Section 310-A:54 Definitions.
As used in this subdivision:
I. ""Board'' means the state board of licensure for land surveyors.
I-a. ""Business organization'' means any enterprise, whether corporation, partnership, limited liability company, proprietorship, association, business trust, real estate trust or other form of organization; organized for gain or profit, carrying on any business activity within the state.
I-b. ""Certificate of authorization'' means any certificate issued by the board to a business organization to engage in the practice of land surveying.
II. A ""land surveyor'' is a professional specialist in the technique of measuring land, educated in the basic principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences, and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence and all requisite to the surveying of real property and engaged in the practice of land surveying as herein defined.
III. ""Land surveyor-in-training'' means a candidate for licensure as a land surveyor who, prior to completion of the requisite years of experience in surveying work provided in RSA 310-A:63, has met the preliminary requirements for licensure as a land surveyor, and has been issued a certificate by the board stating that such candidate is a land surveyor-in-training.
IV. ""Practice of land surveying'' means any 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 to the act of measuring and locating lines, angles, elevations, natural and man-made features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings, and on the beds of bodies of water for the purpose of determining areas and volumes, for the monumenting of property boundaries and for the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions of land, including the topography alignment and grades of streets and for the preparation and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field note records and property descriptions that represent these surveys.
Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:16. 1994, 358:2. 1995, 136:20, eff. July 23, 1995; 284:34, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.