California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 5 - Surveying Practice

• Section 8759.
  (a) A licensed land surveyor or licensed civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional services to...
• Section 8760.
  Every licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer may administer and certify oaths:(a) When it becomes necessary to take testimony for the identification or establishment of...
• Section 8761.
  (a) Any licensed land surveyor or civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying may practice land surveying and prepare maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other documentary...
• Section 8761.1.
  The authority of a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer to prepare, sign, issue, stamp, seal, or approve any map, plat, report, description, or...
• Section 8761.2.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8761, a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor who signs land surveying maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other surveying...
• Section 8762.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), after making a field survey in conformity with the practice of land surveying, the licensed surveyor or licensed civil...
• Section 8762.5.
  No record of survey of land shown on the latest adopted county assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units, which shows a division...
• Section 8763.
  The record of survey shall be a map, legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth,...
• Section 8764.
  The record of survey shall show the applicable provisions of the following consistent with the purpose of the survey:(a) All monuments found, set, reset, replaced, or...
• Section 8764.5.
  Statements shall appear on the map as follows:Surveyor’s StatementThis map correctly represents a survey made by me or under my direction in conformance with the...
• Section 8765.
  A record of survey is not required of any survey:(a) When it has been made by a public officer in his or her official capacity and...
• Section 8766.
  (a) Within 20 working days after receiving the record of survey, or within the additional time as may be mutually agreed upon by the land surveyor...
• Section 8766.5.
  The county surveyor may charge a reasonable fee for examining a record of survey pursuant to Section 8766 which shall not exceed the cost of...
• Section 8767.
  If the county surveyor finds that the record of survey complies with the examination in Section 8766, the county surveyor shall endorse a statement on...
• Section 8768.
  If the matters appearing on the record of survey cannot be agreed upon by the licensed land surveyor or the registered civil engineer and the...
• Section 8768.5.
  If the county surveyor fails to timely file the record of survey with the county recorder in accordance with Section 8768, the licensed land surveyor...
• Section 8769.
  The charge for filing any record of survey, and for indexing the same, shall be the same as provided for subdivided land under Section 27372...
• Section 8770.
  The record of survey filed with the county recorder of any county shall be securely fastened by the county recorder into a suitable book provided...
• Section 8770.5.
  Any record of survey filed under the provisions of this chapter may be amended to show any course or distance that was omitted therefrom, or...
• Section 8770.6.
  The use of the word “certify” or “certification” by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer in the practice of professional engineering or land...
• Section 8771.
  (a) Monuments set shall be sufficient in number and durability and efficiently placed so as not to be readily disturbed, to ensure, together with monuments already...
• Section 8771.5.
  When coordinates in the California Coordinate System are shown for points on a record of survey map the map may not be recorded unless it...
• Section 8772.
  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...
• Section 8773.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 8773.4, a person authorized to practice land surveying in this state shall complete, sign, stamp with his...
• Section 8773.1.
  The board shall by regulation provide and prescribe the information which shall be necessary to be included in the corner record and the board shall...
• Section 8773.2.
  (a) A “corner record” submitted to the county surveyor or engineer shall be examined by him or her for compliance with subdivision (d) of Section 8765...
• Section 8773.3.
  In every case where a corner record is filed pursuant to Section 8773, the licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer shall reconstruct or rehabilitate...
• Section 8773.4.
  (a) A corner record shall be signed by a licensed land surveyor or licensed civil engineer and stamped with his or her seal, or in the...
• Section 8774.
  (a) The right of entry upon or to real property to investigate and utilize boundary evidence, and to perform surveys, is a right of persons legally...
• Section 8774.5.
  (a) Upon the filing of a record of survey, amended record of survey, or certificate of correction for recordation pursuant to this chapter, the surveyor or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018