HLS 12RS-747 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 593
BY REPRESENTATIVE TALBOT AND SENATOR MARTI NY
ENGINEERS: Excepts work performed by a naval architect or marine engineer from
provisions regulating engineers and land surveyors
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 37:701(I), relative to professional engineering and land surveying; to provide2
for exception to application of provisions for naval architects and marine engineers;3
to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:701(I) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง701. Public and private work; application of provisions7
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I. No plans, specifications, analyses, drawings, or designs prepared by or9
under the direction of a naval architect or marine engineer relating to any navigable10
vessel or its component parts or systems shall come under the jurisdiction of this11
Chapter.12
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not13
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature14
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If15
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become16
effective on the day following such approval.17 HLS 12RS-747 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 593
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Talbot HB No. 593
Abstract: Provides that work done by naval architects or marine engineers relating to a
navigable vessel is excepted from provisions regulating engineering and land
surveying.
Present law licenses and regulates, through the La. Professional Engineering and Land
Surveying Board, the practice of professional engineering and land surveying and provides
for exceptions and exemptions from regulation for certain persons or activities.
Proposed law retains present law and provides an exception to the regulation of the plans,
specs, drawings, or designs of a naval architect or marine engineer relating to any navigable
vessel or its component parts or systems.
Effective upon signature of governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 37:701(I))