North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS › Chapter 56 - ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS › Section .1600 - STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR LAND SURVEYING IN NORTH CAROLINA › Section 56 .1602 - SURVEYING PROCEDURES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) A Professional
				Land Surveyor shall spend the necessary time and effort to make investigation
				to determine if there are encroachments, gaps, lappages, or other
				irregularities along each line surveyed. Points may be placed on the line from
				closed or verified traverses and the necessary investigations made from these
				points. If these investigations are not made, then the surveyor shall not
				certify to an actual survey of that line and the plat shall contain the
				appropriate qualifications in accordance with the rules in this
				Section.
(b) Any and all visible or
				determined encroachments or easements on the property being surveyed shall be
				accurately located and indicated.
(c) With respect to investigation of property
				boundaries and recorded easements, the surveyor shall examine the most recent
				deeds and recorded plats adjacent to the subject property as well as all deeds
				and plats recorded after the date of the deed or plat upon which the survey is
				being based (the survey reference deed or plat).
(d) Except as provided in Paragraph (e) of
				the Rule, metal stakes or materials of comparable permanence shall be placed at
				all corners.
(e) Where a corner
				falls in a right-of-way, tree, stream, or on a fence post, boulder, stone, or
				similar object, one or more monuments or metal stakes shall be placed in the
				boundary so that the inaccessible point may be located accurately on the ground
				and the map.
(f) The results of a
				survey shall be reported to the user of that survey as a map or report of
				survey and, whether in written or graphic form, shall be prepared in a clear
				and factual manner. All reference sources shall be identified. Artificial
				monuments called for in such reports shall be described as found or set. When
				no monument is found or set for points described in Paragraph (e) of this Rule,
				that fact shall be noted.
(g) Tie
				lines defined. Where the results of a survey are reported in the form of a plat
				or a written description, one or more corners shall, by a system of azimuths or
				courses and distances, be accurately tied to and coordinated with a horizontal
				control monument of some United States or State Agency survey system, such as
				the North Carolina Geodetic Survey, where such monument is within 2000 feet of
				the subject property, right-of-way, easement or other surveyed entity. Where
				the North Carolina grid system coordinates of said monument are on file in the
				Department of Public Safety, Emergency Management, Geodetic Survey office, the
				coordinates of both the referenced corner or point and the monument(s) shall be
				shown in X (easting) and Y (northing) coordinates on the plat or in the written
				description or document. The coordinates shall be identified as based on "NAD
				83," indicating North American Datum of 1983 or as "NAD 27," indicating North
				American Datum of 1927. The datums of the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) are
				incorporated by reference including subsequent amendments and editions, and may
				be accessed free of charge at www.ngs.noaa.gov. The tie lines to the monuments
				shall be sufficient to establish true north or grid north bearings for the plat
				or description if the monuments exist in pairs. Control monuments within a
				previously recorded subdivision may be used in lieu of grid control. In the
				interest of bearing consistency with previously recorded plats, existing
				bearing control may be used where practical. In the absence of grid control,
				other natural or artificial monuments or landmarks shall be used. In all cases,
				the tie lines shall be sufficient to accurately reproduce the subject lands
				from the control or reference points used.
(h) Area is to be computed by double meridian
				distance or equally accurate method and shown on the face of the plat, written
				description, or other document. Area computations by estimation, by planimeter,
				by scale, or by copying from another source are not acceptable methods, except
				in the case of tracts containing inaccessible areas and in these areas the
				method of computation shall be stated.
Authority
				  G.S.
				  89C-10;
				  89C-20;
Eff. July 1,
				  1989;
Amended Eff. August 1, 2014; August 1, 2012 (see S.L.
				  2012-143, s.1.(f)); September 1, 2011; May 1, 2009; August 1, 2000; August 1,
				  1998; February 1, 1996;
Pursuant to
				  G.S.
				  150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
				  substantive public interest Eff. April 27,
				  2019.