LAC 46:LXI.2901. Scope and Purpose

A. The following standards of practice for boundary surveying in Louisiana have been adopted to help ensure that boundary surveys are performed in accordance with acceptable procedures. B. The purpose of these standards of practice is to safeguard life, health and property, and to promote the public welfare, by establishing technical standards of practice for every boundary survey performed in Louisiana so that professional performance can be evaluated for but not limited to research, field work, monuments, descriptions, plats and maps. If higher standards are required by clients, or by local, state and federal jurisdictions, then those standards shall govern. When a boundary survey involves certain corners or lines that are covered under the appropriate edition of the Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States, then the manual’s rules or instructions for these particular surveys shall apply. Every professional land surveyor performing a boundary survey in Louisiana is required to follow these standards. C. A boundary survey in Louisiana shall only be performed by a professional land surveyor, licensed pursuant to the laws of Louisiana, or persons under his/her responsible charge. The professional land surveyor shall at all times comply with the provisions of the licensure law and the rules of the board. D. It is intended that these standards of practice not be relied upon by the professional land surveyor as a substitute for the exercise of proper individual skill, professional discretion, and professional judgment in fulfilling the contractual requirements of any boundary survey. This also does not absolve the professional land surveyor from his/her obligation to use due diligence in the practice of land surveying and from complying with all applicable laws and rules pertaining to the practice of land surveying. E. When in the professional land surveyor's opinion, special conditions exist that effectively prevent the boundary survey from meeting these standards of practice, the special conditions and any necessary deviation from these standards shall be noted upon the drawing. It shall be a violation of this Chapter to use special conditions to circumvent the intent and purpose of these standards of practice.