Seal of the Georgia Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Board.

The Georgia General Assembly created the Georgia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in 1937 to ensure protection of life, health, property and promoting public welfare. The Board has the power to adopt rules, set standards for licensure, adopt mandatory standards of professional conduct and ethics, and investigate and discipline unauthorized,…

Georgia state map with surveying compass and directional markers.

The Surveying and Mapping Society of Georgia is the state’s primary professional association for land surveyors. Its roots go back to a 1947 organizing meeting of 33 surveyors at Georgia Tech, which formed the Georgia Association of Registered Land Surveyors; the group became the Georgia Association of Registered Professional Land Surveyors in 1964 and took…