Washington Administrative Code › Title 332 - Natural Resources, Board and Department of (See also Title 222) › Chapter 332-130 - Minimum standards for land boundary surveys and geodetic control surveys and guidelines for the preparation of land descriptions › Section 332-130-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
(1)
Local geodetic control
			 surveys:
Surveys for the specific purpose of establishing control points
			 for extending the National Geodetic Survey horizontal and vertical control
			 nets, also known as the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), but not
			 submitted to the National Geodetic Survey for inclusion in the NSRS.
(2)
GLO and BLM:
The General
			 Land Office and its successor, the Bureau of Land Management.
(3)
Land boundary surveys:
All
			 surveys, whether made by individuals, entities or public bodies of whatever
			 nature, for the specific purpose of establishing, reestablishing, laying out,
			 subdividing, defining, locating and/or monumenting the vertical or horizontal
			 boundary of any easement, right of way, lot, tract, or parcel of real property
			 or which reestablishes or restores General Land Office or Bureau of Land
			 Management survey corners.
(4)
Land corner record:
The record of corner information form as
			 prescribed by the department of natural resources in WAC 332-130-025.
(5)
Land description:
A
			 description of real property or of rights associated with real
			 property.
(6)
Land
			 surveyor:
Any person authorized to practice the profession of land
			 surveying under the provisions of chapter 18.43 RCW.
(7)
Redundant measurements:
Independent observations of a quantity that are collected under different
			 conditions. Horizontal angles measured to a point from multiple backsights,
			 observing reciprocal zenith angles and backsight distances, "closing the
			 horizon," and GNSS positions for a point that are computed using different
			 satellite constellations are examples of redundant measurements.
(8)
Parcel:
A part or portion of
			 real property including but not limited to GLO and BLM segregations, easements,
			 rights of way, aliquot parts of sections or tracts.
(9)
Survey Recording Act:
The
			 law as established and designated in chapter 58.09 RCW.
(10)
Washington plane coordinate
			 system:
The system of plane coordinates as established and designated by
			 chapter 58.20 RCW.
(11)
Intelligent interpretation:
A land boundary survey capable of
			 intelligent interpretation will provide, either on the face of the document or
			 by reference to other pertinent surveys of record, information that is
			 sufficient in kind and quality to explain the rationale for the boundary
			 locations shown thereon and to allow for the accurate and unambiguous
			 retracement or re-creation thereof without requiring oral testimony for
			 clarification. Includes, but is not limited to, information required in RCW
			  58.09.060(1) and WAC 332-130-050.
(12)
Relative accuracy:
Relative
			 accuracy is the theoretical uncertainty in the horizontal position of any
			 subordinate point or corner with respect to other controlling points or
			 corners, whether set, found, reestablished, or established. Relative accuracy
			 is not related to uncertainties due to differences between measured values and
			 record values.
(13)
Relative
			 precision:
An expression of linear misclosure, e.g., 1 part in 5000, in
			 a closed traverse. Relative precision is computed after azimuths in a traverse
			 have been adjusted. Relative precision is not a reliable predictor of relative
			 accuracy.
(14)
Controlling
			 point or corner:
Those points, whose horizontal positions are used to
			 compute, establish or reestablish the horizontal positions of other subordinate
			 points or corners. Subordinate points or corners are therefore dependent upon
			 the positions of controlling points or corners.
(15)
GNSS:
Global navigation
			 satellite system.
(16)
Signature:
A handwritten identification, or a scanned image of a
			 handwritten identification, that represents the act of signing the person's
			 name on a document to attest to its validity. This must be made with black ink
			 on the document being certified; applied to the document by the identified
			 person; and under the exclusive control of the person.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW 58.24.030,
				  58.24.040,
				  58.09.050, and
				  58.17.160. 09-03-084,
				  § 332-130-020, filed 1/20/09, effective 7/1/09. Statutory
				  Authority:
				  Chapter 58.24 RCW. 05-13-104,
				  § 332-130-020, filed 6/17/05, effective 7/18/05. Statutory
				  Authority:
				  RCW 58.09.050 and
				  58.24.040(1).
				  92-03-007 (Order 597), § 332-130-020, filed 1/3/92, effective
				  2/3/92. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  58.24.040(1).
				  91-19-013 (Order 581), § 332-130-020, filed 9/9/91, effective
				  10/10/91; 89-11-028 (Order 561), § 332-130-020, filed 5/11/89;
				  Order 275, § 332-130-020, filed
				  5/2/77.