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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-427" title_number="5" title_name="Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Immunities and Prohibited Actions -- Businesses, Associations, and Charities">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Practice land surveying” has the same meaning as provided in § 15–101 of the Business Occupations and Professions Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Professional land surveyor” means a land surveyor who is licensed by the State Board for Professional Land Surveyors to practice land surveying.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A professional land surveyor, or an agent or employee of a professional land surveyor, who enters a property to practice land surveying may not be held liable under the common law tort of trespass.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This section does not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Affect, and may not be construed as affecting, any immunities from civil liability or defenses established by any other provision of the Code or available at common law or equity to which a professional land surveyor, or an agent or employee of a professional land surveyor, may be entitled; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Impair the right of a person to seek redress under any other provision of the Code or at common law or equity for conduct by a professional land surveyor, or an agent or employee of a professional land surveyor, that is otherwise actionable.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
