North Carolina HB 435: McDowell/Burke Firing from Road.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 3
HOUSE BILL 435
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/2/25
Committee Substitute #2 Favorable 6/10/25

Short Title: Mod. Bd. of Eng'ers & Surveyors. (Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
March 19, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO UPDATE AND CLARIFY THE NORTH CAROLINA ENGINEERING AND 2
LAND SURVEYING ACT, MODIFYING LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS, BOARD 3
POWERS, DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES, AND OTHER PROVISIONS TO ENHANCE 4
PROFESSIONAL REGULATION AND PRACTICE. 5
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 6
SECTION 1.(a) Land Surveyor Intern Reenactment. – G.S. 89C-3(4) is reenacted as 7
it existed immediately before its repeal under Section 1(a) of S.L. 2022-1 and shall be recodified 8
as subdivision (4b) of that section to ensure the subdivisions of G.S. 89C-3 are listed in 9
alphabetical order and make any conforming changes in the General Statutes to reflect this 10
recodification. 11
SECTION 1.(b) G.S. 89C-13(b)(1) is reenacted as it existed immediately before its 12
repeal under Section 1(b) of S.L. 2022-1. 13
SECTION 1.(c) Applicability. – This section is effective retroactively to July 1, 14
2022, and applies to certificates or licenses issued on or after that date. 15
SECTION 2.(a) G.S. 89C-3 reads as rewritten: 16
"§ 89C-3. Definitions. 17
The following definitions apply in this Chapter: 18
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(7) Practice of land surveying. – 20
a. Providing professional services such as consultation, investigation, 21
testimony, evaluation, planning, mapping, assembling, and 22
interpreting reliable scientific measurements and information relative 23
to the location, size, shape, or physical features of the earth, 24
improvements on the earth, the space above the earth, or any part of 25
the earth, whether the gathering of information for the providing of 26
these services is accomplished by conventional ground measurements, 27
by aerial photography, by global positioning via satellites, or by a 28
combination of any of these methods, and the utilization and 29
development of these facts and interpretations into an orderly survey 30
map, plan, report, description, or project. The practice of land 31
surveying includes the following: 32
1. Locating, relocating, establishing, laying out, or retracing any 33
property line, easement, or boundary of any tract of land; 34

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2. Locating, relocating, establishing, or laying out the alignment 1
or elevation of any of the fixed works embraced within the 2
practice of professional engineering; 3
3. Making any survey for the subdivision of any tract of land, 4
including the topography, alignment and grades of streets and 5
incidental drainage within the subdivision, and the preparation 6
and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field note records, and 7
property descriptions that represent these surveys; 8
4. Determining, by the use of the principles of land surveying, the 9
position for any survey monument or reference point, or 10
setting, resetting, or replacing any survey monument or 11
reference point; 12
5. Determining the configuration or contour of the earth's surface 13
or the position of fixed objects on the earth's surface by 14
measuring lines and angles and applying the principles of 15
mathematics or photogrammetry; 16
6. Providing geodetic surveying which includes surveying for 17
determination of the size and shape of the earth both 18
horizontally and vertically and the precise positioning of points 19
on the earth utilizing angular and linear measurements through 20
spatially oriented spherical geometry; and 21
7. Creating, preparing, or modifying electronic or computerized 22
data, including land information systems and geographic 23
information systems relative to the performance of the practice 24
of land surveying.activities in sub-sub-subdivisions 1. through 25
6. of this sub-subdivision. 26
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SECTION 2.(b) G.S. 89C-13, as reenacted by Section 1(b) of this act, reads as 28
rewritten: 29
"§ 89C-13. General requirements for licensure. 30
(a) Engineer Intern. – To be certified as an engineer intern, an applicant shall (i) pass the 31
fundamentals of engineering examination and make application to the Board, (ii) be of good 32
character and reputation, (iii) submit three character references to the Board, one of whom is a 33
professional engineer, (iv) comply with the requirements of this Chapter, and (v) (iv) meet one 34
of the following requirements: 35
(1) Education. – Be a graduate of an EAC/ABET accredited engineering 36
curriculum or of a related science curriculum which has been approved by the 37
Board as being of satisfactory standing. 38
(2) Education and experience. – Be a graduate of an engineering curriculum or 39
related science curriculum of four years or more, other than curriculums 40
approved by the Board as being of satisfactory standing in subdivision (1) of 41
this subsection, and possess engineer