Task Force on NCEES Model Law for Surveying Jim Plasker Task Force Facilitator Report and Slides Available at

Task Force Organizations American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) American Society of Civil Engineers - Geomatics Division (ASCE) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS) National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS)

Task Force Members

1995 Model Law: (4)Practice of Land Surveying ‑ The term "Practice of Land Surveying" within the intent of this Act shall mean providing professional services such as consultation, investigation, testimony evaluation, expert technical testimony, planning, mapping, assembling, and interpreting reliable scientific measurements and information relative to the location, size, shape, or physical features of the earth, improvements on the earth, the space above the earth, or any part of the earth, and utilization and development of these facts and interpretation into an orderly survey map, plan, report, description, or project. The practice of land surveying includes, but is not limited to, any one or more of the following:

1995 Model Law: 1995 Model Law: Practice of Land Surveying includes… any one or more of the following: (a) Locates, relocates, establishes, reestablishes, lays out, or retraces any property line or boundary of any tract of land or any road, right of way, easement, alignment, or elevation of any of the fixed works embraced within the practice of land surveying.

1995 Model Law: 1995 Model Law: Practice of Land Surveying includes… (b) Makes any survey for the subdivision of any tract of land. (c) Determines, by the use of principles of land surveying, the position for any survey monument or reference point; or sets, resets, or replaces any such monument or reference point.

1995 Model Law: 1995 Model Law: Practice of Land Surveying includes… (d) Determines the configuration or contour of the earth’s surface or the position of fixed objects thereon by measuring lines and angles and applying the principles of mathematics or photogrammetry.

1995 Model Law: 1995 Model Law: Practice of Land Surveying includes… (e) Geodetic surveying which includes surveying for determination of the size and shape of the earth utilizing angular and linear measurements through spatially oriented spherical geometry.

1995 Model Law: 1995 Model Law: Practice of Land Surveying includes… (f) Creates, prepares, or modifies electronic or computerized data, including land formation (sic) systems, and geographic information systems, relative to the performance of the activities in the above described items (a) through (e).

Issues Addressed by Task Force Identity of the Profession Education requirements Examinations Grandfathering FOR MORE INFO...

Issues Addressed by Task Force (cont) Reciprocity/Comity Exclusion of Practice Continuing Education/Professional Development

GIS Community Issues? Breadth of Preamble Paragraph Licensing: Practice v. Use of Tools Regulatory Interest: High v. Low –North Carolina Guidelines Entrance: Grandfather v. Exam

Task Force Status as of July 1999 Task Force Next to Address GIS Issues Invitations Extended to: - NSGIC - UCGIS - URISA Addendum to Original Report Planned

NCEES Status as of July 1999 Proposed Actions - Buffalo (1999) –Assess Need for Discipline-Specific Examinations - Survey Member Boards –Segregate “Geomatics” Clauses in Model Law Definition of Practice –Reference use of GIS/LIS in Segregated Locations of Model Law

NCEES Status as of July 1999 (cont) Proposed Actions - Buffalo (1999) –Provide for Jurisdiction-level Waiver of Examination on Land Surveying –Reinforce Penalty Clauses for Practicing Outside Field of Expertise

Exclusion of Practice Regulatory Interest by Category North Carolina Guidelines

Regulatory Interest Levels

Regulatory Interest Levels (cont.)

North Carolina Board Guidelines Not Regulated: - Common road maps … water or air navigation charts - Gazetteer or atlas - Maps prepared for... use in the curriculum - Maps produced by broadcast or print media - Transcription of existing geo-referenced data into GIS/LIS systems

North Carolina Guidelines (cont.) Not Regulated: - Maps prepared by lay persons for conversational or illustrative purposes...including advertising material and users guides - Transcription of public record data into a cadastre, [including records] maintenance - [Mapping] by the Defense Mapping Agency or any other Federal... agency that shows no property boundaries

North Carolina Guidelines (cont.) Not Regulated: - Documents prepared by the US Census Bureau and documents or databases using census data -Maps and data bases created by … full time employees of [a] firm, of features that are wholly contained within [the firm’s] properties, so long as the data is held by that firm and is not made available to persons or firms or agencies outside that firm

North Carolina Guidelines (cont.) Not Regulated: - Maps and data bases depicting the distribution of natural resources prepared by [other professionals] so long as any property boundaries … are either supplied by a professional land surveyor or transcribed from public deed or plat records -Maps and geo-referenced databases depicting physical features and events prepared by any government agency where the access to that data is restricted by statute

North Carolina Guidelines (cont.) Regulated: - Maps and geo-referenced databases of any man-made or topographic feature by either terrestrial surveying methods, photogrammetric or GPS locations. This includes all base maps and data bases prepared by any person, firm, or government agency where that data is available to the public unless specifically exempted in the list above or by General Statue -The following framework data should be developed under the supervision of a Professional Land Surveyor: Geodetic Control, Orthoimagery, Elevation, Transportation