Nevada § 625.040 - “Practice of land surveying” defined

§ 625.040. “Practice of land surveying” defined

1. A person who, in a private or public capacity, does or offers to do any one or

more of the following practices land surveying: (a) Locates, relocates, establishes, re-establishes or retraces any property line

or boundary of any tract of land or any road, right-of-way, easement, alignment or

elevation of any of the fixed works embraced within the practice of professional engineering

as described in NRS 625.050 . (b) Makes any survey for the subdivision or resubdivision of any tract of land. (c) Determines, by the use of the principles of land surveying, the position for any

monument or reference point which marks a property line, boundary or corner, or sets,

resets or replaces any such monument or reference point. (d) Determines the configuration or contour of the earth's surface or the position

of fixed objects thereon by measuring lines and angles and applying the principles

of trigonometry. (e) Geodetic or cadastral surveying. (f) Municipal and topographic surveying. (g) Determines the information shown or to be shown on any map or document prepared

or furnished in connection with any one or more of the functions described in paragraphs

(a) to (f), inclusive. (h) Indicates in any manner, by the use of the title “land surveyor,” or by any other

representation, that the person practices or offers to practice land surveying. (i) Procures or offers to procure land-surveying work for others or for himself or

herself. (j) Manages or conducts as manager, proprietor or agent any place from which land-surveying

work is solicited, performed or practiced. 2. A person practices land surveying if the person professes to be a land surveyor

or is in a responsible charge of land-surveying work. 3. Making a survey exclusively for geological or landscaping purposes, or aerial photographs

or photogrammetry, not involving any of the practices specified in subsection 1, does

not constitute land surveying. 4. The practice of land surveying does not include the design, either in whole or

in part, of any structure or fixed works embraced in the practice of professional

engineering.