Is this allowed?
I have been struggling with several survey maps in an area where every surveyor made up a highway layout in a different way. In the process of filtering out the layouts that do not fit current pavement, survey marks and occupation I came across one map from November of 2020 with the following note:
"This Plan [sic] prepared from available plans and deeds of record and does not represent an instrument survey by this Surveyor." (Yet this non-survey shows monuments and lots).
I do not beleive this is allowable practice in our jurisdiction to show a subdivision of land. I seriously doubt this type of work allowed anywhere.
This survey isn't a survey. Classic!
Is it stamped and signed? Maybe some rando took a site plan and recorded it without telling the guy.
It is stamped and signed.
"This is not the survey you are looking for."
-Obi-Wan Kenobi
A Tax Map is a compilation of available records. That's not illegal. Is a licensed surveyor precluded form producing such a map by virtue of his licensure? I think not. As long as they make it plain that the map is a compilation of records and not an original work, I think that it is OK.
It is stamped and signed.
I see.
I've prepared descriptions from record data only and in those cases I include a note saying as much, but I think this is the first I've heard of someone preparing a survey from record data and then recording it. Weird.
Could a surveyor create a map and record showing the results of their research?
Isn't that the question?
As long as they explained what, how, etc I do not see any issue with that.
I think if I were to do this I probably wouldn't show any monument symbols on it though.
This map shows lots being created without the benefit of a survey, and monuments, hopefully only the monuments that were from the previous surveys that were made into a mosaic here.
In 2018 the Board made an advisory ruling about "compiled" plans. They don't have an archive of these rulings, as far as I can tell. Just the current ones are available to view. I don't think it was favorable though.
