Senate Bill 1063 Summary

• Amends Section 54-1202 of Idaho Code to revise and reorganize definitions related to land surveying and professional engineering, renumbering several definition entries.

• Adds new definition of "Authoritative" meaning products, processes, applications or data certified by a professional land surveyor in accordance with established principles of professional land surveying.

• Adds new definition of "Benchmark" meaning a material object, natural or artificial, whose elevation is referenced to an adopted datum.

• Expands the definition of "Professional land surveying" to clarify that it includes services using sciences such as mathematics, geodesy and photogrammetry, and specifies nine categories of surveying activities.

• Amends Section 54-1227 to change terminology from "such professional boundary land survey" to "such professional boundary land survey as defined in section 54-1202, Idaho Code" for clarity and code reference.