Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB3233 Compare Versions

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1	1	THE SENATE S.B. NO. 3233 THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to professional land surveyors. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
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3	3	THE SENATE S.B. NO. 3233
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13	13	THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
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31	31	A BILL FOR AN ACT
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37	37	relating to professional land surveyors.
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43	43	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
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47	47	SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Act 207, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, authorized the establishment of design claims conciliation panels to protect design professionals against frivolous lawsuits. Under chapter 672B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the definition of design professional includes a professional engineer, architect, surveyor, or landscape architect licensed under chapter 464, Hawaii Revised Statutes (chapter 464). The legislature further finds that under chapter 464, the professional services provided by architects and professional engineers involve the safeguarding of life, health, or property. However, under chapter 464, the professional service provided by a land surveyor does not. Rather, land surveyors are those who practice land surveying, which is defined in part as involving "the application of the principles of mathematics, the physical and applied sciences, and act of measuring, locating, establishing, or reestablishing lines, angles, elevations, and natural and manmade features on the surface and immediate subsurface of the earth for the purpose of determining the legal or geodetic location or relocation, or orientation of improved or unimproved real property...." The purpose of this Act is to establish a statute of repose for land surveyors to establish a period of time after the completion of a contract or final payment for land surveying work that a complaint cannot be made. SECTION 2. Chapter 464, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows: "§464- Professional land surveyors; contract; statute of repose. No action shall be commenced against a professional land surveyor after more than years after the date of completion of a contract or final payment for professional land surveying work." SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored. SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. INTRODUCED BY: _____________________________
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49	49	SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Act 207, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, authorized the establishment of design claims conciliation panels to protect design professionals against frivolous lawsuits. Under chapter 672B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the definition of design professional includes a professional engineer, architect, surveyor, or landscape architect licensed under chapter 464, Hawaii Revised Statutes (chapter 464).
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51	51	The legislature further finds that under chapter 464, the professional services provided by architects and professional engineers involve the safeguarding of life, health, or property. However, under chapter 464, the professional service provided by a land surveyor does not. Rather, land surveyors are those who practice land surveying, which is defined in part as involving "the application of the principles of mathematics, the physical and applied sciences, and act of measuring, locating, establishing, or reestablishing lines, angles, elevations, and natural and manmade features on the surface and immediate subsurface of the earth for the purpose of determining the legal or geodetic location or relocation, or orientation of improved or unimproved real property...."
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53	53	The purpose of this Act is to establish a statute of repose for land surveyors to establish a period of time after the completion of a contract or final payment for land surveying work that a complaint cannot be made.
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55	55	SECTION 2. Chapter 464, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
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57	57	"§464- Professional land surveyors; contract; statute of repose. No action shall be commenced against a professional land surveyor after more than years after the date of completion of a contract or final payment for professional land surveying work."
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59	59	SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
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61	61	SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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75	75	Report Title: Professional Land Surveyors; Statute of Repose Description: Establishes a statute of repose for land surveyors, after which time a complaint cannot be made. The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
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87	87	Professional Land Surveyors; Statute of Repose
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93	93	Establishes a statute of repose for land surveyors, after which time a complaint cannot be made.
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101	101	The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.