, or other data that bear or contain a seal or any certification consisting of a verbal, numerical, or symbolic representation of the accuracy or precision of surveying measurements as defined in § 17-48-101(6) or that bear or contain a statement of determination by an authoritative professional source unless the maps, documents, digital files, or other data bear or contain the seal of a professional surveyor or professional engineer practicing within his or her respective discipline.
(f) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) The usual symbols and statements of the cartographic representation of scale and direction, including without limitation scale ratios, scale bars, and north arrows;
(2) The preparation and attachment of metadata or to the scientific analysis of measurement data for research by a person who is not a professional surveyor or professional engineer; and
(3) A government agency or office in conducting its statutory or constitutional duties to certify representations of spatial data.
(g) This chapter does not impair or reduce the scope of:
(1) The professional practice of engineers as defined by statute and rules of the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors; and
(2) The professional practice of professional architects as defined by statute and rules of the Arkansas State Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
17-48-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1)(A) “Firm” means a form of business entity that offers professional surveying services of its licensed personnel to the public.
(B) “Firm” does not include an individual licensee operating under his or her name;
(2)(A) “Land surveying” means a service comprising the:
(i) Determination of the location of land boundaries and land boundary corners; and
(ii) Preparation of:
(a) Plats showing the shape and areas of tracts of land and their subdivision into smaller tracts;
(b) Plats showing the location of streets, roads, and rights-of-way of tracts to give access to smaller tracts; and
(c) Official plats or maps of land thereof in this state.
(B) “Land surveying” does not include the measure of acreage of timber, cotton, rice, or other agricultural crops.
(C) A person practices or offers to practice land surveying if the person:
(i) Engages in land surveying for others; or
(ii) By verbal claim, sign, letterhead, card, telephone listing, or in any other way represents himself or herself:
(a) To be a professional surveyor; or
(b) As able to perform land surveying in this state;
(3) “Metadata” means a description of the content, ancestry and source, quantity, database schema, and accuracy of digital map data;
(4) “Professional surveyor” means a person who by reason of special knowledge of mathematics, surveying principles and methods, and legal requirements that are acquired by educational or practical experience is qualified to engage in the practice of land surveying and surveying measurement certification;
(5) “Responsible charge” means direct control of, supervision of, and legal responsibility for the surveying work performed; and
(6) “Surveying measurement certification” means providi
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-48-101
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 17-48-101. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
17-48-207. Certificates of authorization.
(a) A firm that practices or offers to practice surveying is required to obtain a certificate of authorization from the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors under the board's rules.
(b)(1) In order to obtain a certificate of authorization, a surveying firm shall file an application with the board on a form provided by the board and shall provide all information required by the board's rules.
(2) A firm shall file a new application with the board on a form provided by the board:
(A) Upon renewal of the certificate of authorization; and
(B) Within thirty (30) days of the time that any of the information contained in the application form changes or differs for any reason from the information contained in the original application form.
(3) If in the judgment of the board the application meets the requirements of this chapter, the board shall issue a certificate of authorization for the surveying firm.
(c) A certificate of authorization is not required for a firm performing surveying for:
(1) Itself;
(2) The firm's parent organization; or
(3) A subsidiary of the firm.
(d)(1) A firm shall not be relieved of responsibility for the conduct or acts of its agents, employees, officers, partners, members, or managers by reason of its compliance with this section.
(2) An individual practicing surveying under this chapter shall not be relieved of his or her responsibility for surveying services performed by reason of employment or other relationship with a firm holding a certificate of authorization.
(e)(1) Unless the board has first issued a certification of authorization or a letter stating the eligibility of an applicant to receive a certificate of authorization, the Secre
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-48-207
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 17-48-207. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.