This is how crazy the new clerk of courts law is going to make things for Surveyors in Georgia...
Clerk: You have a survey being recorded but we need to have a scan of the survey on CD in TIFF Format as per the new state law. We need you to send us the file.
Me: I know of the survey you are talking about. Doesn't it have to be approved, signed, and stamped by all the departments?
Clerk: Yes, I have it in front of me. I just signed it myself.
Me: Well, if you have it, how am I supposed to send you a scan of the plat?
Clerk: ............
Someone was not thinking when they made this stupid law. :pissed:
I'm sorry, you want politicians and their minions to THINK? What now?:excruciating:
just send them a tiff file of mickey mouse, they wont know the difference..how do I know? several years ago a county required me to submit a tif file on cd before they filed my maps. that is what I sent them, at last count they had 30 of them...
> scan of the survey on CD in TIFF Format
Is this part of the law or just this office wants a CD?
This law was outdated before the ink was dry? Not even my music comes on CDs anymore 😀
Kinda an obvious question, but can't they scan it? Then they know it is the original.
Good luck with this one.
The law actually doesn't actually specify a CD. It leaves the media up to the clerk. SAMSOG and the Clerks authority got together and decided they wanted a CD.
This is not the real problem with the law however. The problem is with the logistical nightmare of getting all the required signatures then back to the office to scan one of the copies. Then giving to the clerk for her to edit the cd to show the recording information. The clerk then stamps the plat with the recording information and records the plat.
OH WAIT the tiff image is not the IDENTICAL copy of the recorded plat. The recorded plat has the clerks stamp. OH and which one of these mutters did I scan?????
One more thing the tiff image needs to be 200 dbi whatever that is.
The simple thing to have done would have been to increase the recording fee and let the clerk scan it. The recording fee now is $8.00 no decimal point is correct eight dollars.
Our local clerk's offices around here have a outside firm scan the plats and deeds into tiff and/or pdf format.
I was going to say that, just increase the recording fee and let the clerk scan the drawings in bulk. Staples will scan a 24" X 36" for $6 ... the way they are doing this is going to add a lot more than $6 to the cost when you consider time wasted, fuel or mailing costs, etc...
All I can say is that each county will yet again do it differently ..... and that we surveyors will suffer the consequences. That being said the 200 dpi is 200 dots per inch which is a setting usually on the scanner that will have to be set. I have another question "How will they know that your image is 200 dpi?" That is another reason that I think that they should be the ones to scan the documents and certify the quality of the image for the surveyor of record as part of the recording process. I think most surveyors want to take there final plats for recording one time to the courthouse and get it done. In some cases you might have to drive half way across the state to record the survey then what go to a "Bigger" City to get a scanned image then return to the courthouse with the "Signed final copies" and your images to be finished!!! This was a great idea in its origins however when you have 150+ counties in a state there are going to be plenty of growing pains......... complaints ......... different application of the law etc etc etc.......
to quote a good fellow surveyor "Good luck with it!!!"
Chad W. Carpenter, RLS
Harris County, Georgia
Meanwhile Georgia has won a gold medal at the Olympics. What about the other 49?:excruciating:
You must have missed the Maryland home grown boy who now holds the greatest number of Olympic medals in the history of the world...... granted, that is about all that is happening in this state, but I suspect it made the news elsewhere as well......
I take it that governments don't have scanners in your part of the world. So they are requiring scans for their records but don't have a scanner? I can believe it from experience of my own but it is a sad state of affairs.
