DC license

DC License Is By Endorsement

Download the following:

http://www.asisvcs.com/publications/pdf/680936.pdf

The NCEES website is funky tonight, so I Googled DC Surveyor.

They have a total of 21 licensed surveyors.

Paul in PA

DC License Is By Endorsement

> They have a total of 21 licensed surveyors.

Wrong. I would guess there are almost a hundred licensed surveyors in DC today, there are fewer (probably your 21 number) registered surveyors.

Originally all surveying in the District was done by the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia, a federal governmental position until home rule.

The DC surveyors office still has two functions that are solely with their purview and not performed by licensed surveyors. Surveys to Mark - an official boundary survey that basically established the final authoritative boundaries of a parcel; and wall reports - a series of official surveys during different phases of construction that relate the improvements to the boundaries.

Registered surveyor are surveyors who are already licensed in the District with at least 4 additional years of experience who are, in effect, agents of the DC Surveyor, and can perform these two tasks.

Surveyors are licensed by the District of Columbia Board of Professional Engineering, but are registered by the DC Surveyor

Do I have this right?

Twenty-one can do boundary surveys while the others can only do construction surveying.

I wrote a big long detailed response, but apparently I closed the preview window and didn't hit submit.

I ain't typing all that again, so drop me an email or give me a call on Monday (use the website link next to my name and call the Rockville, MD office) and I'll fill you in. Currently, I work almost exclusively in the District.

DC is so unique in its surveying practices, that you can really get into trouble fast if you haven't worked with someone experienced in the jurisdiction. Probably the only place int he US where a surveyors has to 1) ignore the lot sizes on subdivision plats and look to another set of records to find the real lot sizes and 2) statutorily has to prorate first, rather than as a last resort)

Do I have this right?

Nope.

Every licensed surveyor can do a boundary survey, registered surveyors have the authority to record their survey in the official survey records and have it become gospel.

Why is there a need for a difference?

I go out and do a survey as a licensed surveyor. I present this to my client.

A registered surveyor does the same thing. But, he can file his survey and I can't. That makes no sense whatsoever without more explanation.

Does this mean I can only search for what already exists but can't establish anything new? Can I set a monument to replace one that is missing? This sounds like telling a licensed hand surgeon he can only work on fingers but not thumbs. To do surgery on thumbs you must be a registered hand surgeon.

Cow

It looks like once you set the history lesson to the side, disregard all the formalities, it is essentially by extension, an act of Congress to get registered in the D.C.

They'll likely have some archaic civil code or statutes regarding free roaming livestock or cattle in the D.C. area. 🙂

"Probably the only place int he US where a surveyors has to 1) ignore the lot sizes on subdivision plats and look to another set of records to find the real lot sizes"

I think someone in the NYC area mentioned differing index values.

Cow

It must be quite evident that livestock are welcomed in D.C. How else could they keep themselves so buried in BS?