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Florida. See chapter 472, Fla. Stat., F.S.A. Section 472.01(3) generally defines land surveyor as one who
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....015 , F.S.? Chapter 472 , F.S., regulates the practice of land surveying in the State of Florida, together with the administrative rules adopted pursuant to that chapter by the Board of Professional Land Surveyors, Ch. 21HH-1 through 21HH-8, F.A.C. Section
472.001 , F.S., sets forth as the legislative intent and purposes of Ch. 472, the following statement: The Legislature finds that improper land surveying of land, water, and space presents a significant threat to the public and therefore deems it necessary to regulate land surveyors as provided in ss.
472.001 -472.039. (e.s.) Section
472.031 (1)(a), F.S., provides "No person shall: [p]ractice land surveying unless such person is registered pursuant to ss.
472.001 -472.039[.]" Subsection (2) makes it a misdemeanor of the first degree to violate any provision of that section....
...accuracy, completeness, and quality in order to assure adequate and defensible real property boundary locations and other pertinent information provided by land surveyors. . . ." This provision, read in pari materia with the legislative intent in s
472.001 , the language of s
472.031 (1)(a) and (2) and the extremely broad and open-ended definition of land surveying contained in s
472.005 (4)(a) and (b), indicates to me that the Legislature intended to regulate all persons who engage in the prac...
...n on the sovereign itself . . . ." page 556 (e.s.) Moreover, this treatise also says that the general rule has been relaxed in modern times, and has been declared not to apply to statutes made for the public good, or the prevention of injury. Cf., s 472.001 , F.S....
...472 so as to exempt state employees from its licensing provisions, since (1) by the terms of s
472.031 the law applies to "persons" — the agents of the state or its employees — not to the state itself and (2) Ch. 472 is a statute enacted for the public welfare and to prevent injury, in light of s
472.001 , and Rule 21HH-1.01, F.A.C., which notes the Board was established "to protect the health and safety of the people of the State of Florida through the regulation of the practice of land surveying." (e.s.) Compare, AGO 50-235, May 10, 1950, Biennial Report of the Attorney General, 1949-1950, p....
