Abstracting personnel visit courthouses and other entities to research liens, titles, deeds, and other documents to produce a title and encumbrance report. Abstracting also enters and updates the parcel information collected from this process in the GeoTransport Right of Way Office Database. A report is sent to engineering where the property lines and existing ROW limits are verified and corrected, if necessary. Engineering interacts with Design, changing the ROW lines as appropriate. Once the ROW lines are settled, Engineering computes areas and produces the deeds, land plats, and final ROW plans.
Engineering also circulates the parcel packet to all sections in the division.
Engineering updates the engineering section of the GeoTransport Right of Way Office Database with details of deeds, plats and drawings. The parcel packet is then passed on to Appraising where a set of ROW plans is included. Appraising prepares an appraisal problem analysis and a review appraisal. The reviewed appraisal is added to the parcel packet and passed on to the Acquisition Section. The GeoTransport Right of Way Office Database is updated by the Appraising section.