Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...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....

...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 practice of land surveying as de...

...t to the administration and enforcement of Ch. 472 , F.S. Thus, it is my view that the general rule stated above should not apply to a construction of Ch. 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....