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A lot line adjustment was conditioned to have monuments set a the new corners? Would the surveyor be required to file a Record of Survey? How common is it to have the monuments reset?

that a surveyor is required to file a Record of Survey on the monuments that he set, in this instance, unless I am missing something in the scenario that you present.

There might be monuments that have to be "reset", but the monuments on the adjusted line will be "set", not reset.

It SHOULD be common practice for monuments to be set and a record filed, but not always and not everywhere. There are a whole bunch of LLA's down in Laguna Beach and quite a few in Huntington Beach that were recorded, something set at the corners-wood hubs or spike, maybe even pipes and tags- but no Record filed. This is over the past 20+ years or so.

I think that the accepted general opinion of "the choir" is that the staking of the adjusted line of a LLA shall be monumented per the requirements of the PLSA and a Record of Survey filed.

See this Letter to BPELS and their response. No. 3 is specifically related to LLA's and field surveys to create LLA's.

It doesn't really address your question if it is common for cities to require monuments be set, but if field surveying was used to determine the new lot lines, then according to that letter an RS is required, regardless of whether or not monuments were set.

I have seen cities that get around the SMA where it says an RS can't be required to do an LLA by requiring that monuments be set. It is not that common that I can tell in So Cal.