Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3404

Relating to real property, enacting a new chapter relating to plats,
coordinates, maps and surveysARTICLE 1 PLATSSpecifying the purpose and defining
certain terms; requiring the preparation of plats by licensed land surveyors;
designating municipalities and counties as platting authorities; providing for
the presentation of plats for final approval by platting authorities, for the
submission of plats abutting state highways to the commissioner of
transportation (DOT) for comments or recommendations, for the submission of
plats abutting county highways to the county engineer for comments or
recommendations, for final action on plats by platting authorities, for review
of plats by county surveyors as authorized by the county board and for the
filing or recording of plats; regulating surveys, requiring and providing for
the placement of plat monuments; specifying required graphics, providing for the
showing of certain orientations, public ways, lots, blocks, survey information,
easements, wet lands (wetlands), water and monuments and regulating plat sheets,
designated survey calls, closure accuracy, scale, text and symbols; providing
for documentation and recording; specifying certain powers and duties of county
boards, requiring preparation of a comprehensive major street plan; providing
for vacation of platted land, for correction of recorded plats and for the
validation of certain plats, authorizing petitions to the district court for
orders directing the recording of platsARTICLE 2 MAPS OF PLATS;
RIGHTS-OF-WAYRequiring the preparation of maps or plats by licensed land
surveyors; regulating graphics; providing for right-of-way acquisition and for
filing and recording ARTICLE 3 COORDINATESProviding for a system of state plane
coordinates to define and state the geographic positions or locations of points
on the surface of the earth within the state and for a system of county plane
coordinates to provide a ground level plane coordinate projection system;
providing for X and Y coordinates; referencing and providing for the designation
of certain zones; providing for the use of supplemental coordinates ARTICLE 4
SURVEYSGranting land surveyors access to land for survey purposes, requiring
advance notice to owners or occupants, imposing liability for damages on the
surveyors; specifying certain monument requirements; imposing a penalty for
intentional removal, destruction or defacing of lawfully placed monuments;
specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the
revisor of statutes; repealing certain existing provisions regulating plats,
surveys, maps and coordinates (mk)