Pub. 12 2017 Issue 1

7 Issue 1 2017 / UCLS Foresights www.ucls.org Utah Council of Land Surveyors Standards and Ethics Committee Update for Foresight, April 13, 2017 The Standard and Ethics Committee meets the fourth Thursday of each month at 5:30pm at Dominion Engineering, located at 5684 Green Street in Murray. We would like to extend an invitation to all those that want to be involved with the committee to attend. If you are unable to attend because of travel distance to the meeting or other reasons please let me know. We are in the process of setting up a video or telephone conference system that we can link everyone in on the meetings. As you may knowwe have the DOPL investigators attend our meeting and reviewwith them any cases they have questions on. We also allow time for questions or concerns of surveyors and others that use survey services and if possible address the concerns or issues that are brought before our committee. This often times results in very interesting discussions that can benefit all those that attend. This year we will Continuing work on the Condominium Plat Standards and as a committee we have a goal to complete them for review and approval of the UCLS membership. Evan J. Wood, PLS Committee Chair Utah Council of Land Surveyors Publication Committee April 24, 2017 Publishing ten newsletters and two Foresight magazines each year is the goal of the Utah Council of Land Surveyors Publication Committee. Furthermore, the principal duties of the Publication committee shall be to prepare and mail newsletters and other announcements to the membership of the Corporation. How are we doing? What does the membership of UCLS want? Please let us know your thoughts and desires so that we might better meet your expectations. Did you know that participating in, and/or contributing to, the publication committee provides an easy opportunity to augment your continuing education requirements? R156-22-304. Continuing Education for Professional Engineers, Professional Structural Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors. In accordance with Subsection 58-22-303(2) and Section 58-22-304, the qualifying continuing professional education standards for professional engineers, professional structural engineers and professional land surveyors are established as follows: (c) a maximum of five hours per two year period may be recognized for preparation of papers, articles, or books directly related to the practice of professional engineering, professional structural engineering or professional land surveying and submitted for publication; and (d) a maximum of ten hours per two year period may be recognized at the rate of one hour for each hour served on committees or in leadership roles in any state, national or international organization for the development and improvement of the profession of professional engineering, professional structural engineering or professional land surveying but no more than five of the ten hours may be obtained from such activity in any one organization; The publication committee chair has primarily collected the content published in the newsletter and Foresight. Unfortunately, the resources of the publication committee chair are limited and therefore the published content is often lacking. We invite you to share charismatic photos of yourself and/or a coworker, panoramic images of Utah’s scenic wonders, and pictures of survey related tools and equipment. Additionally, we need interesting and unique descriptions or survey related stories to share with our membership. Thanks, Steve Keisel UCLS Publication Chair