SRV 220 - Boundary Surveying

1. Define surveying
   1. Describe the activities of the property surveyor in society
   2. Identify the present and future needs for property surveyors
2. Review the historical development of property surveying
   1. Discuss property surveys in early history
   2. Identify survey systems of the east and south
   3. Explain the U.S. rectangular system
3. Discuss professional liability and seven principles relative to negligence
   1. Explain the discovery rule
   2. Define standard of care
   3. Discuss negligence versus breach of contract
   4. Describe expressed and implied guarantees
   5. Discuss avoiding liability
4. Discuss professional stature and nine principles involved in earning a professional standing
   1. Practice attaining professional stature
   2. Explain attributes of a profession
   3. Demonstrate ethics and obligations
   4. Discuss professional standing of surveyors
5. Explain original surveys and platting laws
   1. Describe the regulation of original surveys and boundaries
   2. Describe the objectives of platting laws and the certainty of land location.
   3. Identify considerations and guarantees of title
   4. List the requirements for monumentation
   5. Describe the use of coordinates in subdivision
   6. Explain the certification and recordation of surveys 
6. Explain original surveys and platting laws
   1. Describe the regulation of original surveys and boundaries
   2. Describe the objectives of platting laws and the certainty of land location
   3. Identify considerations and guarantees of title
   4. List the requirements for monumentation
   5. Describe the use of coordinates in subdivision
   6. Explain the certification and recordation of surveys
7. Practice procedures for locating written title boundaries
   1. Define the nature of location surveys
   2. Discuss contact with clients
   3. Explore the research of records and documents
   4. Demonstrate fieldwork
   5. Understand the compilation of evidence
   6. Discuss the presentation of results
8. Practice apportionment procedures for land and water boundaries
   1. Identify vacated streets
   2. Explain apportion of water boundaries
   3. Practice excess and deficiency of lots.
   4. Discuss division lines between fractional parts
   5. Discuss wills and proportional rights
9. Demonstrate writing descriptions
   1. Identify graphic and written descriptions
   2. Describe conveyances
   3. Explain objectives and sufficiency of descriptions
   4. Discuss loss of evidence, ambiguity and mathematical correctness.
   5. Practice technique of writing
   6. Use calls, lines and basis of bearings
   7. Discuss strip conveyances, stationing and abbreviations
   8. Define easements and exceptions
   9. Explain true metes and bounds descriptions
10. Explain the preservation of evidence
    1. Describe vanishing of evidence
    2. Review responsibility and authority to perpetuate evidence
    3. Discuss oaths and witnesses
    4. Review recording of documents
    5. Discuss the use of aerial and terrestrial photographs to preserve evidence
    6. Explain preservation by State Plan coordinates