If you made a list

Not sure I understand all the implications of your question, but it would seem to me that anyone should be able to make a composite plat if that was useful, but it would have no official standing unless signed by a PLS.

Any licensed surveyor should not sign anything that they do not want to be responsible for.

If this is an unlicensed guy then I have zero tolerance. I put any unlicensed practice at the top and they all share a #1 ranking.

If by "Composite Plat", you mean Assessor's Map; it's the way things are done here in Washington. Not saying that I agree; just saying that's the way it's done here. I believe that the person responsible for putting these together is called a cartographer.

I suppose; as long as it has a disclaimer, it should be OK. But I can't tell you the number of times I've had someone tell me they have a copy of the survey or plat and then they show me this...

?ÿPierce County Assessor's map

You should see their face when I point to the disclaimer and say it's not worth much more than the paper it's printed on...

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Never heard of a "composite plat", what is it?

I would guess it's a plan drawn up from record information, without the benefit of a field survey.?ÿ They were very popular in Mass. during the middle portion of the last century, but they were called "compiled plans".?ÿ The registry of deeds has no mandate or criteria to reject them from recording.?ÿ Our state board of registration issued an advisory some years ago warning surveyors against the practice, in particular regard to plans dividing property and creating new lot lines.?ÿ It always sucks to see "Compiled Plan of Land" in the title block of a plan that is referenced in a deed.

"Compiled from plats and deeds of record and does not constitute a current survey". And it was signed/sealed by a professional that is NOT a PLS.?ÿ

Stacy, I've never seen a composite (compiled) plat sealed or signed by anyone.?ÿ All the ones I have prepared stated plainly. "This is NOT a survey and is compiled from deeds and plats of record".?ÿ We had clients who had bought adjacent parcels over the years and wanted an idea of what they owned for permitting purposes only.?ÿ I took the plats prepared at the time of purchase (some 30 years old) and "fit" them together.?ÿ Some surveys agreed pretty well and others didn't.?ÿ Any dimensions shown were taken from the original plats.

Andy

@ stacy carroll

What type of so called professional?

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The Subdivision Map Act in California (66448) allows a Parcel Map (4 or fewer parcels created) to be based on a field survey?ÿor compiled from record data if sufficient monumentation exists to retrace the exterior boundary and establishment of interior boundary lines.

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Surveyor Statement states either based on a field survey or complied from record data

PE

@Andy,

We have begun to see a few around and even some recorded. The first time I saw it, I filed a complaint with the BOR but apparently a recorded plat isn't proof enough.

Shoot....I routinely find older recorded plats with a Tennessee stamp on them. Saw one last month in Gordon County. I don't recall finding any "new" plats though.

A Professional Engineer huh. Maybe you should do up a composite plat of a something engineer related and take it to him for review.?ÿ