Georgia Code
Chapter 15 - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
§ 43-15-2. Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term:
(4.1) “Current license” means a license issued under Code Section 43-15-13 which has not expired or been revoked and the rights under which have not been suspended or otherwise restricted by the board.
(5.1) “Executive Director” means the executive director appointed by the Georgia Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Board pursuant to Code Section 43-15-3.
provided that the design of any storm-water management plans, facilities, water distribution lines, and sanitary sewer collection systems shall be performed only by such professional land surveyors who are qualified to do so as provided in Code Section 43-15-13.1;
History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 294, § 2; Ga. L. 1945, p. 294, § 4; Code 1933, § 84-2103, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1048, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1133, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 3297, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 817, § 1; Ga. L. 2018, p. 583, § 1/SB 425; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 43/SB 52; Ga. L. 2020, p. 642, § 1/SB 310; Ga. L. 2022, p. 604, § 2/HB 476.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, added “created in subsection (a) of Code Section 43-15-3” at the end of paragraph (1); substituted “43-15-9 or 43-15-16” for “43-15-9, 43-15-13, or 43-15-16” in paragraph (3); added paragraph (4.1); in division (6)(D)(iv), substituted a comma for the semicolon at the end and added the proviso; deleted former paragraph (7), which read: “ ‘Land surveyor’ means an individual who is qualified to engage in the practice of land surveying and who possesses a current certificate of registration as a land surveyor issued by the board. A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice land surveying within the meaning of this chapter who by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, cards, or in any other way represents or holds himself or herself out as able or qualified to perform or who does perform any of the services defined as land surveying.”; redesignated former paragraphs (8) through (11) as present paragraphs (7) through (10), respectively; substituted “surveyor intern” for “surveyor-in-training” near the beginning of paragraph (7); substituted “individual or” for “individual and” near the beginning of paragraph (8); substituted “mankind” for “man” in the middle of paragraph (9) and in the first sentence of paragraph (10); in paragraph (10), substituted “arts” for “art” near the beginning of the first sentence, in the second sentence, substituted “An individual” for “A person” at the beginning, inserted a comma following “this chapter” near the middle, inserted “or herself” in the middle, and substituted “performs” for “does perform” near the end, and substituted “individuals” for “persons” in the last sentence; and added paragraph (11).
The 2019 amendment, effective May 12, 2019, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “Storm-water management” for “Storm water management” at the beginning of division (6)(D)(iii).
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, added paragraphs (12) and (13).
The 2022 amendment, effective May 9, 2022, substituted “Georgia Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Board” for “State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors” in paragraph (1); and added paragraph (5.1).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1991, “as-built” was substituted for “as built” in subparagraph (6)(E).

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