2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 73 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS
Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors.
73-13-71 - Definitions.

§ 73-13-71. Definitions.
 

(1)  The term "board," as used in Sections 73-13-71 through 73-13-105, shall mean the Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors as provided for in Section 73-13-5 of this chapter. 

(2)  The term "professional surveyor," as used in Sections 73-13-71 through 73-13-105, shall mean a person who engages in the practice of surveying as hereinafter defined, whether in an individual capacity, or in behalf of or as an employee of any state, county or municipal authority of the State of Mississippi. 

(3)  The term "surveyor intern," as used in Sections 73-13-71 through 73-13-105, shall mean a candidate for licensure as a professional surveyor who has successfully passed the fundamentals of land surveying examination, has met the requirements of the board for enrollment, has received from the board a certificate stating that he has successfully passed this portion of the professional land surveying examinations and has been enrolled as a surveyor intern. 

(4)  The practice of " surveying," within the meaning and intent of Sections 73-13-71 through 73-13-105, shall mean providing professional services such as consultation, investigation, testimony evaluation, expert technical testimony, planning, mapping, assembling and interpreting reliable scientific measurement and information relative to the location, size, shape or physical features of the earth, improvements on the earth, the space above the earth, or any part of the earth, utilization and development of these facts and interpretation into an orderly survey map, plan or report and in particular, the retracement of or the creating of land boundaries and descriptions of real property. 
 

The practice of surveying includes, but is not limited to, any one or more of the following: 

(a) Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing, laying out or retracing any property boundary or easement. 

(b) Making any survey for the subdivision of any tract of land, including rights-of-way and easements. 

(c) Determining, by the use of principles of surveying, the position for any survey monument or reference point; or setting, resetting or replacing any such monument or reference point, commonly known as control surveys. 

(d) Creating, preparing or modifying electronic or computerized data, including land information systems and geographic information systems, relative to the performance of the activities in the above-described paragraphs (a) through (c). 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8792-01; Laws,  1962, ch. 505, § 1; reenacted, 1983, ch. 450, § 24; reenacted and amended, 1991, ch. 470, § 24; reenacted without change, Laws, 1999, ch. 416, § 24; reenacted and amended, Laws, 1999, ch. 534, § 24; reenacted and amended, Laws, 2004, ch. 586, § 24, eff from and after July 1, 2004.