Record of Survey - Part Deux

Norman_Oklahoma · 2014-07-18T16:28:00Z

I would like to hear from those who have dealt with overzealous reviewers. Successes and failures.I'll start.I had a survey a few years ago in which the reviewer objected to my basis of bearings statement. The originating plat from the early 1900's had no bearings. There had been no previous ROS with bearings on my lot or any nearby adjoiner. The County Surveyor was known to not approve of saying the basis of bearing was "assumed" - although this is valid by state law. I suppose that I could have done a compass bearing, or a sun shot, or a GPS vector, or traversed into the next block or any number of things - none of which would have materially changed the facts or the monument locations. I made a statement that I assumed that the plat bearings were cardinal, which the reviewer objected to. I researched the last 100 or so recordings and found several examples of surveyors doing exactly the same thing, or referencing their bearings to surveys that had done so earlier, and being acceptable. I composed a letter documenting all this and offered the face saving change of the word "assumed" to "inferred".In response I got a brief email saying that my survey was satisfactory and the matter was closed.

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Jim,

I should also say that in part of the subdivision process is a requirement for the surveyor to certify that he has set the monuments for the subdivision in the ground. This statement means that monuments control over some future surveyor's calculator. To confirm this, there is case law, and to the best of my knowledge, case law has also established that original surveyors monuments control over calculations in a subdivision.

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Posted : July 19, 2014 4:10 pm

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