A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require that state agencies utilize a licensed land surveyor when marking the boundaries of state‑owned land.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 146‑33 reads as rewritten:
"§ 146‑33.  State agencies to locate and mark boundaries of lands.
Every State agency shall locate and identify, and shall mark and keep marked, the boundaries of all lands allocated to that agency or under its control. The Department of Administration shall locate and identify, and mark and keep marked, the boundaries of all State lands not allocated to or under the control of any other State agency. The chief administrative officer of every State agency is authorized to contract with the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety for the furnishing, upon such conditions as may be agreed upon from time to time between the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety and the chief administrative officer of that agency, of prison labor for use where feasible in the performance of these duties. The location, identification, and marking of boundaries of State lands pursuant to this section shall be conducted under the supervision of a professional land surveyor licensed under Chapter 89C of the General Statutes."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.