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California Question Re. PE Act 6731.1, and Civil Engineers Doing Work Traditionally Reserved for Land Surveyors
I am a land surveyor in California and have become interested in the change a number of years ago to the Professional Engineers Act, which appears to allow Civil Engineers to do a number of things, under the heading of ƒ??Engineering Surveyingƒ?? which were traditionally the ƒ??turfƒ?? of land surveyors. I am referring to section 6731.1 of the California PE Act (2022).
Surveyors still have the exclusive right to define boundaries and, oddly, GPS. However, I do not see a corresponding item in the California Professional Land Surveyorsƒ?? Act which would allow this traditionally land surveyorƒ??s work, such as construction staking, topographic mapping, volume surveys, etc., to be done by Civil Engineers. Also, how can construction staking be done by a someone who is not trained in boundary analysis, like land surveyors? Eventually, even with construction staking, you typically get to a boundary line.
Has this actually gone to court? How has this been addressed in practice? I have seen some older communication regarding this matter on this site, but was wondering what the current thinking was.
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