Bill Text: CA AB1063 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Surveyors and engineers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1063 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1063-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1063	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Eggman

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 8772 of, and to add Section 8764.6 to, the
Business and Professions Code, relating to surveyors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1063, as introduced, Eggman. Record of survey: additional
information.
   Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of
professional engineers and land surveyors by the Board of
Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the Department of
Consumer Affairs. Existing law provides for the filing of a record of
survey by licensed surveyor or licensed civil engineer with the
county surveyor.
   This bill would authorize a licensed surveyor to include
additional information to be filed simultaneously, as a separate
document, as specified, with a record of survey.
   Existing law requires any monument set by a licensed land surveyor
or registered civil engineer to mark or reference a point on a
property or land line shall be permanently and visibly marked or
tagged with the certificate number of the surveyor or civil engineer
setting it, as specified, or if the monument is set by a public
agency, to be marked with the name of the agency and the political
subdivision it serves.
   This bill would require the monument to be marked by the surveyor
or civil engineer, as specified, and to be marked with the name of
the agency and the political subdivision it serves, if the monument
is set by a public agency.
   By imposing additional duties on public agencies, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8764.6 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   8764.6.  (a) A licensed surveyor or civil engineer may include
additional information to be filed simultaneously with a record of
survey. The additional information shall be in the form of a separate
document, formatted according to the applicable County Recorder
standards, with a statement that indicates its relationship to the
record of survey, describes conditions as of the date of recording,
and states that it is not intended to affect or alter the record
title interest. The statement shall also contain a notation
identifying the source of the information.
   (b) The additional information may include any data necessary for
the interpretation of the various items and locations of the points,
lines, and areas shown on the record of survey map, or for the
identification of the survey or surveyor, as may be determined by the
civil engineer or land surveyor preparing the record of survey.
Additional information may include, but is not limited to, unfiled
maps, calculations, field notes, photographs, memoranda, diagrams,
reports, letters, e-mails, oaths, and diaries.
  SEC. 2.  Section 8772 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   8772.   (a)    Any monument set by a licensed
land surveyor or registered civil engineer to mark or reference a
point on a property or land line shall be permanently and visibly
marked or tagged with the certificate number of the surveyor or civil
engineer setting it, each number to be  preceeded 
 preceded  by the letters "L.S." or "R.C.E.," respectively,
as the case may be  or, if   .   If
 the monument is set by a public agency, it shall  also
 be marked with the name of the agency and the political
subdivision it serves. 
    Nothing 
    (b)     Nothing    in this
section shall prevent the inclusion of other information on the tag
which will assist in the tracing or location of the survey records
which relate to the tagged monument.
  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.