Oregon has a rule that experience before the age of 18 doesn't count. So, in practice, a person can't clear the education/experience or experience onl...

On a related note the Washington County, Oregon County Surveyor Records website was recently updated. After a period of getting used to the changes I'...

I don't have an answer. But I want to remind one and all that good times, and bad times, come and go. One day we will all be short on work. Plan accor...

Floors 2, 3 & 4 must be restricted Common in highrises to have 2 sets of elevators, one set serving only the lower floors and the other bypassi...

I've been there, and I've got to admit that you have a good point. But it's not the elevator - it is all the crap you know is outside of it.

I get these kinds of calls and the red flags fly pretty quick. I've been waiting for someone to say it ....

For boundary surveys there's usually not a lot of drafting to do .... Speak for yourself. Hereabouts finishing the fieldwork on boundary puts you a...

We need to charge more than a lawyer ... We do, indeed, need to charge more. But perhaps not for immediate gratification. We need to charge more fo...

Vernier reading is, like the slide rule, something I am just old enough to have been taught how to use, but not old enough to have ever actually used ...

I'm not entirely clear on what you mean by "tie line", but possibly a form like the following would work: ... .... ; thence <bearing>, <dist...

I have seen similar arrangements here in Oregon. In fact, one example was posted here several months ago. "No Man's Land" = Common Area Tract.

It does my heart good to learn that others are having trouble with supplied control. I sometimes think that I'm the only one. I've done lots of site d...

When Holy Cow plugs that TI-30 in the street lights in his little Kansas town will dim.

In Oregon and Washington 18"x24" is required for recordable surveys On further review, this statement is technically imprecise. Washington State la...

Oregon's recording law (ORS 209.250) preexisted the codification of state law in 1953. The notes accompanying that codification mention acts from 193...

Bluntly, I'm calling BS on being able to read the rod to the hundredth at 500 feet. Not on the clearest frosty day of winter. Half that is stretching ...

There is a subtlety in the law that allows both statements to be true in spite of the apparent conflict of terms. A majority of road rights of way ar...