New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 12 - TRADE, COMMERCE AND BANKING › Chapter 8 - TRADE PRACTICES AND REGULATIONS › Part 2 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR SURVEYING IN NEW MEXICO › Section 12.8.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
Professional competency and performance:
A surveyor shall provide
				competent representation to the client, their employer and the public interest.
				Competent surveying practice requires the knowledge, skill, thoroughness, and
				preparation reasonably necessary for the engagement including the assessment of
				which his/her skills, knowledge and experience befits the needs of the client
				and to advise or otherwise direct or decline the work based on that assessment
				of their personal and professional competency.
B.
Types of Surveying:
(1)
Boundary surveying
is the
				determination, description, portraying, measuring or monumentation of the
				boundaries of a tract of land and reflecting the relationship of the boundaries
				of the surveyed property (i.e. contiguity, gaps, or overlaps) with its
				adjoiners, where ascertainable from record documents or from field evidence
				gathered during the process of conducting the survey of the property being
				surveyed. If the surveyed property is composed of multiple parcels, the extent
				of any gaps or overlaps between those parcels shall be identified.
(2)
Improvement location
				reporting
is the preparation of a report which complies with all of the
				requirements and limitations of an improvement location report as set forth in
				12.8.2.10
				NMAC, and which is issued to a title, abstract or escrow company or a lending
				institution for their exclusive use in determining such things as insurability
				or value of a tract of land.
(3)
Topographic surveying
is the measurement and portrayal of the
				configuration of the ground or the location and description of objects thereon.
				It can include the plotting and description of property boundary monuments and
				property lines on a topographic map. Unless a boundary survey is being
				conducted simultaneously, only existing monuments found at the time of the
				survey are shown, and no boundary monuments are set; and the following words
				are prominently shown on the topographic map: THIS IS NOT A BOUNDARY SURVEY OR
				A RIGHT-OF-WAY SURVEY. APPARENT PROPERTY CORNERS, RIGHT-OF-WAY LINES, OR
				PROPERTY LINES AS SHOWN ARE DERIVED FROM RECORD SURVEY PLATS, RIGHT-OF-WAY
				MAPS, OR DEEDS REFERENCED HEREON AND ARE NOT GUARANTEED OR TO BE RELIED ON FOR
				THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PROPERTY LINES.
(4)
Easement surveying
is the
				description, portrayal, or monumentation of easement(s) only.
(5)
Right-of-way surveying
is
				boundary surveying of existing right-of-way lines, which may include the
				boundary survey of adjoining property lines, for locating existing or proposed
				right-of-way.
(6)
Condominium
				surveying-
when performing or preparing a survey that falls under the
				Condominium Act (Article 7B), the survey requirements (Article 47-7B-9 or
				subsequent amendments) of said act shall be the standards to which the survey
				shall be held.
(7)
Preparation of legal descriptions-
the preparation of legal
				descriptions is a form of surveying and, other than the citing of a lot or
				parcel for reference or identification purposes of a duly recorded plat, must
				be performed by a licensed professional surveyor.
(8)
An ALTA/NSPS survey
is a
				boundary survey. Therefore, a plat of survey must be recorded. The filed survey
				can be a separate plat and need not include all the detail of the ALTA/NSPS
				survey but only the improvements affecting the boundary are required to be
				shown (See Subsection J of
				12.8.2.9
				NMAC).
(9)
Control
				surveying
is the establishment of horizontal or vertical controls which
				will be the basis for future phases of a project including, but not limited to:
				extraction of geospatial data, engineering design projects, construction
				staking, surveys to layout horizontal and vertical alignments, topographic
				surveys using field methods, collection of topographic and planimetric data
				using photogrammetric methods and construction surveys of engineering or
				architectural public works projects.
(10)
Unclassified surveying
is
				surveying not defined above.