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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 1 - Land Records System › 11 AAC 53.040 - Availability

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as provided in sec. 50 of this
				  chapter, any document produced and maintained in the division's land records
				  system is available to the public for inspection and copying during regular
				  business hours in accordance with
				  AS
				  40.25.110.
(b) On request, the division will supply a
				  certified true copy of any available document maintained in its land records
				  system. A fee is charged for all copies in accordance with a fee schedule
				  posted at each of the district offices of the division.
As of Register 175 (October 2005), the regulations
						attorney made a technical revision under
						AS
						44.62.125(b)(6), to
						11 AAC 53.040(a).
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS 38.05.035
AS 40.25.110
AS
						40.25.120
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 1 - Land Records System › 11 AAC 53.050 - Confidentiality

Current through May 31, 2024
Documents requested to be kept confidential under
					 AS
					 38.05.035(a)(9) or required
					 to be kept confidential under
					 AS
					 40.25.120 are not available for inspection or
					 copying.
As of Register 175 (October 2005), the regulations
						attorney made a technical revision under
						AS
						44.62.125(b)(6), to
						11 AAC 53.050.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS 38.05.035
AS
						40.25.120
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.100 - Applicability

Current through May 31, 2024
Secs. 100 - 260 of this chapter set out the minimum
					 requirements applicable to surveys of state land. However, if the land is
					 within a municipality whose survey ordinances are stricter than the provisions
					 of secs. 100 - 260 of this chapter, the survey must be done in accordance with
					 those stricter ordinances. If the municipality waives the requirements of its
					 survey ordinances for a specific case, secs. 100 - 260 of this chapter are the
					 only applicable requirements. The director may, at his sole discretion, waive
					 any of the provisions of secs. 100 - 260 of this chapter not required by law,
					 if he finds the circumstances warrant.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS
						38.05.035
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.110 - General survey standards

Current through May 31, 2024
All survey work must be accomplished with equipment and
					 procedures sufficient to insure at least the degree of accuracy prescribed in
					 this section for the class of survey required.
(1) Class I Surveys. This class of survey is
				  for control surveys where accuracy greater than 1:10,000 is required. It is
				  required by the division for, but is not limited to
(A) extension of the geodetic control from
				  existing networks into areas where cadastral surveys are to be established in
				  accordance with the official protraction diagrams; and
(B) establishing control survey networks to
				  National Geodetic Survey accuracy.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.120 - Technical survey standards

Current through May 31, 2024
The technical standards in this section control specific
					 survey procedures.
(1) Mean high tide
(A) in the case of unoccupied and unimproved
				  tide and submerged lands not seaward of an incorporated municipality, the line
				  of mean high tide must be determined in accordance with (B) - (D) of this
				  subsection and used as the landward boundary; in the case of occupied and
				  improved tide and submerged land, either the original meander line established
				  before statehood of the line of mean high tide, whichever is the higher, must
				  be reestablished or determined and used as the landward boundary
				  line;
(B) for tideland surveys
				  abutting any U.S. survey made after the date of statehood or in any location
				  where no upland survey exists, the line of mean high tide must be determined by
				  using National Geodetic Survey bench marks (or any other bench marks that have
				  been established from that source), and the tide table datum; the upland
				  boundary need not follow this line exactly, but may follow in a "meander" or
				  "average" line of mean high tide; each end of the boundary must be established
				  on the elevation of mean high tide;
(C) if no National Geodetic Survey bench mark
				  exists within one mile of the property being surveyed, the surveyor may, by
				  using the tide tables for the immediate body of water and applying tidal
				  readings he has taken, determine the line of mean high tide; and
(D) in some cases, such as salt or mud flat
				  areas where the average grade of the beach is one percent or less, and where
				  determining the elevation of the line of mean high tide could create a lengthy
				  horizontal distance, the director may nevertheless require that the true line
				  of mean high tide be established using the procedures of (B) of this paragraph,
				  regardless of the distance from a known bench mark.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.130 - Types of surveys

Current through May 31, 2024
There are four general types of surveys: rectangular
					 surveys, supplemental cadastral rectangular surveys, metes and bounds surveys,
					 and municipal land selection surveys.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS
						38.05.035
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.140 - Rectangular surveys

Current through May 31, 2024
Rectangular surveys, including homesite surveys and public
					 and private recreation site surveys, must adhere to Class III survey standards,
					 unless the division authorizes the use of Class IV standards, and must follow
					 the survey and platting requirements of this chapter. Survey or platting
					 criteria unique to a particular survey will be set out in special survey
					 instructions issued by the division.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS
						38.05.035
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.170 - Municipal land selection surveys

Current through May 31, 2024
Any survey of a municipal land selection done to comply
					 with AS 29.18.207(c) must meet the requirements of the following sections of
					 this chapter, but is exempt from the remainder of the chapter:
(1) all of sec. 100, and all of sec. 110
				  except for (1), (2), and (5);
(2)
				  all of sec. 120;
(3) all of sec.
				  150(a), except that for a Category I survey the municipality need monument only
				  the exterior boundary of the selection; for a Category II survey the
				  municipality need monument only interior lines of the township along the
				  exterior boundary of the selection, and no further survey is required if the
				  entire township or remainder is selected; for a Category III survey the
				  municipality need monument only interior lines of the township along the
				  exterior boundary of the selection that have not been previously monumented,
				  and no further survey is required if the entire remainder of the township is
				  selected;
(4) all of secs. 160(a),
				  except that no preliminary plat is required; all of secs. 190(a), (b), and (d),
				  200, 210, 230, and 240;
(5) all of
				  sec. 300, except for the first paragraph, in lieu of which the following
				  applies: all easements and rights-of-way of record, as well as those being
				  dedicated, must be shown on the plat, but need not be surveyed; except as
				  otherwise provided by law, easements reserved under this section are vested in
				  the public; easements and rights-of-way of at least the widths listed in this
				  section must be dedicated and shown on the plat;
(6) sec. 350(a)(1) and (a)(2) will apply only
				  if management authority for the easement has not been transferred to the
				  municipality; the director may not require that easements reserved under sec.
				  330 of this chapter be surveyed, but they must be shown on the plat;
(7) all applicable portions of sec.
				  500.
Authority:
AS 29.18.207
AS 29.18.212
AS 38.04.045
AS 38.04.050
AS 38.04.055
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS
						38.05.127
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.180 - Deposit for survey costs

Current through May 31, 2024
At the discretion of the director, for a parcel that is
					 unsurveyed at the time of entry, the applicant may be allowed to deposit with
					 the division the plat review and filing fees prescribed by 11 AAC 05.240, plus
					 an amount estimated by the division as sufficient to cover the cost of
					 surveying the parcel. The division will then be responsible for surveying the
					 parcel and preparing the plat before the expiration of any time limits imposed
					 by law. If the amount of money deposited by the applicant for the survey costs
					 is not sufficient to cover the division's actual survey and plat preparation
					 costs, the division will require the applicant to pay the remaining costs
					 before it passes title to the applicant. If the amount of money deposited for
					 the survey costs exceeds the division's actual survey and plat preparation
					 costs, the division will refund the excess money to the applicant.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS
						38.05.035
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.190 - Monuments

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Primary monuments must be established for
				  surveys as set forth in this subsection. A primary monument must consist of a
				  minimum two-inch diameter metal pipe, at least 30 inches long, with a minimum
				  four-inch flange at the bottom. A minimum two-and-one-half-inch diameter metal
				  cap must be permanently attached at the top. If both the cap and the pipe are
				  of nonferrous metal, then additives with magnetic qualities must be permanently
				  attached at both the top and bottom of the monument. Every primary monument cap
				  must be permanently stamped with the year set, the surveyor's registration
				  number, and the corner identification. This data must be orientated so that the
				  data may be read when the reader is facing north. Monuments and accessories
				  found in a disturbed condition must be returned to the original position and
				  condition as nearly as possible or replaced so as to perpetuate the position.
(1) Every survey must have a minimum of four
				  primary monuments set or recovered within the bounds of the survey.
(2) No portion of a survey or subdivision may
				  be more than 1,320 feet from a primary monument.
(3) All angle points along an exterior survey
				  boundary must have a primary monument.
(4) Primary monuments along an exterior
				  boundary may not be situated more than 1,320 feet apart.
(5) If adjacent exterior boundary monuments
				  are not intervisible, then an intermediate primary monument that is
				  intervisible must be set.
(6) If an
				  exterior boundary line is less than 2,640 feet but more than 1,320 feet long,
				  then the intermediate primary monument must be set as close to the midpoint as
				  practical.
(7) If the point for a
				  primary monument is in a place that would be impractical to monument because of
				  natural obstacles such as water bodies, a witness corner must be set. The
				  witness distance must be shown on the plat of survey, from the existing
				  monument, as set, to the true corner position. Witness corners must always be
				  set on a survey property line and at a distance considered reasonable and
				  practical from the true corner point. Witness corners must comply with the
				  standards for primary monuments.
(8) If it is impractical to set the primary
				  monument, one of the following may be substituted, with monument accessories as
				  required in sec. 200 of this chapter:
(A) a
				  cross marked in a firm stone;
(B) a
				  cap grouted into a firm stone; or
(C) a durable tablet containing a minimum of
				  1,000 cubic inches of concrete and a cap marking the actual corner
				  point.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.200 - Monument accessories

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) All primary monuments must be referenced
				  to at least three bearing trees or objects surveyed to a Class IV survey
				  standard, or two reference monuments surveyed to a Class III survey standard.
(1) If bearing trees or objects are used,
				  they must be located as nearly as possible at equal angles, and may not be
				  farther away than 100 feet from the monument. Reference monuments must be used
				  if no suitable object exists within 100 feet. The distance to trees or objects
				  must be measured at waist height, and in the case of trees, measured to the
				  center of the tree, with distances reduced to a horizontal equivalent. Bearing
				  trees must be marked with nonferrous metal tags of at least nine square inches
				  in size, which must be placed facing the monument. These tags must be clearly
				  and permanently marked as to the corner nomenclature and distance.
(2) If reference monuments are necessary, two
				  must be used, and they must meet the secondary monument standards of sec.
				  190(b) of this chapter. These monuments must be placed on a property line or at
				  right angles to the monument being referenced and may not be farther than 100
				  feet from the monument being referenced. In addition, they must be marked with
				  the nomenclature and distance to the monument being referenced.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.220 - Preliminary plat standards

Current through May 31, 2024
In specific instances, the director may require or waive
					 the requirement for a preliminary plat. The purpose of the preliminary plat is
					 to afford an opportunity to receive preliminary review of an intended survey
					 and prevent unnecessary expenditure of money and time that would occur if major
					 changes were required after final platting. Conditional approval of the
					 preliminary plat does not constitute approval of the final plat. Rather, it is
					 an expression of approval as a guide to preparation of the final plat. The
					 following are minimum standards for the preliminary plat:
(1) The format of the preliminary plat must
				  comply with the general plat standards as set forth in sec. 210 of this
				  chapter.
(2) A property description
				  of the location, including latitude and longitude to an accuracy commensurate
				  with the class of survey, must be shown at one monumented corner of the survey;
				  the total acres of the area to be surveyed must be shown.
(3) The name and address of occupant or
				  applicant must be shown.
(4) If the
				  preliminary plat is prepared by a land surveyor, the surveyor's seal must be
				  properly affixed and signed.
(5) As
				  applicable, the locations of fill material, existing permanent buildings or
				  other structures within the parcel, existing utility lines, mean high and mean
				  low tide lines, and other permanent features, such as section lines and
				  municipal or corporation boundaries within the parcel, must be shown on the
				  plat. All roads inside or within 200 feet of the parcel also must be shown. The
				  director may require that the approximate grades of roads, general topography,
				  preliminary lot configuration, and the proposed location of common areas be
				  shown.
(6) The names of adjacent
				  owners or claimants, or an indication that the land is not owned or claimed,
				  adjacent U.S. surveys, private surveys or subdivisions, and Alaska state land
				  surveys must be shown.
(7) The
				  original or a good quality reproducible of the preliminary plat must be
				  submitted to the division for review, with five blackline or blueline
				  prints.
(8) Applicable
				  certification as required by sec. 210(16) and (17) of this chapter must be
				  shown, but should not be signed or notarized.
Authority:
AS
						08.48.221
AS 38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS
						38.05.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.230 - Final plat standards

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) All final plats must conform to the
				  general plat standards stated in sec. 210 of this chapter, and in addition must
(1) have the notary's seal and surveyor's
				  seal properly affixed;
(2) be
				  presented to the division with the original or a good quality reproducible
				  mylar with five blackline prints;
(3) have the original or reproducible and all
				  prints with all original signatures in all of the required places and in black
				  ink only; and
(4) after final
				  approval by the division and by a municipal platting authority, if applicable,
				  be submitted to the district recorder's office for the recording district
				  within which the land surveyed lies, for official filing; if the land surveyed
				  lies in more than one recording district, the plat must be submitted to each
				  for filing.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.240 - Technical appeals

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Before giving technical approval to a
				  plat of survey prepared for the division, the director shall attempt to give
				  written notice to all persons owning land bordering on the survey, stating that
				  he proposes to accept the survey and plat and that the adjacent landowner may
				  review the plat and file a written technical appeal within 30 days after the
				  notice is mailed. If no technical appeal is filed, the director shall accept
				  the plat.
(b) If a technical appeal
				  is filed in writing with the division, the director may, at his discretion,
				  hold a technical hearing with the appellant. After the hearing is held, the
				  director may allow the appellant 15 days to hire an independent professional
				  surveyor, at the appellant's expense, to review the plat and survey data and
				  submit written technical reasons why the division should not approve the
				  survey. The director may thereafter, at his discretion, accept or reject the
				  survey.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS
						38.05.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 2 - Survey and Platting Standards › 11 AAC 53.260 - Amended plat

Current through May 31, 2024
If a technical error is detected on an officially filed
					 plat, and if the commissioner determines that the error's correction will not
					 adversely affect any valid existing right, the following correction procedure
					 may be used in place of the replat procedure of
					 11 AAC 53.730:
(1) immediately above the title block on the
				  original filed plat, the statement "Amended Plat" must be placed in bold
				  letters;
(2) repealed
				  7/5/2001;
(3) the following
				  separate certification must be prepared and presented with the original amended
				  plat to the appropriate district recorder's office for filing:
CERTIFICATION
Name of plat, subdivision:............
The above-referenced subdivision plat as filed in
					 the.................... recording office under plat file number...... has been
					 revised as follows:
............
(revision)
The above revision constitutes the sole change made to the
					 plat aside from the notation above the title block on the plat. The above
					 revision does not affect any valid existing rights. I am therefore submitting
					 this plat for refiling as corrected.
Date.................... Registration
					 Number............
(surveyor's seal)
(signature in black ink)
............
Registered Land Surveyor
(4) a true and certified blueline copy of the
				  filed amended plat and a copy of the recorded certification must be submitted
				  to the department within 14 days after filing and recording. The copy of the
				  certification must be made by a mechanical reproduction process that produces a
				  permanent copy.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS 38.05.020
AS 40.15.305
AS
						40.15.370
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 3 - Easements and Rights-of-Way › 11 AAC 53.300 - Easements and rights-of-way (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
The subject matter of
						11 AAC 53.300 was relocated to
						11 AAC 51.015.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 3 - Easements and Rights-of-Way › 11 AAC 53.305 - Access and utility easements to mental health trust land (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
The subject matter of
						11 AAC 53.305 was relocated to
						11 AAC 51.085.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 3 - Easements and Rights-of-Way › 11 AAC 53.310 - Determination of navigable and public water (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
The subject matter of
						11 AAC 53.310 was relocated to
						11 AAC 51.035.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 3 - Easements and Rights-of-Way › 11 AAC 53.320 - Written decision concerning easements (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
The subject matter of
						11 AAC 53.320 was relocated to
						11 AAC 51.035.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 3 - Easements and Rights-of-Way › 11 AAC 53.330 - Easements to and along navigable and public water (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
The subject matter of
						11 AAC 53.330 was relocated to
						11 AAC 51.045.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 3 - Easements and Rights-of-Way › 11 AAC 53.350 - Surveying and field marking of easements (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
The subject matter of
						11 AAC 53.350 was relocated to
						11 AAC 51.075.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 4 - Subdivision Development Standards › 11 AAC 53.400 - Subdivision development standards

Current through May 31, 2024
Secs. 400 - 450 of this chapter set out the minimum
					 subdivision development standards that are applicable to state land subdivided
					 by the division. However, if the land is within a municipality whose
					 subdivision ordinances are stricter than the provisions of secs. 400 - 450 of
					 this chapter, the subdivision must be done in accordance with those stricter
					 ordinances, except any ordinance relating to construction of access roads or
					 capital improvements.
Authority:
AS 29.33.150(b)
AS 38.04.045
AS 38.04.050
AS
						38.04.900
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 4 - Subdivision Development Standards › 11 AAC 53.410 - Subdivision

Current through May 31, 2024
Within third-class boroughs and the unorganized borough, a
					 quarter-quarter section, or other aliquot part division containing
					 approximately 40 acres, is the smallest parcel that may be created by aliquot
					 parts without the preparation of a plat. The director shall determine, on a
					 case-by-case basis, the maximum parcel size for disposal that may be created
					 from existing data on a paper plat.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS
						38.05.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 4 - Subdivision Development Standards › 11 AAC 53.420 - Access

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Legal access must be provided to the
				  subdivision. At the director's discretion, physical access may be constructed,
				  including roads, trails, airfields, and docks which will be constructed to
				  standards established by the division for the type of facility
				  needed.
(b) Where appropriate, the
				  director may contract for the construction of subdivision access roads with
				  payment to be made in land credit certificates issued by the division.
(1) Certificates will be issued in
				  denominations of $1,000, $500, $100 and $10.
(2) Certificates are assignable. The
				  assignment becomes effective immediately upon acknowledgement by the
				  division.
(3) Certificates may be
				  used for application fees of all types, including applications for uplands,
				  timber, coal, oil and gas, and mining. They may be used for the payment of
				  rentals, principal payments on purchase contracts, accrued interest, bonuses,
				  royalties, material contracts, bonds required under material sales contracts,
				  stumpage charges, and to offset the cost of plats prepared by the division.
				  Land credit certificates will not be accepted for oil and gas bonds, mining
				  lease bonds, or timber contract bonds, nor may they be used to cover the cost
				  of or deposits for survey or advertising.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 4 - Subdivision Development Standards › 11 AAC 53.430 - Sewer and water systems

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  subdivision's sewer and water systems, whether on-site, community, or public,
				  must comply with the requirements of the Department of Environmental
				  Conservation in 18 AAC 70 and 72.
(b) If land subdivided by the division is not
				  suitable for on-site sewer or water systems, the director may contract to
				  construct a community sewer or water system meeting the requirements of the
				  Department of Environmental Conservation or the local platting authority, or to
				  tie into a public sewer or water system. Costs will be prorated among the
				  disposal parcels in the subdivision on the basis of acreage in each parcel or
				  road frontage, whichever is more equitable.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.045
AS 38.04.900
AS
						38.05.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 4 - Subdivision Development Standards › 11 AAC 53.440 - Utility easements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The director shall consult with the
				  utility companies in whose service area the subdivision lies to insure that the
				  utility easements reserved are of adequate width.
(b) If no utility company presently provides
				  service to the area, a utility easement 20 feet wide must be reserved to allow
				  future service to each parcel.
Authority:
AS
						38.04.050
AS 38.04.900
AS
						38.05.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 4 - Subdivision Development Standards › 11 AAC 53.450 - Buffer strips, reserved areas, and public easements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When the
				  division subdivides land adjacent to a highway that is part of the state's
				  primary or secondary road system, a strip of land having a common boundary with
				  the highway right-of-way must be reserved and retained in public ownership as a
				  buffer strip. The width will be approximately 300 feet, measuring outward from
				  the boundary of the right-of-way, but the director may require that a wider or
				  narrower buffer strip be reserved, depending on vegetative cover, the view from
				  the roadway, topography, highway noise levels, expected future needs for
				  additional transportation facilities, or other relevant factors. However, no
				  buffer strip need be reserved if
(1) the
				  parcel being disposed of is an isolated one already surrounded by private land
				  cleared and developed to the right-of-way, so that no reasonably continuous
				  buffer strip is feasible; or
(2)
				  existing land use on adjacent parcels, or existing land use policy as set forth
				  in a local comprehensive plan or a land use plan prepared by the division,
				  clearly indicates that retaining a buffer strip is unnecessary or
				  undesirable.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.600 - Purpose

Current through May 31, 2024
The purpose of
					 11 AAC 53.600 -
					 11 AAC 53.740 is to implement
					 AS
					 40.15.300-40.15.380, when the department is
					 the platting authority under
					 AS
					 40.15.070.
Authority:
AS
						40.15.370
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.610 - Applicability

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions of
				  AS
				  40.15.300 -
				  AS
				  40.15.380 do not apply to the following:
(1) a subdivision that creates parcels for
				  the purpose of transferring a leasehold interest is exempt, if
(A) each individual parcel is identified with
				  the words "lease parcel" and the parcel number; and
(B) the following note is shown on the plat:
This subdivision plat is not subject to the Department of
					 Natural Resources' platting authority approval because of
					 AS
					 40.15.360(1), which exempts
					 leasehold parcels. Title to the leasehold parcels depicted on this plat may not
					 be conveyed until the plat has been approved by the appropriate platting
					 authority in accordance with
					 AS
					 40.15.010.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.620 - Submittal

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Plats submitted to the department under
				  AS
				  40.15.305 must include the following:
(1) two full-size paper copies of the
				  plat;
(2) plat review fees required
				  by 11 AAC 05.240;
(3) a certificate
				  to plat that
(A) is prepared by a title
				  company;
(B) shows the names of the
				  owners of record, and all encumbrances affecting the parent parcel;
				  and
(C) is executed no more than 90
				  days before submittal;
(4) supporting documents, including
(A) deeds or plats that created the parent
				  parcel; and
(B) documentation of
				  access to and easements within the parent parcel as required by
				  11 AAC 53.630 or other applicable
				  law;
(5) a lot summary
				  for each parcel in the subdivision.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.630 - Legal access

Current through May 31, 2024
A plat will not be approved under
					 AS
					 40.15.305 unless the
(1) plat clearly shows how access is provided
				  to the subdivision and to each lot within the subdivision;
(2) subdivider provides to the department
				  documentation verifying the existence of public access rights from the
				  subdivision to a road system, public airport, or navigable water body;
				  documentation must be in the form of a plat of record, recorded easement, or
				  reservation; if documentation does not exist, the subdivider may provide
				  documentation that demonstrates that a provision of state or federal law
				  otherwise provides public access rights to the subdivision; and
(3) subdivider obtains written comments
				  regarding utility easements within the subdivision from utility companies that
				  serve the subdivision.
Authority:
AS
						40.15.300
AS 40.15.330
AS
						40.15.370
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.640 - Dedication to public

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each right-of-way, easement, or other
				  public area shown on the plat is dedicated to public use under
				  AS
				  40.15.030. By a note or certificate on the
				  plat, the department will accept a dedication under
				  AS
				  40.15.030. Acceptance for public use does not
				  obligate the department, any governing body, or the public to construct,
				  operate, maintain, or manage improvements.
(b) Rights-of-way must be dedicated for
				  access to all lots within the subdivision. Dedications must be sufficient to
				  carry all traffic generated by the subdivision and projected to travel through
				  it and must be sufficient to provide for the maneuvering of emergency
				  vehicles.
(c) This subsection
				  applies to a public right-of-way or easement the department acquires by
				  dedication and acceptance under this section. An owner of land within a platted
				  subdivision is not required to obtain a permit from the department under 11 AAC
				  96 in order to
(1) design, build, sign, and
				  maintain a public road on the public right-of-way or easement;
(2) allow the installation of public
				  utilities on, over, or under the public right-of-way or easement, if they do
				  not impair public access; or
(3)
				  install customary private appurtenances, including a driveway, culvert,
				  mailbox, and address signpost, if they do not impair public access on the
				  public right-of-way or easement.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.650 - Acquisition plats

Current through May 31, 2024
The acquisition of a right-of-way or easement that does not
					 divide a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots is exempt from
					 11 AAC 53.600 -
					 11 AAC 53.730.
Authority:
AS
						40.15.370
AS
						40.15.380
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.660 - Amended plats

Current through May 31, 2024
Amending of plats must be done in conformance with
					 11 AAC 53.260 and requires
					 approval of the department under that section.
Authority:
AS
						40.15.330
AS
						40.15.370
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.670 - Field standards

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The surveyor shall use closed traverse or
				  other generally accepted field survey procedures to verify that the survey
				  achieves the required degree of accuracy.
(b) The error of closure of field survey
				  traverses may not exceed 1:5000.
(c) For subdivisions that are bounded by the
				  mean high water line or the ordinary high water line of navigable or public
				  waters, the boundary must be determined as set out in
				  11 AAC 53.120.
(d) After subdivision of the parent parcel,
				  an unsurveyed remainder will be allowed if the remaining parcel is 40 acres or
				  larger.
Authority:
AS
						40.15.370
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.680 - Monumentation requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In a
				  subdivision with five or fewer lots, the monuments required to be established
				  at controlling exterior corners include each angle point, each point of
				  curvature, and any point on the subdivision exterior boundary that is more than
				  1,320 feet from a monument. Each monument at each controlling exterior corner
				  must consist of a minimum 5/8-inch by 24-inch rebar with a minimum two-inch
				  diameter aluminum cap. For monuments that are
(1) set by a survey under this subsection,
(A) the surveyor shall stamp the cap with the
				  corner identification, year set, and surveyor's registration number, and shall
				  orient this information so that it may be read when the reader is facing north;
				  and
(B) if both the cap and the
				  pipe are nonferrous metal, the surveyor shall permanently attach additives with
				  magnetic qualities at both the top and bottom of the monument; or
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.690 - Plat standards under AS 40.15.300 - 40.15.380

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The final
				  subdivision plat must be clearly and legibly drawn to scale upon good-quality
				  polyester film of Dupont Mylar or equivalent quality. Lines, letters, figures,
				  certifications, acknowledgments, and signatures must be clear and legible. When
				  filed, the plat must be in a condition that permits legible prints and
				  negatives to be made from it for purposes of microfilming survey plats. Lines
				  must be dense black, of consistent widths, and of recognizable width
				  variations. A minimum size 00 pen or size leroy 80 or equivalent mechanical
				  lettering and numbering template may be used for easement lines, details, and
				  notes. Size 80 lettering must be uppercase. Sheets must be 18 inches by 24
				  inches, or 24 inches by 36 inches in size. Margin lines must be placed so as to
				  leave a one-half inch margin on each of the three sides and a one and
				  one-half-inch margin on the binding side.
(b) If more than two sheets are required, an
				  index map must be provided on the first sheet showing the entire subdivision
				  and indicating the portion contained on each sheet. If more than one sheet is
				  submitted, each sheet must be the same size. If more than one sheet must be
				  used to accurately portray the lands subdivided, each sheet must show the
				  particular number of that sheet and the total number of sheets included, and
				  must show clearly labeled match lines to show where other sheets adjoin. All
				  certificates must appear on the first or last sheet.
(c) A scale of one inch equals multiples of
				  10 feet or of 100 feet must be used. The scale used must be both clearly stated
				  and graphically illustrated by a bar scale drawn on every sheet showing any
				  portion of the land subdivided.
(d)
				  A title block in the lower right corner of each sheet must show
(1) the name by which the subdivision may be
				  legally known;
(2) a property
				  description of the parent parcel showing the protracted or surveyed section,
				  township and range, meridian, and total area in acres of the proposed
				  subdivision;
(3) the name and
				  address of the registered land surveyor preparing the plat;
(4) the plat scale;
(5) the date of survey and date of plat
				  preparation;
(6) the recording
				  district; and
(7) the platting
				  authority (PA) number assigned by the department.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.700 - Certificates

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The plat approval certificate set out in
				  AS
				  40.15.305(b) must be shown
				  on all plats that are subject to the department's platting authority under
				  AS
				  40.15.070.
(b) The following note must be shown below
				  the plat approval certificate, unless the acceptance of dedication certificate
				  must be used under (c) of this section:
By approval of this plat, the Commissioner of the
					 Department of Natural Resources hereby accepts for public use and public
					 purposes the real property dedicated to the public hereon, including easements,
					 rights-of-way, alleys, and roadways. The acceptance of such dedicated areas for
					 public use and public purposes does not obligate the department, any governing
					 body, or the public to construct, operate, maintain, or manage
					 improvements.
(c) Plats for
				  subdivisions of land in municipalities that do not exercise platting authority
				  must contain an acceptance of dedication certificate from the mayor or other
				  elected municipal official authorized to accept dedications. Nothing in this
				  section impairs the right of the mayor or other authorized municipal official
				  to refuse a dedication for reasonable public cause, consistent with applicable
				  municipal ordinances. The acceptance of dedication certificate, available on a
				  form provided by the department, must be shown substantially as follows, with
				  the headings capitalized and underlined:
ACCEPTANCE OF DEDICATION
:QL The Mayor hereby accepts for public uses and for public
					 purposes the real property dedicated to the public by this plat including
					 easements, rights-of-way, alleys, and roadways shown on this plat. The
					 acceptance of lands for public use or public purpose does not obligate the
					 public or any governing body to construct, operate, or maintain
					 improvements.
Date............... Mayor...................
(d) Each plat must show a surveyor's
				  certificate, shown substantially as set out in
				  11 AAC 53.210, and available on a
				  form provided by the department.
(e) One or more of the following certificates
				  must be shown on the plat as appropriate to the land action to be recorded, and
				  must use the language set out in and available on forms provided by the
				  department, as revised as of June 6, 2000 and adopted by reference:
(1) a certificate of ownership and dedication
				  with notary acknowledgement;
(2) a
				  certification of ownership with notary acknowledgement;
(3) a certificate of beneficiary with notary
				  acknowledgement; in lieu of a signed certificate of beneficiary on the plat, an
				  affidavit of beneficiary, in the form provided by the department as revised as
				  of June 6, 2000 and adopted by reference, may be submitted.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.710 - Notes

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as provided in (b) of this
				  section, the following notes must be shown on the plat as applicable:
(1) "The error of closure of this survey does
				  not exceed 1:5000."
(2) "All
				  bearings shown are true bearings as oriented to the basis of bearing and the
				  distances shown are reduced to horizontal field distances."
(3) "The natural meanders of ordinary high
				  water [or mean high water line, as applicable] form the true bounds of [parcel
				  name]. The approximate line of ordinary high water [or mean high water], as
				  shown, is for area computations only, the true corners being on the extension
				  of the sidelines and their intersection with the natural meanders."
(4) "Restrictive covenants were recorded on
				  [date] in book [number], page [number], [name] Recording District."
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 53 - Records, Surveys, and Platting › Article 5 - Platting Authority in the Unorganized Borough › 11 AAC 53.720 - Final plat submittal under AS 40.15.300

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A final plat
				  must conform to
				  11 AAC 53.600 -
				  11 AAC 53.740 and be free of tape,
				  repairs, paste-on materials, or other appliques. If those materials were used
				  in plat production, a blackline copy, on polyester film of Dupont Mylar or
				  equivalent quality, may be used as a new original, if the copy maintains the
				  density of line, clarity of background, accuracy, and other qualities of a
				  normal original. Reproducible copies duplicated by ammonia or photostatic
				  process will not be accepted.
(b)
				  Submittal of a final plat must include the following:
(1) the reproducible final plat and one
				  blackline print must be submitted for approval to the department; the print
				  must be made before any certificates or acknowledgments on the reproducible
				  final plat are signed and before any official seals are applied; both the
				  reproducible final plat and the print must be signed and sealed separately in
				  black ink;
(2) an update to the
				  certificate to plat required under
				  11 AAC 53.620(a) (3), or the title status report described in
				  11 AAC 53.610(b)
				  as applicable, executed no more than 90 days before final plat approval, must
				  be submitted with the plat;
(3)
				  each plat at the time of filing for record must have a signed certificate from
				  the tax-collecting official of the municipality in which the land is located
				  stating that all taxes levied against the property as of the date of the
				  certificate are paid or, if the parcel is inside the boundaries of a
				  municipality that does not exercise taxing authority or is outside of a
				  municipality, a certificate on the plat that the parcel is not subject to
				  taxation at the date of this survey;
(4) recording fees must be paid in accordance
				  with 11 AAC 05.200.