• Home
  • Download PDF
  • Order CD-ROM
  • Order in Print
By  Rectangular  System - 14070_230
LAND  SURVEY  GENERAL PROCEDURE - 14070_232

Engineering Aid 1 - Advanced Structural engineering guide book
Page Navigation
  209    210    211    212    213  214  215    216    217    218    219  
From  data  obtained  in  a  tax  map  survey,  or cadastral survey, a map book is prepared that shows the location and boundaries of each major subdivision and of each of the lots it contains. The map book is filed  in  the  county  or  city  recorder’s  office,  and henceforward,   in   deeds   or   other   instruments,   a particular lot is described as, for example, “Lot 72 of Tract 5417 as per map recorded in book 72, pages 16 and  17,  of  maps,  in  the  office  of  the  county/city recorder  of  [named]  county/city”;  or  as  “Lot  32  of Christopher Hills Subdivision as per. . . .” JOB REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAND SURVEYOR In  resurveying  property  boundaries  and  in carrying out surveys for the subdivision of land, the EA  performing  land  surveys  has  the  following  duties, responsibilities,  and  liabilities: 1.  Locate  in  the  public  records  all  deed descriptions  and  maps  pertaining  to  the  property  and properly  interpret  the  requirements  contained  therein. 2. Set and properly reference new monuments and  replace  obliterated  monuments. 3.  Be  liable  for  damages  caused  by  errors resulting  from  incompetent  professional  work. 4.  Attempt  to  follow  in  the  tracks  of  the  original surveyor,   relocating   the   old   boundaries   and   not attempting  to  correct  the  original  survey. 5. Prepare proper descriptions and maps of the property. 6.  May  be  required  to  connect  a  property  survey with control monuments so that the grid coordinates of the property corners can be computed. 7.   Report   all   easements,   encroachments,   or discrepancies  discovered  during  the  course  of  the survey. 8.   When   original   monuments   cannot   be recovered with certainty from the data contained in the deed   description,   seek   additional   evidence.   Such evidence must be substantial in character and must not be  merely  personal  opinion. 9. In the absence of conclusive evidence as to the location  of  a  boundary,  seek  agreement  between adjoining owners as to a mutually acceptable location. The surveyor has no judicial functions; he may serve as an  arbiter  in  relocating  the  boundary  according  to prevailing  circumstances  and  procedures  set  forth  by local  authority. 10.  When  a  boundary  dispute  is  carried  to  the courts, he may be called upon to appear as an expert witness. 11.  He must respect the laws of trespass. The right to enter upon property in conducting public surveys is provided by law in most localities. In a few political subdivisions,  recent  laws  make  similar  provision  with respect  to  private  surveys.  Generally,  the  military surveyor should request permission from the owner before entry on private property. When the surveyor lacks permission from an adjoiner, it is usually possible to make the survey without trespassing on the adjoiner’s land,  but  such  a  condition  normally  adds  to  the difficulty of the task. The surveyor is liable for actual damage  to  private  property  resulting  from  his operations. A primary responsibility of a land surveyor is to prepare  boundary  data  that  may  be  submitted  as evidence  in  a  court  of  law  in  the  event  of  a  legal dispute   over   the   location   of   a   boundary.   The techniques  of  land  surveying  do  not  vary  in  any essential  respect  from  those  used  in  any  other  type  of horizontal-location   surveying—you   run   a   land- survey boundary traverse, for example, just as you do a  traverse  for  any  other  purpose.  The  thing  that distinguishes  land  surveying  from  other  types  of surveying  is  that  a  land  surveyor  is  often  required  to decide  the  location  of  a  boundary  on  the  basis  of conflicting  evidence. For example, suppose you are required to locate, on the ground, a boundary line that is described in a deed as running, from a described point of beginning marked  by  a  described  object,  N26°15´E,  216.52  feet. Suppose you locate the point of beginning, run a line therefrom the deed distance in the deed direction, and drive a hub at the end of the line. Then you notice that there is, a short distance away from the hub, a driven metal  pipe  that  shows  signs  of  having  been  in  the ground a long time. Let’s say that the bearing and distance of the pipe from the point of beginning are N26°14´E, 215.62 feet. You  can  see  that  there  is  conflicting  evidence here.  By  deed  evidence  the  boundary  runs  N26°15´E, 216.52 feet; but the evidence on the ground seems to indicate that it runs N26°14´E, 215.62 feet. Did the surveyor  who  drove  the  pipe  drive  it  in  the  wrong place, or did he drive the pipe in the right place and then measure the bearing and distance wrong? The land surveyor, on the basis of experience, judgment, and   extensive   research,   must   frequently   decide questions of this kind. That is to say, he must possess 10-33







Western Governors University

Privacy Statement
Press Release
Contact

© Copyright Integrated Publishing, Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Design by Strategico.