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Contractor Setting Pins
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Property owners commonly stake the corners they perceive as theirs. Granted, they don’t often use capped iron rods to do it – they usually use fence posts and such – but that is immaterial. So there is no unlicensed practice here.
The crime, if any, would be in fraudulently representing to the inspector that the corner stakes had been set by a PLS. On the other hand, if the inspector merely observed the stakes and jumped to an unwarranted conclusion …… good luck getting a conviction on that.
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This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Norman_Oklahoma.
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Years ago when I first started my company I showed up to a subdivision project and the Client/contractor had put in a bunch of fences. I asked him if he had been sure to not disturb the property corners. His answer was “we pulled them and put them back in when the fencing was done”. I had to reset every monument for about 10 lots!
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I’ve probably told this story before, but when I was a young pup my PC & I were charged with checking (post construction) monuments another crew had set on a new commercial subdivision. All the exterior monuments, along the back of walk, were there, but they were randomly of by a tenth or two. Norm could be a salty old guy, and I got to hear his displeasure with the work of the other PC as I reset them all. That was until about 3/4 of the way in when I found our mons suspiciously leaning over the newly installed irrigation line. Apparently the irrigation contractor had just butted the ditch-witch up against the back of walk pulling up the mons and then resetting them as they went along. The actually did a pretty good job. Anyway, as I was resetting the last monument, at around 1630 on a Friday, I ended up driving the iron rod through one of their main lines. It looked like Old Faithfull when Norm said pack it up, they can fix it on Monday. I think he figured turnaround was fair play.
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