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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62825</law_id><section_number>54.1-408</section_number><catch_line>Practice of land surveying; subdivisions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-2263</reference><reference>15.2-851</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Professions and Occupations Regulated by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Boards Within the Department</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Architects, Engineers, Surveyors, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Landscape Architects</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In addition to the work defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-400/">54.1-400</a>, a <span class="dictionary">land surveyor</span> may, for subdivisions, site plans and plans of development only, prepare plats, plans and profiles for roads, storm drainage systems, sanitary sewer extensions, and water line extensions, and may perform other engineering incidental to such work, but excluding the design of pressure hydraulic, structural, mechanical, and electrical systems. The work included in this section shall involve the use and application of standards prescribed by local or state authorities. The <span class="dictionary">land surveyor</span> shall pass an examination given by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> in addition to that required for the licensing of <span class="dictionary">land surveyors</span> as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-400/">54.1-400</a>. Any <span class="dictionary">land surveyor</span> previously licensed pursuant to subdivision (3) (b) of former &#xA7;&#xA0;54-17.1 may continue to do the work herein described without further examination.
		Except as provided, nothing contained herein or in the definition of &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">practice of land surveying</span>&#x201D; in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-400/">54.1-400</a> shall be construed to include engineering design and the preparation of plans and specifications for construction.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 671, &#xA7; 54-17.1; 1974, c. 534; 1980, c. 757; 1982, c. 590; 1984, c. 437; 1988, c. 765.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
