South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 22 - Engineers And Surveyors
Section 40-22-290. TIER A surveying; exclusions.

The practice of TIER A surveying does not include:
(1) the creation of nontechnical maps:
(a) prepared by private firms or government agencies for use as guides to motorists, boaters, aviators, or pedestrians;
(b) prepared for publication in a gazetteer or atlas as an education tool or reference publication;
(c) prepared for or by educational institutions for use in the curriculum of any course of study or academic research;
(d) produced by any broadcast or print media firm as an illustrative guide to the geographic location of any event;
(e) prepared by lay persons for conversational or illustrative purposes, including advertising material and use guides;
(2) the transcription of existing documents or land records into geographic information systems/land information systems by manual or electronic means;
(3) the transcription of public record data into a cadastre (tax maps and associated records) and the maintenance of that cadastre by either manual or electronic means, including tax maps and zoning maps;
(4) the use of all documents or databases prepared by any federal agency and documents or databases using federal data by any person to prepare documents and databases including, but not limited to, federal and military versions of quadrangle topographic maps, military maps, and satellite imagery;
(5) the use of all civilian or commercial remotely-sensed satellite data;
(6) all maps and databases created by any firm, in either hardcopy or electronic form, by full-time employees of that firm, of features that are wholly contained within properties that the firm owns, leases, rents, or has exclusive use or shared easement to, are exempt from the definition of surveying. This exclusion includes public and private utility companies preparing inventory maps of their facilities as long as those maps and databases are not provided to anyone outside the company with any data that illustrates property ownership lines of property the firm does not own, lease, rent, or on which they have exclusive use or shared easement;
(7) the creation of maps and databases depicting the distribution of natural or cultural resources prepared by foresters, geologists, soil scientists, geophysicists, biologists, geographers, archeologists, historians, urban and regional planners, or other individuals qualified to prepare such maps as long as any property boundaries shown are either supplied by a professional surveyor or transcribed from public deed or plat records converted from tax maps or cadastre, or are clearly not intended to serve as legal property boundaries;
(8) the creation of all maps and geo-referenced databases depicting physical features and events prepared by any government agency where the access to that data is restricted by statute, including geo-referenced data generated by law enforcement agencies involving crime statistics and criminal activities;
(9) the work of any official or employee of a political subdivision of this State while in the performance of their official duties involving Emergency 911 mapping, land use mapping, property tax mapping, remote sensing and implementation, maintenance, creation, and distribution of mapping grade GIS data as part of a political subdivision's geographic information system.
HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 311, Section 1; 2007 Act No. 58, Section 1; 2016 Act No. 259 (S.685), Section 16, eff June 3, 2016.
Effect of Amendment
2016 Act No. 259, Section 16, in (1), inserted "nontechnical", and in (1)(c), substituted "educational institutions" for "education institutions".

Structure South Carolina Code of Laws

South Carolina Code of Laws

Title 40 - Professions and Occupations

Chapter 22 - Engineers And Surveyors

Section 40-22-2. Purpose.

Section 40-22-5. Application of Chapter 1; conflicts.

Section 40-22-10. Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors: membership and qualifications; compensation; removal; meetings; liability.

Section 40-22-20. Definitions.

Section 40-22-30. Practice without a license; penalties.

Section 40-22-40. Nomination of board member candidates from general public.

Section 40-22-50. Duties of board; promulgation of examination, licensing, and registration fees; records; register of applications for certificates of authorization; roster.

Section 40-22-60. Rules and regulations; seal; input to department.

Section 40-22-70. Additional powers and duties.

Section 40-22-75. Waiver of licensing requirements during emergencies.

Section 40-22-80. Investigations of violations; subpoenas; administration of oaths and taking of testimony; charges.

Section 40-22-90. Presentation of investigation results; hearing; notification of accused.

Section 40-22-100. Cease and desist orders; application for temporary restraining order.

Section 40-22-110. Penalties; grounds.

Section 40-22-115. Jurisdiction of board.

Section 40-22-120. Civil fines and other penalties.

Section 40-22-130. Grounds for denial of license.

Section 40-22-140. Prior criminal record.

Section 40-22-150. Voluntary surrender of license.

Section 40-22-160. Appeal.

Section 40-22-170. Costs.

Section 40-22-180. Payment of fines; interest.

Section 40-22-190. Confidentiality of proceedings.

Section 40-22-200. Violation of chapter; penalty.

Section 40-22-210. Injunctions; rule to show cause.

Section 40-22-220. Licensure requirements; engineer-in-training; professional engineer; examination.

Section 40-22-222. Licensing of existing engineers; review process.

Section 40-22-225. Eligibility requirements for license as surveyor.

Section 40-22-230. Application forms; references; written examinations; reexaminations; issuance of certificate of registration; reissuance of revoked certificate.

Section 40-22-240. Renewal of registration; fees and late fees; lapsed license; continuing professional competency requirement.

Section 40-22-245. South Carolina Engineers and Surveyors Education and Research Fund; funding; report of expenditures.

Section 40-22-250. Certificate of authorization to practice as firm; conditions; application and registration fee; discipline.

Section 40-22-260. Temporary licenses and certificates of authorization.

Section 40-22-270. Individual seals; stamping on plans and specifications.

Section 40-22-280. Exceptions from application of chapter.

Section 40-22-290. TIER A surveying; exclusions.

Section 40-22-295. Emergency services immunity.

Section 40-22-300. Promulgation of regulations for practice by firms located in foreign countries.

Section 40-22-310. Status of regulations promulgated pursuant to Chapter 21.

Section 40-22-320. Severability.