Section 310-A:74 Exemptions.
This subdivision shall not be construed to prevent or to affect:
I. The practice of land surveying principles by a licensed professional engineer which shall include those support surveying activities which may be required to aid, verify, or facilitate the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of engineering projects by persons licensed under this chapter, but shall exclude the surveying of real property for the establishment or reestablishment of land boundaries, rights-of-way, easements, and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of the public land survey system.
II. The work of an employee or a surveyor in training for a person holding a license under this subdivision, or an employee of a person practicing lawfully under paragraph I, done under the direct responsibility, checking, and supervision of a person holding a license under this subdivision or a person practicing lawfully under paragraph I;
III. The practice of officers and employees of the government of the United States while engaged within this state in the practice of land surveying for the government; or
IV. The practice of surveying principles necessary in carrying out forest management practices, including the remarking of established boundaries and the establishment of new interior boundaries of a forest property, but not to include the establishment of boundaries common to another owner where the corners or boundary is unknown.
V. Preparation of mortgage plot plans and mortgage inspection reports, provided that:
(a) Any drawings prepared in connection with such plans or reports shall include the conspicuously-placed legend in 24 point or larger type: ""This drawing is not a survey/For mortgage purposes only,'' or language which is substantially the same.
(b) Any such drawing shall not bear any professional seal.
Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:24. 1994, 358:9. 1995, 136:29, eff. July 23, 1995; 284:42, 56, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.