Florida Statute 472.005 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 472
LAND SURVEYING AND MAPPING

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F.S. 472.005

472.005 Definitions.—As used in ss. 472.001-472.037:

(1) “Board” means the Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers.

(2) “Department” means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

(3) “Surveyor and mapper” includes the term “professional surveyor and mapper” and means a person who is registered to engage in the practice of surveying and mapping under ss. 472.001-472.037. For the purposes of this statute, a surveyor and mapper means a person who determines and displays the facts of size, shape, topography, tidal datum planes, legal or geodetic location or relation, and orientation of improved or unimproved real property through direct measurement or from certifiable measurement through accepted photogrammetric procedures.

(4)(a) “Practice of surveying and mapping” means, among other things, any professional service or work, the adequate performance of which involves the application of special knowledge of the principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences, and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence of the act of measuring, locating, establishing, or reestablishing lines, angles, elevations, natural and manmade features in the air, on the surface and immediate subsurface of the earth, within underground workings, and on the beds or surface of bodies of water, for the purpose of determining, establishing, describing, displaying, or interpreting the facts of size, volume, shape, topography, tidal datum planes, and legal or geodetic location or relocation.

(b) The practice of surveying and mapping also includes, but is not limited to, photogrammetric control; orientation of improved or unimproved real property and appurtenances and personal property attached thereto, including acreage and condominiums; the monumentation and remonumentation of property boundaries and subdivisions; the measurement of and preparation of plans showing existing improvements after construction; the layout of proposed improvements; the preparation of descriptions for use in legal instruments of conveyance of real property and property rights; the preparation of subdivision planning maps and record plats, as provided for in chapter 177; the determination of, but not the design of, grades and elevations of roads and land in connection with subdivisions or divisions of land; and the creation and perpetuation of alignments related to maps, record plats, field note records, reports, property descriptions, and plans and drawings that represent them.

(5) The term “surveyor and mapper intern” includes the term “surveyor-mapper-in-training” and means a person who complies with the requirements provided by ss. 472.001-472.037 and who has passed an examination as provided by rules adopted by the board.

(6) The term “responsible charge” means direct control and personal supervision of surveying and mapping work, but does not include experience as a chainperson, rodperson, instrumentperson, ordinary draftsperson, digitizer, scriber, photo lab technician, ordinary stereo plotter operator, aerial photo pilot, photo interpreter, and other positions of routine work.

(7) The term “license” means a registration, certificate, or license issued by the department pursuant to this chapter.

(8) “Photogrammetrist” means any person who engages in the practice of surveying and mapping using aerial or terrestrial photography or other sources of images.

(9) “Employee” means a person who receives compensation from and is under the supervision and control of an employer who regularly deducts the F.I.C.A. and withholding tax and provides workers’ compensation, all as prescribed by law.

(10) “Subordinate” means a person who performs work under the direction, supervision, and responsible charge of a person who is registered under this chapter.

(11) “Monument” means an artificial or natural object that is permanent or semipermanent and used or presumed to occupy any real property corner, any point on a boundary line, or any reference point or other point to be used for horizontal or vertical control.

(12) “Legal entity” means a corporation, partnership, association, or person practicing under a fictitious name who is certified under s. 472.021.

(13) “Retired professional surveyor and mapper” means a person who has been licensed as a professional surveyor and mapper by the board and who chooses to relinquish or not to renew his or her license and applies to and is approved by the board to use the title “Professional Surveyor and Mapper, Retired.”

(14) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Agriculture.

(15) “Consumer member” means a person appointed to serve on the board who is not, and never has been, a professional surveyor or mapper in any jurisdiction or a member of any closely related profession regulated by the board.

(16) “Licensee” means any person or business entity that has been issued, pursuant to this chapter, a registration, certificate, or license by the department.

History.—ss. 21, 42, ch. 79-243; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 48, ch. 83-329; ss. 5, 7, ch. 89-137; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 85, ch. 94-119; s. 153, ch. 94-218; s. 5, ch. 2001-63; s. 2, ch. 2002-41; s. 4, ch. 2005-129; s. 3, ch. 2009-66; s. 3, ch. 2012-67; s. 3, ch. 2017-85.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 472.005

Total Results: 12

Bischoff v. Walker

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2013-02-08T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 107 So. 3d 1165, 2013 WL 461805, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 2003

Snippet: used in describing land, is defined in section 472.005(11), Florida Statutes (2011), as meaning an artificial

Estate of Rocks v. McLaughlin Engineering Co.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2010-12-01T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 49 So. 3d 823, 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 18318, 2010 WL 4861684

Snippet: regulation and licen-sure of surveyors. See e.g. § 472.005(3), Fla. Stat. (1994) (term “Land Surveyor” includes… Chapter 472, Florida Statutes (1981). Section 472.005 includes the following definition: (4)(a) ‘Practice

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1991-07-12T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: rulemaking authority. 1 Section 472.005(4)(a), F.S. 2 Section 472.005(4)(b), F.S. 3 See, Department of

Board of Trustees, Internal Imp. Trust Fund v. Bd. of Professional Land Surveyors

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1990-09-13T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 566 So. 2d 1358

Snippet: of land surveying" is defined by section 472.005(4)(a), Florida Statutes as follows: Any professional

Rivers v. Lozeau

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1989-02-22T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 539 So. 2d 1147

Snippet: denied, 441 So.2d 633 (Fla. 1983). [5] See § 472.005(3), Fla. Stat. [6] This is a most important qualification

Dept. of Prof. Reg. v. SOC. PROF. LAND SUR.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1985-09-04T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 475 So. 2d 939

Snippet: constitute land surveying as defined in section 472.005(4), Florida Statutes (1983), that may be lawfully…surveying" as that term is defined in section 472.005(4)(a). Thus, appellees argue, such grant of rulemaking…definition of "land surveying" in section 472.005, even though such services are merely incidental…definition of "land surveyor" in section 472.005. We simply cannot discern any overt legislative

Department of Professional Regulation, Board of Professional Engineers v. Florida Society of Professional Land Surveyors

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1985-09-04T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 475 So. 2d 939, 10 Fla. L. Weekly 2081, 1985 Fla. App. LEXIS 15739

Snippet: constitute land surveying as defined in section 472.005(4), Florida Statutes (1983), that may be lawfully… surveying” as that term is defined in section 472.005(4)(a). Thus, ap-pellees argue, such grant of rulemaking… the definition of “land surveying” in section 472.005, even though such services are merely incidental…statutory definition of “land surveyor” in section 472.005. We simply cannot discern any overt legislative

FORESIGHT ENTER. v. Leisure Time Prop.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1985-02-20T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 466 So. 2d 283

Snippet: Company, Inc.; Evans; C. McCormick, supra, at pp. 472-5. Accordingly, the damage figure should have been

Cristich v. Allen Engineering, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1984-10-31T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 458 So. 2d 76

Snippet: Chapter 472, Florida Statutes (1981). Section 472.005 includes the following definition: (4)(a) `Practice

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1984-06-29T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: DEFINITION OF "LAND SURVEYING" CONTAINED IN s 472.005, F.S., REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED PURSUANT TO s 472.015…violate any provision of that section. Section 472.005(4)(a) and (b) set forth an extremely broad and …open-ended definition of land surveying contained in s 472.005(4)(a) and (b), indicates to me that the Legislature…the practice of land surveying as defined by s 472.005(4) without regard to whom the employer of that …employees who practice land surveying, as defined in s 472.005(4)(a) and (b), are required to be licensed pursuant

Brown v. Brown

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1974-09-10T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 300 So. 2d 719

Snippet: to be regarded. 2 Hag.Con., 199, 201; 3 Hag.Ec., 472; 5 Eng.Ec., 186; 2 Phillim., 40. "But this is

Phelan v. Phelan

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1868-07-01T00:00:02-07:52:58

Citation: 12 Fla. 449

Snippet: he regarded. 2 Hag. Con., 199, 201; 3 Hag. Ec., 472; 5 Eng. Ec., 186; 2 Phillim., 40. But this is not