Public Agencies and stamping documents

[mpallamary]

There is a growing trend from various public agencies who believe that they do not have to stamp the documents they review and approve. Has anyone had any experience with this? There appears to be two reasons. The first is they argue they are not subject to state law and the second is the public employees are fearful of liability for doing what they are being paid to do. The gist of this is if there is a problem or a complaint, it can only be filed against the municipality and not the person.

Is there anyone from the public sector who would like to weigh in? I, of course, welcome any comments on this topic.

PLSA: 8725.1. Legislative intent - requirement for responsible charge at state and local government entities

"It is the intent of the Legislature that the licensure requirements that are imposed upon private sector professional land surveyors and land surveying partnerships, firms, or corporations shall be imposed upon the state and any city, county, city and county, district, and special district that shall adhere to those requirements. Therefore, for the purposes of Section 8725 and this chapter, at least one person authorized to practice land surveying shall be designated the person in responsible charge of professional land surveying work practiced in any department or agency of the state, city, county, city and county, district, or special district."

These are the same arguments why many municipal surveyors do not support placing their license number on the survey monuments they supervise being set.

Thanks to all.

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Put "review and approve" into context.

Is it relative to: 1) work done under my responsible charge, or are you talking about 2) something like a map or description submitted to an agency as a deliverable of a consultant contract or on behalf of a client in some sort of application process in which the agency surveyor requests additional info or some manner of change to the submitted document or map?