Absolutely right - the only thing to go by is effective date. Often there's a time period after signing, where regulations have to be developed on ho...
Gunt...There are definitely a slew of issues involved - I believe a lot of the investigators typically come from a background of state, municipal or ...
All of this a result of the land surveying community being entirely too quiet, fragmented, and without a unified front.
I'm skeptical about self-regulation. Professional societies serve to protect the profession, not the public, so there is an inherent conflict of inte...
Part of me wonders if this deregulation move is the complete disaster we need to wake everyone up and get a fresh start.
Don't get me wrong, some of those other occupations I could agree with deregulating. Maybe there is some nuance unknown to me, or maybe once upon a t...
Ridiculous that they would be going after BORs, then - It's my understanding that most BORs are either self-sustaining and budget-neutral, if not actu...
Quite a few civil engineering programs no longer even offer surveying courses - not to mention, surveying really not being part of the education, expe...
Ethics - Take Colorado for exampleApples and oranges.I think real estate and many other regulated occupations such as barbers and cosmetologists have ...
Gunt...Again, problem is that so much of it is not up to Board members to change. More often than not, the legislation itself would have to change to...
Gunt...> Evan has personally fought the unlicensed practice battle.That's excellent... I was just pointing out that in some cases BORs have very l...
> Some won't turn others in because they think it makes them a snitch rather than a responsible professional protecting the profession and protecti...
> It's the Democrats that sold the Surveyor grade GPS frequency bands to the highest bidder, Lightsquared Inc. Deep pockets...That's not entirely t...
Mr. ChainWell, so will the opinion of the GISer with several years of experience. To a court full of laymen, they won't know or care about the differ...
As I understand it, the federal surveyor license a.) only has limited applicability in the first place and b.) is pegged to an underlying requirement ...
It's not at all absurd. Their mandate and duty is to uphold the law, whatever it is, and regardless of what's on the floor of the House, right up unt...
I don't think the surveying profession has advanced in terms of ethics. Surveyors will generally not turn in a fellow surveyor even if they know he i...
If there's no longer professional status, then a surveyor's opinion in a boundary conflict matter will also apparently be meaningless in court.All dow...
ButchWelcome to Beautiful Sunny Deregulated Florida, A.D. 2012. "The Wild West of Property Boundaries".