COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 251
(By Senators Sypolt and Bowman)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported February 8, 2008.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §7-2-8; and to amend
and reenact §30-13A-36 of said code, all relating to
surveyors; and requiring each county surveyor of lands to be
a licensed surveyor after a date certain.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §7-2-8; and that §30-
13A-36 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as
follows:
CHAPTER 7. COUNTY COMMISSIONS AND OFFICERS.
ARTICLE 2. COUNTY AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES; CHANGE OF COUNTY SEAT
AND NAMES OF UNINCORPORATED TOWNS AND OF DISTRICTS; COUNTY
SURVEYOR.
§7-2-8. License required for county surveyor.
After the first day of January, two thousand nine, each county surveyor of lands elected or appointed pursuant to the provisions
section one, article IX of the West Virginia Constitution shall be
a surveyor licensed pursuant to the provisions of article thirteen-
A, chapter thirty of this code and such licensee shall be in good
standing.
CHAPTER 30. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
ARTICLE 13A. LAND SURVEYORS.
§30-13A-36. Exemption from licensing and regulation.
(a) The following persons are exempt from licensing and
regulation under the provisions of this article:
(1) Any employee
or agent of a person, firm, association or
corporation when such employee
or agent is engaged in the practice
of land surveying exclusively for the person, firm, association or
corporation by which employed or, if a corporation, its parents,
affiliates or subsidiaries, and such person, firm, association or
corporation does not hold himself, herself or itself out to the
public as being engaged in the business of land surveying.
(2) Any employee or officer of the United States, this state
or any political subdivision thereof
or their agents, when such
employee is engaged in the practice of land surveying exclusively
for such governmental unit
: Provided, That after the first day of
January, two thousand nine, each county surveyor of lands elected
or appointed pursuant to the provisions of section one, article IX
of the West Virginia Constitution shall be a surveyor licensed
pursuant to the provisions of this article and such licensee shall be in good standing.
(b) The minimum standards for boundary surveys contained in
section twenty-six of this article apply, notwithstanding the
exemptions provided by this section.