When did Texas change from "Registered Public Land Surveyors" to "Registered Professional Land Surveyors" someone asked and I'm not sure but I think it was late 80's?
In March 1989 TBLS newsletter is says Senate Bill 795 makes the change from public to professional.
Kevin Olson, post: 421991, member: 9979 wrote: In March 1989 TBLS newsletter is says Senate Bill 795 makes the change from public to professional.
Thanks, I've got both certificates on the wall but they both have original registration date.
I always thought it was PLS to RPLS.
Andy Nold, post: 421994, member: 7 wrote: I always thought it was PLS to RPLS.
Registered Public Surveyor according to the "olde certificate" on the wall
That's cool, you didn't need to change the acronym
It was Registered Public Surveyor to Registered Professional Land Surveyor.
We can thank the engineers for that one as result of their lobby action for their BOR to be in control of surveyors.
the 10+yr battle began after Sunset Commission being empowered to regulate governmental oversight agencies and to combine them into groups with less people on the hill.
Senate Bill 795 solved several lines of thought:
Surveyors are a professional group of our own
that we have our own BOR
and that we were the only licensed group that could legally survey land boundaries in Texas.
I have a license and a stamp for both.
The only difference is the name of the Chairman of the Board.
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David C. Newell RPLS LS CFM, post: 421989, member: 6347 wrote: When did Texas change from "Registered Public Land Surveyors" to "Registered Professional Land Surveyors" someone asked and I'm not sure but I think it was late 80's?
The earlier term was actually "Registered Public Surveyor". As I recall, the law that altered the title of registrants to "Registered Professional Land Surveyors" took effect in 1988 (but that's without cheating and checking my notes).