Land Surveyor Forum

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• Land Surveyor

  DEWARD BOWLES November 3, 2014 at 7:30pm

  Kevin I think the operative phrase here is "survey measurements shall be made with equipment and methods of practice capable of attaining the accuracy and tolerances required by the professional service being performed."
  
  What they are saying is that if your client comes to you and wants a boundary survey then you had better be able to prove you can make your measurements accurately enough that your client can rely on them. Otherwise you are violating the rules. If your client comes to you and wants you to stake out a pit for grenade practice then the same applies. The Board presumes you know what you are doing and are trying to get away from imposing arbitrary rules that don't apply for you.
• Land Surveyor

  DEWARD BOWLES November 1, 2014 at 10:34am

  I am not sure what your question pertains specifically to.  Texas Land Surveyors are regulated by the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying under the Professional Land Surveying Practices Act.
  
  

  The Board sets down bylaws that they periodically update. Some of the "rules" regarding specific minimum closures of Land Surveyors' work has been removed in the last few years. Currently it stands as follows....
  
  

  RULE §663.15	Precision and Accuracy

  Survey measurements shall be made with equipment and methods of practice capable of attaining the accuracy and tolerances required by the professional land surveying services being performed. Areas, if reported, shall be produced, recited, and/or shown only to the least significant number compatible with the precision of closure. ____________________________________________ It is subjective at this point and there are some looking hard at this question right now.
  • Land Surveyor

    Kevin K. Whitley > DEWARD BOWLES November 3, 2014 at 2:19pm

    I was wondering along the lines of:  Are we required to send our instruments in for a calibration check on any certain time frame even though we are not having any trouble with closures (at least not because of the instrument)?  Right now we take ours in bi-annually to have the calibration checked, but I was considering stretching that out to possibly annually.