Florida Statute 472.027 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 472
LAND SURVEYING AND MAPPING

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472.027 Standards of practice.—The board shall adopt rules establishing standards of practice for the profession of surveying and mapping to:

(1) Assure competence in the practice of the profession;

(2) Assure accuracy, completeness, and quality in the products provided;

(3) Assure adequate and defensible real property boundary locations; and

(4) Govern the following professional matters:

(a) Conflicts of interest.

(b) Client confidentiality.

(d) Fair dealing in all professional relationships and private and public sector contracts.

(e) Retention of work products in hard copy or electronic or digital formats.

(f) Transfer and storage of files and file materials upon discontinuance of the practice of surveying and mapping.

History.—ss. 36, 42, ch. 79-243; s. 344, ch. 81-259; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 5, 7, ch. 89-137; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 93, ch. 94-119; s. 10, ch. 2001-63; s. 1, ch. 2014-147.

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Bd. of Trs., Internal Imp. Trust Fund v. Bd. of Prof'l Land Surveyors, 566 So. 2d 1358 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1990 WL 133202

...plemented, such infractions are among those requiring a conclusion that the proposed rule is an invalid exercise of delegated legislative authority. s. 120.52, F.S. The statute upon which the Board of Surveyors relied for its rulemaking authority is section 472.027, Florida Statutes....

...above statutes is to promulgate rules which provide "minimum technical standards" to ensure that surveys are accurately measured, complete, and of sufficient quality in those respects to provide legally defensible real property boundaries. Although section 472.027, Florida Statutes, may authorize a rule directing a surveyor to measure the placement or reach of water and to record that location and the time that the measurement was taken, we do not read that statute to provide a predicate for th...

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Est. of Rocks v. McLaughlin Eng'g Co., 49 So. 3d 823 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 18318, 2010 WL 4861684

...The second cause of action, negligence per se, alleges that each defendant’s performance as a surveyor for clients consisted of the same failures alleged in the negligence counts; that their performance fell below the minimum standards for surveying and mapping authorized by § 472.027, Florida Statutes; and that each defendant is personally liable for negligence per se for the failure to perform according to those minimum standards, and for misconduct or wrongful acts committed in the performance of surveying....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1991).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

the requirements in Part II, Ch. 177, F.S. Section 472.027, F.S., authorizes the Board of Professional

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