Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 625 - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
NRS 625.040 - "Practice of land surveying" defined.


1. A person who, in a private or public capacity, does or offers to do any one or more of the following practices land surveying:
(a) Locates, relocates, establishes, re-establishes or retraces any property line or boundary of any tract of land or any road, right-of-way, easement, alignment or elevation of any of the fixed works embraced within the practice of professional engineering as described in NRS 625.050.
(b) Makes any survey for the subdivision or resubdivision of any tract of land.
(c) Determines, by the use of the principles of land surveying, the position for any monument or reference point which marks a property line, boundary or corner, or sets, resets or replaces any such monument or reference point.
(d) Determines the configuration or contour of the earth’s surface or the position of fixed objects thereon by measuring lines and angles and applying the principles of trigonometry.
(e) Geodetic or cadastral surveying.
(f) Municipal and topographic surveying.
(g) Determines the information shown or to be shown on any map or document prepared or furnished in connection with any one or more of the functions described in paragraphs (a) to (f), inclusive.
(h) Indicates in any manner, by the use of the title "land surveyor," or by any other representation, that the person practices or offers to practice land surveying.
(i) Procures or offers to procure land-surveying work for others or for himself or herself.
(j) Manages or conducts as manager, proprietor or agent any place from which land-surveying work is solicited, performed or practiced.
2. A person practices land surveying if the person professes to be a land surveyor or is in a responsible charge of land-surveying work.
3. Making a survey exclusively for geological or landscaping purposes, or aerial photographs or photogrammetry, not involving any of the practices specified in subsection 1, does not constitute land surveying.
4. The practice of land surveying does not include the design, either in whole or in part, of any structure or fixed works embraced in the practice of professional engineering.
[Part 11 1/2:198:1919; added 1947, 797; A 1955, 391] + [Part 13:198:1919; added 1947, 797; A 1949, 639; 1955, 391]—(NRS A 1961, 312; 1977, 741; 1989, 778; 1991, 2237)

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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 625 - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

NRS 625.005 - Purpose.

NRS 625.008 - Definitions.

NRS 625.010 - "Board" defined.

NRS 625.025 - "Discipline" defined.

NRS 625.030 - "Engineer intern" defined.

NRS 625.033 - "Intern" defined.

NRS 625.035 - "Land surveyor intern" defined.

NRS 625.038 - "Licensee" defined.

NRS 625.040 - "Practice of land surveying" defined.

NRS 625.050 - "Practice of professional engineering" defined.

NRS 625.060 - "Professional engineer" defined.

NRS 625.070 - "Professional land surveyor" defined.

NRS 625.080 - "Responsible charge of work" defined.

NRS 625.090 - "Subordinate" defined.

NRS 625.095 - Applicability of chapter: Persons exempt from provisions concerning licensure.

NRS 625.096 - Applicability of chapter: Persons exempt from provisions concerning practice of land surveying.

NRS 625.100 - Creation; number, qualifications and appointment of members; oath.

NRS 625.110 - Officers; quorum; salary of members; per diem allowance and travel expenses of members and employees; payment of salaries; Executive Director; regulations.

NRS 625.120 - Offices.

NRS 625.130 - Seal.

NRS 625.135 - Employees.

NRS 625.140 - Bylaws and regulations; code of conduct.

NRS 625.145 - Fiscal year.

NRS 625.150 - Deposit and use of money received by Board; delegation of authority concerning disciplinary action; deposit of fines; claim for attorney’s fees or cost of investigation; action concerning certain notification received by Board.

NRS 625.152 - Duties: Issuance of licenses and certificates; implementation of provisions of chapter; provision of certain information.

NRS 625.154 - Duties: Examinations for license.

NRS 625.170 - Roster: Preparation; contents; availability, filing and distribution or sale.

NRS 625.175 - Authority of Board to define scope of disciplines of engineering by regulation.

NRS 625.177 - Authority of Board to require persons who are not natural persons to register with Board before engaging in practice of professional engineering; fee; regulations.

NRS 625.179 - Authority of Board to require persons who are not natural persons to register with Board before engaging in practice of land surveying; fee; regulations.

NRS 625.183 - Qualifications of applicant for licensure as professional engineer.

NRS 625.193 - Examination for licensure as professional engineer: Scope; waiver; administration.

NRS 625.250 - Duties of Board concerning professional land surveyors; regulations.

NRS 625.270 - Qualifications of applicant for licensure as professional land surveyor.

NRS 625.280 - Examination for licensure as professional land surveyor: Scope; waiver; administration.

NRS 625.320 - Oaths: Administration; record.

NRS 625.335 - Entry upon land or water to perform duties: Authority; notice; approval; civil liability.

NRS 625.340 - Record of survey: Filing; disclosures.

NRS 625.350 - Record of survey: Form and contents.

NRS 625.360 - Record of survey: Record not required in certain circumstances.

NRS 625.370 - Record of survey: Charge for filing and indexing; filing and indexing by county recorder; records provided by county recorder to county assessor.

NRS 625.380 - Requirements for monuments.

NRS 625.381 - Licenses: Issuance to applicant who complied with requirements of chapter; content; effect.

NRS 625.382 - Licenses: Issuance to licensee of another state or country.

NRS 625.383 - Stamp.

NRS 625.384 - Minimum grade required on each examination for licensure or certification.

NRS 625.385 - Engineer intern and land surveyor intern: Certification; authorized practice; credit toward required experience.

NRS 625.386 - Engineer intern and land surveyor intern: Qualifications for certification.

NRS 625.387 - Payment of child support: Submission of certain information by applicant; grounds for denial of license or certificate; duty of Board. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to e...

NRS 625.390 - Application for licensure or certification: Contents; fees; renewal of license; penalty for late renewal of license; regulations.

NRS 625.395 - Renewal of expired license.

NRS 625.397 - Board may require examination for reinstatement or renewal of license.

NRS 625.398 - Regulations concerning continuing education for professional engineers and professional land surveyors.

NRS 625.400 - Replacement of revoked, lost, destroyed or mutilated license; fee.

NRS 625.403 - Use of word "certify" or "certification" in practice of professional engineering or land surveying.

NRS 625.405 - Immunity from civil liability.

NRS 625.407 - Conditions under which business organization or association may practice engineering or land surveying; exceptions.

NRS 625.410 - Grounds for disciplinary or other action.

NRS 625.415 - Suspension of license or certificate for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement of license or certificate. [Effective until 2 years after the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the f...

NRS 625.420 - Filing of charges; commencement of action.

NRS 625.425 - Certain records relating to investigation deemed confidential; certain records relating to disciplinary action deemed public records.

NRS 625.430 - Hearing; notice; summary suspension of license.

NRS 625.440 - Subpoenas: Issuance by Chair of Board or designee.

NRS 625.450 - Subpoenas: Issuance by district court.

NRS 625.460 - Authorized disciplinary or other action; private reprimands prohibited; orders imposing discipline deemed public records.

NRS 625.470 - Reissuance of revoked license.

NRS 625.510 - Board required to investigate complaint or violation of chapter and take steps necessary for prosecution of violation.

NRS 625.520 - Unlawful practice of engineering: Penalty; order to cease and desist; injunctive relief.

NRS 625.530 - Restrictions upon public works; preferences for contracts.

NRS 625.540 - Unlawful practice of land surveying; penalty.

NRS 625.550 - Intentional removal or defacement of monument unlawful; exception; penalty.

NRS 625.560 - Unlawful signing or stamping of document concerning land surveying.

NRS 625.565 - Unlawful use of signature or stamp of professional engineer or professional land surveyor; regulations; penalty.

NRS 625.570 - Public officer or employee prohibited from engaging in private practice of professional engineering or land surveying during certain hours.

NRS 625.580 - Violation of chapter by public officer; penalties.

NRS 625.590 - Additional civil penalty; enforcement.