Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.160 - Metes and bounds surveys

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Metes and
				  bounds surveys must be surveyed to Class III standards, except that the
				  division may authorize surveys to Class IV standards in certain instances.
				  Survey or platting criteria unique to a particular type of survey will be set
				  forth in special survey instructions issued by the division. For all metes and
				  bounds surveys, both a preliminary plat and a final plat must be prepared in
				  accordance with secs. 220 and 230 of this chapter. A "metes and bounds"
				  property description must be shown on the plat. The description must begin at a
				  monumented corner position and have an origin of bearing and distance call to
				  an officially recognized monument that has a known relationship to the
				  rectangular survey system. Both of these monuments must have a latitude and
				  longitude established to an accuracy in keeping with the class of survey, with
				  the latitude and longitude of one of them being called out in the property
				  description. Metes and bounds surveys are used for tideland surveys, shore
				  fishery development surveys, open-to-entry surveys, homesite surveys, public
				  and private recreation site surveys, and certain municipal land selection
				  surveys.
(b) The following are
				  additional requirements for metes and bounds surveys of tidelands, shore
				  fishery development sites, and open-to-entry sites:
(1) For a tideland survey, the line of mean
				  high tide must be determined as in sec. 120(1) of this chapter, and the final
				  plat must show the course of the shoreline for an additional 400 feet from each
				  side of the survey.
(2) The
				  applicant for a shore fishery development lease need not have an actual field
				  survey. The applicant has the choice of submitting either a paper plat or a
				  plat that represents an actual field survey. A preliminary plat must be
				  submitted with his application. In the case of a conflict between a lease tract
				  located by a paper plat and a lease tract located by an actual field survey,
				  the field survey governs. If the applicant chooses an actual field survey, the
				  line of mean high tide must be located as in (1) of this subsection. In
				  addition, the final plat must show the lease number assigned by the
				  division.
(3) For an open-to-entry
				  parcel that was not surveyed before entry, a final survey plat and a surveyor's
				  affidavit, attesting that all field work has been completed in accordance with
				  this chapter, must be filed with the director before the expiration of the
				  lease. The director shall approve or disapprove the survey within 30 days after
				  receiving the final survey plat and affidavit. If the survey is disapproved, a
				  field inspection of the survey will be made within 90 days after disapproval.
				  If the field inspection verifies that all field work has been completed in
				  accordance with division survey criteria, as shown on the final plat and as
				  attested to on the surveyor's affidavit, the director may approve the survey.
				  After approval, the final survey plat and the surveyor's affidavit must be
				  filed for acceptance by the division. The survey and platting criteria
				  established by the division, before May 4, 1978 are the criteria for surveying
				  land entered upon before that date, and in such cases the following surveyor's
				  affidavit must be presented with the open-to-entry plat and the field notes:
(surveyor's name)
I, . . . . . . . ., being first duly sworn, hereby depose
					 and say that the following matters are true and correct to the best of my
					 knowledge and belief:
1. I am properly
				  registered and licensed to practice land surveying in the State of Alaska. The
				  surveyor's field notes which are attached hereto and made a part hereof
				  represent Alaska State Land Survey No . . . . . . . ., which was made by me or
				  under my direct supervision.
2. All
				  field work has been accomplished in accordance with
				  AS
				  38.05.077 and with Division of Lands survey
				  and plat criteria, as authorized by
				  AS
				  38.05.077.
3. The monuments as shown on the field notes and as displayed on
				  the plat of survey actually exist, and dimensions and other details are
				  correct.
(date)
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Date
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Registered Land Surveyor
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Register No. . . . ..
NOTARY'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Subscribed and sworn to before me this . . . . . . . . day
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(signature)
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Notary for Alaska
(date)
My commission expires: . . . . . . . .