CALIFORNIA STATUTES AND CODES
SECTIONS 8790-8792
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE
SECTION 8790-8792
8790. The board shall enforce all of the provisions of this chapter
and cause the prosecution of all violations coming to its notice.
8791. It is the duty of the respective officers charged with the
enforcement of laws to prosecute all persons charged with the
violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.
8792. Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor:
(a) Who, unless he or she is exempt from licensing under this
chapter, practices, or offers to practice, land surveying in this
state without legal authorization.
(b) Who presents as his or her own the license of a professional
land surveyor unless he or she is the person named on the license.
(c) Who attempts to file as his or her own any record of survey
under the license of a professional land surveyor.
(d) Who gives false evidence of any kind to the board, or to any
member, in obtaining a license.
(e) Who impersonates or uses the seal of a professional land
surveyor.
(f) Who uses an expired, suspended, or revoked license.
(g) Who represents himself or herself as, or uses the title of,
professional land surveyor, or any other title whereby that person
could be considered as practicing or offering to practice land
surveying, unless he or she is correspondingly qualified by licensure
as a land surveyor under this chapter.
(h) Who uses the title, or any combination of that title, of
"professional land surveyor," "licensed land surveyor," "land
surveyor," or the titles specified in Sections 8751 and 8775, or
"land surveyor-in-training," or who makes use of any abbreviation of
that title that might lead to the belief that he or she is a licensed
land surveyor or holds a certificate as a land surveyor-in-training,
without being licensed or certified as required by this chapter.
(i) Who, unless appropriately licensed, manages, or conducts as
manager, proprietor, or agent, any place of business from which land
surveying work is solicited, performed, or practiced, except as
authorized pursuant to Section 6731.2 and subdivision (d) of Section
8729.
(j) Who violates any provision of this chapter.