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AL Code § 35-2-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-31 - Custody and Ownership of Original Survey Corners and Accessories; Penalty for Alteration or Destruction, Etc.

Section 35-2-31Custody and ownership of original survey corners and accessories; penalty for alteration or destruction, etc. The custody and ownership of the original United States public land survey corners and accessories has never been released or surrendered by the State of Alabama. These survey corners and their accessories are property of the State of Alabama. This includes all restorations and replacements of the original corners and all their accessories, witness trees, and objects as well. The alteration, removal, disfiguration, or destruction of any of the corners or accessories, without specific permission of the division of land surveys, is an act of destruction of state property and is punishable as a misdemeanor. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §11.)
AL Code § 35-2-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-32 - Right of Entry Upon Private Property; Liability for Damages; Immunity From Arrest for Trespass.

Section 35-2-32Right of entry upon private property; liability for damages; immunity from arrest for trespass. Members of the advisory board, the chief of the division of land surveys or any and all employees of the division shall have the right to enter upon private property for the purpose of making surveys or for searching for, locating, relocating, or remonumenting land monuments, leveling stations, or section corners. Should any of these persons necessarily damage property of the owner in making the surveys or searches or remonumentations, the division may make reasonable payment for the damage through the state Board of Adjustment. However, members of the advisory board or any employees of the division are personally liable for any damage caused by their wantonness, willfulness, or negligence. All members of the advisory board and all division employees are immune from arrest for trespass in performing their legal duties as stated in this article, by presenting cards issued by the division giving the persons or employees permission so to enter private property. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §12.)
AL Code § 35-2-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-33 - Furnishing Copies of Records; Admissibility of Division Records in Court Proceedings.

Section 35-2-33Furnishing copies of records; admissibility of division records in court proceedings. On request of the chief of the division of land surveys, all probate judges or other recorders of deeds, mortgages, or other instruments dealing with any interest in real property, together with all departments, boards, or agencies of state government, county or city government shall furnish to the division of land surveys certified copies of desired records which are in their custody. This service shall be free of cost when possible; otherwise it shall be at actual cost of reproduction of the records. On the same basis of cost, the division shall furnish records within its custody to other agencies or departments of state, county, or city, certifying them. Copies of records of the division, when so certified by the chief of the division, shall be admitted in evidence, without further identification, in any court proceeding in the state if the substance of the record is properly admissible in the proceeding. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §13.)
AL Code § 35-2-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-34 - Registration of Employees; Private Surveying or Consultation Not Permitted.

Section 35-2-34Registration of employees; private surveying or consultation not permitted. Every employee of the division of land surveys who is engaged in work required by law to be done by a registered land surveyor will be so registered. No employee of the division shall engage in private land surveying or consultation while so employed by the division. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §14.)
AL Code § 35-2-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-35 - Production, Reproduction, or Sale of Maps, Plats, Etc.

Section 35-2-35Production, reproduction, or sale of maps, plats, etc. The division of land surveys may produce, reproduce, and sell maps, plats, reports, studies, and records and shall fix the charge therefor. All income received from the sales shall be promptly deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the "Land Surveys Fund," which is hereby established. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §15.)
AL Code § 35-2-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-36 - Contracts.

Section 35-2-36Contracts. Whenever the division of land surveys deems it expedient and when funds appropriated permit, the division shall have the power to enter into contracts with agencies of the United States, with agencies of sister states or with private persons, registered land surveyors or professional engineers, in order to plan and execute other projects that are within the scope and purpose of this article. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §16.)
AL Code § 35-2-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-37 - Limitation on Amount of Warrants for Payment of Expenses and Compensation.

Section 35-2-37Limitation on amount of warrants for payment of expenses and compensation. Under no circumstances shall the total amount of warrants issued by the Comptroller in payment of the expense and compensation provided for in this article exceed the amount provided therefor by the Legislature in the general appropriation or other appropriation bills. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §17.)
AL Code § 35-2-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 2 - Division of Land Surveys.|Section 35-2-38 - Extent of Surveys or Resurveys Authorized by Article.

Section 35-2-38Extent of surveys or resurveys authorized by article. This article shall not be construed as to authorize or require the division of land surveys to survey or resurvey the entire State of Alabama. However, the division may perform such surveys as it may, from time to time, deem necessary to fulfill the purposes of this article. (Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §18.)
AL Code § 35-2-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-50 - Survey Required; What Plat or Map Must Show.

Section 35-2-50Survey required; what plat or map must show. Any person, or his administrator, executor or guardian, desiring to subdivide his lands into lots shall cause the same to be surveyed by a competent surveyor, if not already surveyed, and shall cause a plat or map thereof to be made, showing the subdivisions into which it is proposed to divide the same, giving the length and bearings of the boundaries of each lot and its number; and, if it is the purpose of the owner to divide the lands into town lots, such plat or map shall show the streets, alleys, and public grounds and give the bearings, length, width, and name of each street, as well as the number of each lot and block. Such plat or map must show the relation of the lands so platted or mapped to the government survey. (Code 1896, §3899; Code 1907, §6028; Code 1923, §10357; Code 1940, T. 56, §12.)
AL Code § 35-2-51 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-51 - Certification, Acknowledgment, and Recordation of Plat or Map; Copies as Evidence; Conveyance.

Section 35-2-51Certification, acknowledgment, and recordation of plat or map; copies as evidence; conveyance. (a) The plat or map having been completed shall be certified by the surveyor, which certificate must also be signed by the owner, his duly authorized agent or attorney, executor, administrator, or guardian and acknowledged by such owner, agent, or attorney, in the same manner in which deeds are required to be acknowledged. The plat or map, together with the certificate of the surveyor and acknowledgment, shall be recorded in the office of the judge of probate in the county in which the lands are situated, in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose; and such acknowledgment and record shall have like effect and certified copies thereof and of such plat or map may be used in evidence to the same extent and with like effect as in the case of deeds. (b) The acknowledgment and recording of such plat or map shall be held to be a conveyance in fee simple of such portion of the premises platted as are marked or noted on such plat or map as donated or granted to the public, and the premises intended for any street, alleyway, common or other public use, as shown in such plat or map, shall be held in trust for the uses and purposes intended or set forth in such plat or map. (Code 1896, §§3900, 3901; Code 1907, §§6029, 6030; Code 1923, §§10358, 10359; Code 1940, T. 56, §§13, 14.)
AL Code § 35-2-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-52 - Approval of Municipal Authorities Required.

Section 35-2-52Approval of municipal authorities required. It shall be the duty of every probate judge in this state to decline to receive for record in his office any map or plat upon which any lands lying within the corporate limits or police jurisdiction of any city of this state having a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants are platted or mapped as streets, alleys, or other public ways, unless such map or plat shall have noted thereon the approval of the governing body or city engineer of such city. (Acts 1927, No. 208, p. 217; Code 1940, T. 56, §15.)
AL Code § 35-2-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-53 - Vacation of Plat or Map by Owner of Lands.

Section 35-2-53Vacation of plat or map by owner of lands. Any plat or map, whether or not executed and recorded as provided in this article, may be vacated by the owner, his executor, administrator, or guardian of the lands at any time before the sale of any lot therein by a written instrument declaring the same to be vacated, executed, acknowledged, and recorded in like manner as conveyances of land which declaration, being duly recorded, shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the recording of the plat or map so vacated and to divest all public rights in the streets, alleys, and public grounds and all dedications laid out or described in such plat or map. When lots have been sold, the plat or map may be vacated, in the manner herein provided by all the owners of lots in such plat or map joining in the execution of such writing. (Code 1896, §3902; Code 1907, §6031; Code 1923, §10360; Code 1940, T. 56, §16.)
AL Code § 35-2-54 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-54 - Vacation of Streets or Alleys by Abutting Landowners.

Section 35-2-54Vacation of streets or alleys by abutting landowners. Any street or alley shown by any map, plat, or survey, whether such map or plat is executed and recorded as provided by law or not, may be vacated, in whole or in part, by the owner or owners of the lands abutting the street or alley (or that portion of the street or alley desired to be vacated), or their executors, administrators, or guardian, joining in a written instrument declaring the same to be vacated, such written instrument to be executed, acknowledged, and recorded in like manner as conveyances of land, which declaration being duly recorded shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the dedication by the map, plat, or survey and to divest all public rights, including any rights which may have been acquired by prescription, in that part of the street or alley so vacated. If any such street or alley is within the limits of any municipality, the assent of the mayor and aldermen or other governing body of the municipality must be procured, evidenced by a resolution adopted by such governing body, a copy of which, certified by the clerk or ministerial officer in charge of the records of the municipality must be attached to, filed, and recorded with the written declaration of vacation. Convenient means of ingress and egress to and from their property shall be afforded to all other property owners owning property in the tract of land embraced in the map, plat, or survey, either by the remaining streets and alleys dedicated by such map, plat, or survey or by any other street or alley being dedicated. If such street or alley has been or is being used as a public road and outside of any municipality, the assent of the county commission of the county in which the property is situated must be procured, evidenced by resolution adopted by such county commission, a copy of which, certified by the presiding officer thereof, must be attached thereto, filed and recorded with the declaration of vacation. (Code 1896, §3903; Code 1907, §6032; Acts 1923, No. 15, p. 10; Code 1923, §10361; Acts 1927, No. 199, p. 194; Code 1940, T. 56, §17.)
AL Code § 35-2-55 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-55 - Validation, Ratification, and Confirmation of Vacation of Streets, Etc.

Section 35-2-55Validation, ratification, and confirmation of vacation of streets, etc. Every change in location, or vacation, or attempted vacation of any road, street, avenue, or alley, or any part thereof, by the owner or owners of lands abutting thereon, or upon which such road, street, avenue, or alley is located, when such vacation, or attempted vacation, or change of location was in a city or town and was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by the governing body thereof (or if it was without a city or town when such vacation, or attempted vacation, or change of location when made was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by the county commission, or which has been or may be hereafter ratified or confirmed by the county commission) is and shall be validated, ratified, and confirmed, and all rights of the public in any such road, street, avenue, or alley, or the part thereof so vacated, or attempted to be vacated, including all rights acquired by prescription, are and shall be relinquished or abandoned. (Acts 1923, No. 15, p. 10; Code 1923, §10362; Acts 1927, No. 199, p. 194; Code 1940, T. 56, §18.)
AL Code § 35-2-56 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-56 - Mutilated, Lost, or Mislaid Maps or Plats.

Section 35-2-56Mutilated, lost, or mislaid maps or plats. Where land has been divided into lots, and the map or plat thereof mutilated, lost, or mislaid, and a part or all of the lots indicated therein have been sold, the owner thereof may cause a new survey to be made and a plat or map to be made therefrom, or reproduce the one mutilated, lost, or mislaid, from a survey already made, which new plat or map, if certified, acknowledged and recorded as required by law, shall have the same effect in all respects as a plat or map recorded under Section 35-2-50 and may be vacated in the same manner and under the same conditions as plats or maps may be vacated. (Code 1896, §3904; Code 1907, §6033; Code 1923, §10363; Code 1940, T. 56, §19.)
AL Code § 35-2-57 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-57 - Duty of Probate Judge Upon Recording Vacated Map or Plat.

Section 35-2-57Duty of probate judge upon recording vacated map or plat. When a map or plat or part thereof is vacated, the judge of probate must, upon recording such vacation, write in plain letters across the record of the map or plat, or the part so vacated, the word "vacated" and shall also refer on the same to the volume and page in which the instrument of vacation is recorded. (Code 1896, §3905; Code 1907, §6034; Code 1923, §10364; Code 1940, T. 56, §20.)
AL Code § 35-2-58 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-58 - Vacation and Annulment of Map or Plat, etc., by Circuit Court - Jurisdiction; Parties.

Section 35-2-58Vacation and annulment of map or plat, etc., by circuit court - Jurisdiction; parties. The circuit courts of this state shall have jurisdiction and power to vacate and annul any map, plat, or survey of lands, or any streets, alleys, avenues, or roads, whether designated by any such maps, plats, or surveys or not, upon the filing of a civil action by any person or persons owning any of the lots, parcels, or tracts of land abutting such roads, streets, or alleys sought to be vacated or annulled. Unless the owners of all the lots or parcels of land so abutting upon the roads, streets, or alleys sought to be vacated join as plaintiffs, the owners and claimants of such other lots or parcels of land abutting upon the roads, streets, or alleys sought to be vacated shall be made parties defendant; and the municipality, town, or city, if the land is located within any municipality, town, or city, shall also be made a party defendant; and, if not located in such municipality, city, or town, the county in which such lands are located shall be made a party defendant. (Code 1923, §10365; Code 1940, T. 56, §21.)
AL Code § 35-2-59 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-59 - Vacation and Annulment of Map or Plat, etc., by Circuit Court - Conduct of Proceedings; Entry of Judgment; Appeals.

Section 35-2-59Vacation and annulment of map or plat, etc., by circuit court - Conduct of proceedings; entry of judgment; appeals. The proceedings for vacating and annulling such maps, plats, surveys, roads, streets, or alleys shall be conducted in all respects as civil actions are conducted and the circuit court may prescribe all rules and regulations for the conduct of such proceedings which are not inconsistent with the laws of this state or rules promulgated by the Supreme Court. Upon the final hearing of the action, the court may grant the relief prayed in the complaint in whole or in part, or may deny such relief in whole or in part. An appeal will lie from such judgment of the circuit court, as is authorized or provided from other judgments of the circuit court; and upon such hearing, the appellate court may affirm, reverse, or render such judgment or order as the trial court should have rendered. (Code 1923, §10366; Code 1940, T. 56, §22.)
AL Code § 35-2-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-60 - Vacation and Annulment of Map or Plat, etc., by Circuit Court - Recordation of Judgment.

Section 35-2-60Vacation and annulment of map or plat, etc., by circuit court - Recordation of judgment. If the final judgment or order of the court provides that any map, plat, survey, road, street, or alley shall be vacated or annulled in whole or in part, the petition or complaint, together with the final order or judgment of the court, shall be recorded in the office or offices in which the map, plat, or survey showing such roads, streets, or alleys are recorded, and the order or judgment of the court shall not be final until such petition, complaint, order, or judgment is so recorded. (Code 1923, §10367; Code 1940, T. 56, §23.)
AL Code § 35-2-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-61 - Fee for Recordation and Registration.

Section 35-2-61Fee for recordation and registration. The party filing such petition, complaint, order, or judgment for recording and registration shall pay the recording or registration officer a fee of $.15 per 100 words for so recording or registering such documents in such office. (Code 1923, §10368; Code 1940, T. 56, §24.)
AL Code § 35-2-62 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.|Section 35-2-62 - Remedies Not Exclusive.

Section 35-2-62Remedies not exclusive. The remedies provided in this article for vacating maps, plats, surveys, streets, alleys, etc., shall not be held to be exclusive, but alternative or cumulative. (Code 1923, §10369; Code 1940, T. 56, §25.)
AL Code § 35-2-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 4 - Recording of Aerial Photographs or Maps.|Section 35-2-80 - Duty of Probate Judges to Record Aerial Photographs or Maps; Manner of Recordation and Maintenance.

Section 35-2-80Duty of probate judges to record aerial photographs or maps; manner of recordation and maintenance. In order to facilitate acquirement of easements by watershed associations, water conservancy associations or districts and any other lawful entity engaged in water and soil conservation work, the probate judges of the several counties of the State of Alabama shall receive and record aerial photographs or maps of land areas in their respective counties. These maps or photographs shall be recorded, kept, and maintained in substantially the same manner as prescribed in Section 35-2-51. Before being recorded, such a map or photograph may have drawn or inscribed thereon its source of origin, the approximate scale of the map, section and township lines, property lines, high-water marks for channels and storage areas for water, and soil conservation tract or parcel numbers and boundaries and all such other indicia or information as may be appropriate for identification of the land areas represented by the map. (Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 415, p. 560, §1.)
AL Code § 35-2-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 4 - Recording of Aerial Photographs or Maps.|Section 35-2-81 - Approval of County Engineer; Recordation by Probate Judge Without Fee; Use After Recordation.

Section 35-2-81Approval of county engineer; recordation by probate judge without fee; use after recordation. Before being recorded, all such photographs or maps must have been presented to the county engineer of the county where the land area represented is located. Upon his being satisfied as to the purpose of the recording of such map or photograph and as to the information inscribed thereon, he shall note his approval and affix thereto his signature. This procedure shall constitute all the requirements necessary for recording; and, after the approval of the county engineer, the map or photograph shall be received and recorded by the appropriate probate judge without any charge or fee. After recording, such maps or photographs may be lawfully used as references in easements or other instruments of conveyance. (Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 415, p. 560, §2.)
AL Code § 35-2-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 2 - Surveys.|Article 4 - Recording of Aerial Photographs or Maps.|Section 35-2-82 - Article Cumulative.

Section 35-2-82Article cumulative. This article is cumulative. (Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 415, p. 560, §3.)