Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4733 - State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors › Chapter 4733-37 - Standards for Boundary Surveys › Section 4733-37-05 - Plat of survey

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The surveyor shall prepare a scale
			 drawing of every survey in which the surveyor retraces previously established
			 property lines or establishes new boundaries.
(B) A copy of this drawing shall be given to
			 the client. When required, another copy shall be filed with the appropriate
			 public agencies.
(C) The surveyor
			 shall include the following details:
(1) A
			 title such that the general location of the survey can be identified. The title
			 shall include, but not be limited to: state, county, civil township or
			 municipality, and original land subdivision description.
(2) A north arrow with a clear statement as
			 to the basis of the reference direction used.
(3) The control station(s) or line(s) cited
			 in the description and the relationship of the property to this control must be
			 referenced to an established monumented point of beginning such as, but not
			 limited to: centerline intersection of streets or highways of record, section
			 or quarter section corners, Virginia military survey corners, or platted lot
			 corners. The type of monuments set or found at the control stations shall be
			 noted. All evidence used to establish the boundaries shall be shown or
			 noted.
(4) A notation at each
			 corner of the property stating that the boundary monument was found or set, or
			 a legend of the symbols used to identify monumentation. Each monument found or
			 set shall be described as to its size, material and character.
(5) A general notation describing the
			 evidence of occupation that may be found along every boundary line or
			 occupation line.
(6) The length and
			 direction of each line as specified in the description of the property or as
			 determined in the actual survey if this differs from what is stated in the deed
			 description by more than the tolerance specified in paragraph (B) of rule
			 4733-37-04
			 of the Administrative Code. The length and direction shall be stated as
			 follows:
(a) Bearings expressed in degrees,
			 minutes and seconds and distances expressed in feet and decimal parts thereof
			 on each course. If a metric equivalent distance is stated, it shall be stated
			 to the third decimal place.
(b) All
			 curved lines shall indicate the radius, central angle, curve length, chord
			 bearing and chord distance.
(c)
			 Each course shall show other common lines such as centerline of roads, rivers,
			 streams, section lines, quarter section lines, half section lines or other
			 pertinent common lines of record.
(7) A citation of pertinent documents and
			 sources of data used as a basis for carrying out the work. The citation shall
			 include, but not be limited to: current deeds as of the date of the survey,
			 prior deeds or other documents of record, and available deeds of record for
			 adjoining parcels along each boundary line of the survey. If the adjoining
			 parcel is a recorded subdivision, only the subdivision name, recording
			 information and lot numbers need to be shown.
(8) The written and graphical scale of the
			 drawing.
(9) The date of the
			 survey.
(10) The surveyor's printed
			 name and Ohio registration number, signature and seal (in a form which may
			 clearly reproduce on any copies which may be made of the original
			 drawing).
(11) The area contained
			 within the perimeter of the surveyed parcel.
(12) All references to roads or railroads
			 contiguous to the surveyed parcel shall use current names or names of record
			 and applicable right of way widths, if available.
(13) All references to rivers or streams
			 shall use current names of record, if available.