From the DIRT Board:
Dirters:
I have clients very interested in buying a nine acre lot near Sunday River, Maine (the land is across the valley in Newry). They need an engineer to help them locate lot lines (the subdivider has a survey), assess utilities, consider building site, etc. Suggestions (preferably off-line: sca@scandersonlaw.com ) would be appreciated.
Thanks for your help.
Steve Anderson
DEREK G. GRAHAM OLS OLIP, post: 360065, member: 285 wrote: From the DIRT Board:
Dirters:
I have clients very interested in buying a nine acre lot near Sunday River, Maine (the land is across the valley in Newry). They need an engineer to help them locate lot lines (the subdivider has a survey), assess utilities, consider building site, etc. Suggestions (preferably off-line: sca@scandersonlaw.com ) would be appreciated.
Thanks for your help.
Steve Anderson
No.
From 18201
4. Land surveying. "Land surveying" means any service or work involving the application of special knowledge of the rules of evidence and boundary laws, principles of mathematics and the related physical and applied sciences for measuring and locating lines, angles, elevations and natural and man-made features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings and on the beds of bodies of water. This service or work is for the purposes of determining areas and volumes, for the monumenting of property boundaries and for the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions of land, including topography, alignment and grades of streets and for the preparation and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field note records and property descriptions that represent these surveys.
A person practices or offers to practice land surveying within the meaning and intent of this chapter if that person engages in land surveying or by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way makes a representation that the person is a professional land surveyor or makes a representation that the person is able to perform or does perform any land surveying service or work or any other service designated by the practitioner that is recognized as land surveying.
From 18202
Except as provided in section 18203, it is unlawful for a person to practice land surveying or advertise or offer to practice land surveying without a license issued under this chapter.
18203
1. Other professions. A person licensed in this State under any other provision of law from engaging in the practice for which the person is licensed;
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2. Federal Government employees. An officer or employee of the Federal Government while engaged within this State in the practice of land surveying for the Federal Government;
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3. Interstate commerce corporation employees. An officer or employee of a corporation engaged in interstate commerce as defined in the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to Regulate Commerce" approved February 4, 1887, as amended, or in interstate communication as defined in the Act of Congress entitled "Communications Act of 1934" approved June 9, 1934, while working solely as an employee of that corporation, as long as an officer or employee of that corporation customarily in responsible charge of the surveying work of that corporation within this State is licensed under this chapter; or
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4. Unlicensed person. A person working under the responsible charge of a professional land surveyor.
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So, construction staking and design work is OK, right?
Well they did (parenthetically) say that the subdivider has a survey. I suspect that the subdivision is to the nearest tenth of a foot, and they are having the engineers come in to nail the lot lines down to the mearest thousandth.
DEREK G. GRAHAM OLS OLIP, post: 360065, member: 285 wrote: Dirters:
I have clients very interested in buying a nine acre lot near Sunday River, Maine (the land is across the valley in Newry). They need an engineer to help them locate lot lines (the subdivider has a survey), assess utilities, consider building site, etc. Suggestions (preferably off-line: sca@scandersonlaw.com ) would be appreciated.
Thanks for your help.
Steve Anderson
The "clients" need services of an engineer to "access utilities, consider building site, etc.". I would presume that said engineer would point out to the "clients" that they will also need the services of a land surveyor for items beyond their field.
I see nothing wrong in that announcement of services needed.
