BILL NUMBER: AB 1341	CHAPTERED  07/14/99

	CHAPTER   125
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 14, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 14, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JULY 6, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 14, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Granlund

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to amend Section 8730 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to land surveyors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1341, Granlund.  Land surveying.
   Existing law, the Professional Land Surveyors' Act, defines the
practice of land surveying for purposes of licensing and regulation,
and exempts certain persons, including certain state and local public
employees, as specified, from these licensing and regulatory
provisions.
   This bill would additionally exempt any state, county, city, or
city and county public safety employee investigating any crime or
infraction for the purpose of determining or prosecuting a crime or
infraction.  It would also provide that the exemption shall not
permit a public safety employee to offer or perform land surveying
for any purpose other than determining or prosecuting a crime or
infraction.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 8730 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   8730.  The following persons are not required to be licensed under
this chapter:
   (a) Officers and employees of the United States of America,
practicing solely as those officers or employees, except when
surveying the exterior boundaries of federal lands in this state.
   (b) Insofar as he or she acts in the following capacity:
   (1) Any state, county, city, city and county, or district employee
directly responsible to a licensed land surveyor or registered civil
engineer.
   (2) Any subordinate to a land surveyor or civil engineer licensed
or registered as required by the laws of this state insofar as he or
she acts as a subordinate.
   (c) Any officer or employee of an electric, gas, or telephone
corporation, as defined in Sections 218, 222, and 234, respectively,
of the Public Utilities Code, with annual revenues of twenty-five
million dollars ($25,000,000) or more, whenever he or she prepares a
legal description of an easement for utility distribution lines and
service facilities, provided the following conditions are met:
   (1) Each description identifies the corporation that prepared the
description and states that it was prepared pursuant to this
exemption.
   (2) Each corporation has in its employ, or on contract, an
individual authorized to practice land surveying who shall be
responsible for establishing criteria for determining the
qualifications of technical specialists preparing those legal
descriptions, specifying the format and information to be shown on
maps or documents containing those descriptions, and capable of
answering questions regarding the preparation of those descriptions.

   (d) Any state, county, city, or city and county public safety
employee investigating any crime or infraction for the purpose of
determining or prosecuting a crime or infraction.  This exemption
shall not permit a public safety employee to offer or perform land
surveying as defined in Section 8726 for any purpose other than
determining or prosecuting a crime or infraction.