New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 7204-a. Definition of the profession of geology

The practice of the profession of geology is defined as performing professional service such as researching, investigating, consulting and geological mapping, describing the natural processes that act upon the earth's materials, predicting the probable occurrence of natural resources, predicting and locating natural or human-induced phenomena which may be useful or hazardous to humankind and recognizing, determining and evaluating geological factors, and the inspection and performance of geological work and the responsible supervision thereof in furtherance of the health, safety and welfare of the public;  provided, however, that geological mapping shall not include the practice of land surveying as defined in section seventy-two hundred three of this article.