PURPOSE: The board shall define what shall be considered immediate personal supervision for professional land surveyors.

1. (1) Plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys or other documents will be deemed to have been prepared under the immediate personal supervision of a professional land surveyor licensed with the board only when—

   1. (A) The client requesting preparation of plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys or other documents makes the request directly to the professional land surveyor licensed with the board or an employee of the professional land surveyor licensed with the board, so long as the employee works in the licensed individual’s place of business and not at a separate location;
   2. (B) The professional land surveyor licensed with the board shall supervise each 20 CSR 2030-13

step of the preparation of the plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys or other documents and has input into their preparation prior to their completion; and

1. (C) The professional land surveyor licensed with the board reviews the final plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys or other documents and makes necessary and appropriate changes to them.

1. (2) During a land survey the professional land surveyor licensed with the board shall:

   1. (A) Supervise and review prior to making the survey the acquisition of all necessary records and data including, but not limited to, deeds, maps, certificates of title, abstracts of title, section line and other boundary line locations in the vicinity;
   2. (B) Supervise and review prior to making the survey the analysis of all the record data in order to determine the most nearly correct legal boundaries of the tract to be surveyed;
   3. (C) Supervise and review the investigation of the selection of the ground control (such as section corners, block corners, survey corners or other corners or monuments found) as a result of the filed survey to be used to position the survey on the ground; and
   4. (D) Supervise and review the execution of the survey, the survey computations and the preparation of the drawing.
2. (3) The plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys or other documents shall be signed and sealed according to section 327.411, RSMo.

AUTHORITY: section 327.041, RSMo Supp. 2005.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30- 13.020. Original rule filed Dec. 16, 1988, effective Feb. 24, 1989. Amended: Filed Dec. 1, 2005, effective June 30, 2006. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-13.020, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Non-substantive change filed Oct. 21, 2015, published Dec. 31, 2015.

*Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001.