GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 999

Short Title:  Land Surveyors Entry on Land.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Ledbetter; and Blust.

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Referred to:  Judiciary.

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April 21, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE AUTHORITY OF LAND SURVEYORS TO ENTER ON LAND.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Chapter 89C of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 89C-29.  Entry on land by registered land surveyors; minimum access.
Registered land surveyors, the employees, and agents may enter onto the lands of others and carry with them their customary equipment for the geographical area concerned, to obtain the monumentation required and perform the minimum customary and necessary acts to perform the surveys of land.  The reasonable removal of undergrowth, brush, limbs from naturally occurring plants for sight lines and the marking of boundary trees and witness trees shall be considered normal and necessary actions under this section.  Landowners shall be held harmless to the registered land surveyor, his employees and agents, for injury to persons and equipment so long as that injury does not involve an otherwise unlawful or malicious activity."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.