Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 201 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT CABINET › Chapter 18 - Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors › Section 201 KAR 18:150 - Standards of practice

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS 322.290(1)(a),
				(2)(f)
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				322.290(1)(a) authorizes the
				board to administer KRS Chapter 322.
				KRS
				322.290(2)(f) requires the
				board to establish standards of practice. This administrative regulation
				establishes standards of practice for professional land surveyors in
				Kentucky.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Boundary" means the perimeter of a
			 parcel or tract of land.
(2)
			 "Boundary survey" means a survey to:
(a)
			 Determine either the entire perimeter of a parcel or tract of land, or a
			 portion of the perimeter of a parcel or tract of land;
(b) Establish or reestablish a parcel or
			 tract of land's corner or monument; or
(c) Divide or consolidate the parcels or
			 tracts of land surveyed.
(3) "Completion Date of Survey" means the
			 last date when all the monuments were either found or set for the plat of
			 survey area.
(4) "Corner" means a
			 point that designates a change in the direction of the boundary.
(5) "Field work" means that work performed by
			 a land surveyor on the ground in connection with the parcel or tract being
			 surveyed.
(6) "GIS" means
			 Geographic Information System and is any system that captures, stores,
			 analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to a land location and is
			 the merging of cartography and database technology.
(7) "GNSS" means Global Navigation Satellite
			 Systems. The standard generic term for satellite navigation systems that
			 provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global coverage.
(8) "GPS" means the United States NAVSTAR
			 Global Positioning System, a space-based global navigation satellite system
			 that when used in conjunction with suitable GPS receivers and processing
			 software, provides reliable location information to the level of precision
			 specified in this administrative regulation, in all weather and at all times
			 and anywhere on the earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four
			 (4) or more GPS satellites.
(9)
			 "Meander point" means a survey point or station marking a change in direction
			 along a linear feature such as a watercourse, ridge, road, or cliff.
(10) "Monument" means an artificial, manmade
			 or natural object that is used as, or presumed to occupy, any of the following
			 locations:
(a) A property corner;
(b) A point on the boundary; or
(c) A reference point.
(11) "Plat" means any representational
			 drawing created by a land surveyor reflecting work falling within the
			 definition of land surveying.
(12)
			 "Plat of survey" means a finished drawing of a completed survey of a parcel or
			 tract of land, used to depict the final results of a boundary survey, drawn on
			 a dimensionally stable media suitable for reproduction of copies.
(13) "Point on Line" means a point on a
			 boundary line other than a corner.
(14) "Reference monument" means a monument:
(a) That does not occupy the same defined
			 position as a property corner; and
(b) Whose relationship to the corner of the
			 property is established by bearing and distance to the actual corner.
(15) "Relative Positional
			 Accuracy" means the value expressed in feet that represents the uncertainty due
			 to random errors in measurements in the location of any point on a survey
			 relative to any other point on the same survey at the 95 percent confidence
			 level.
(16) "Retracement survey"
			 means a boundary survey of an existing parcel or tract of land.