Professional Practice, Ethics, and Oklahoma Law
This domain tests the statutory and ethical frame around practice: licensure, responsible charge, sealing, records, and conflicts. Oklahoma regulates land surveyors under the Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Act, 59 O.S. § 475.1 et seq., administered by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
Licensure and responsible charge
Practice of land surveying includes establishing, reestablishing, and restoring boundaries and corners. Only a licensed land surveyor may seal survey work, and the seal must cover work performed under that surveyor's responsible charge. Continuing education and Board disciplinary rules apply; unlicensed practice is prohibited.
Ethics and records
Put the client's interest first within the law, disclose conflicts, keep confidential information confidential, and never alter a monument or record to satisfy a client. Keep field notes and computations that support the delivered product. If you discover an error in your own prior work, correct it and notify the affected client.
Worked example
A landowner asks you to move a section corner 5 ft east so a fence will "match the deed." Refuse: the original monument controls, and moving it is both a boundary error and an ethical violation. Offer a retracement, document the evidence, and explain that a boundary agreement or court action, not monument relocation, is the lawful route if the adjoiner disputes the line.
Traps
Sealing work outside your responsible charge; accepting work beyond your competence; silently correcting another surveyor's error; confusing adverse possession (generally 15 years under 12 O.S. § 93) with automatic title transfer; assuming a client's instruction overrides the record.