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I mark the previously mapped 4 corners of lot 4 and the neighbors figure out the 5 feet on their own. File a corner record. I’m not establishing new lines, just record corners which may now be witness monuments to adjusted parcel corners.

Be careful with that -- there are enforcement cases against surveyors who did exactly that and it turned out to be very costly for them.

Jim Frame wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:14 pm Be careful with that -- there are enforcement cases against surveyors who did exactly that and it turned out to be very costly for them.

Would you care to elaborate on this?

I got a little ahead of myself with that comment. The situation I was recalling (Board Case No. 681-A) involved a surveyor who marked a title corner that's a portion of a lot, and filed a Corner Record calling the monument a reference point to the lot corner. He did this a bunch of times. The Board found that a Record of Survey was required rather than a Corner Record. The surveyor got his license revoked, with revocation stayed for 4 years probation provided that he file Records of Survey for each instance. I think there was a fine and cost recovery as well, but I don't recall the details.

Monumenting a lot corner and telling the client it's an offset to the title corner is tantamount to the same thing, so if you get caught it could get unpleasant.

The distinction between this and the situation I described at the beginning of this thread is that my client has color of title to the subdivision lots. But it's a moot point now anyway, because the client apparently blanched at my cost proposal and hasn't responded. C'est la vie.