§ 38-53-102. Applicability – State – County – Local – Persons
The provisions of this article shall apply to all agencies of state, county, and local government as well as to individuals, corporations, and partnerships engaged in the private practice of land surveying. Source: L. 94: Entire article R&RE, p. 1522, § 48, effective July 1. Editor’s note: This section is similar to former § 38-53-111, […]
§ 38-51-106. Land Survey Plats
All land survey plats shall include but shall not be limited to the following: A scale drawing of the boundaries of the land parcel; All recorded and apparent rights-of-way and easements, and, if research for recorded rights-of-way and easements is done by someone other than the professional land surveyor who prepares the plat, the source […]
§ 38-53-103. Definitions
As used in this article 53, unless the context otherwise requires: “Accessory” means any physical evidence in the vicinity of a survey monument, the relative location of which is of public record and which is used to help perpetuate the location of the monument. Accessories shall be construed to include the accessories recorded in the […]
§ 38-51-107. Required Plats
Every professional land surveyor who accepts a monument while performing a monumented land survey shall prepare and deposit a plat if such monument is not of record either in the clerk and recorder’s office of the county in which the monument lies or in the public office designated by the county commissioners pursuant to section […]
§ 38-51-108. Improvement Location Certificate
A professional land surveyor may prepare an improvement location certificate for the use of a specific client based upon the professional land surveyor’s general knowledge of land boundaries and monuments in a given area whether or not the client is the owner or buyer; except that, if the client is not the owner or buyer, […]
§ 38-51-109. Unlawful Sale
It is unlawful for any person to offer to sell, to sell, or otherwise to receive remuneration for any map or plat which purports to be a survey map or plat unless such map or plat conforms with the standards, requirements, and terminology of the provisions of this article. It is unlawful for any person […]
§ 38-51-109.3. Geographic Information System Positions – Professional Land Surveyor
A professional land surveyor shall be exempt from the requirements of section 38-51-103 when making a GIS land position determination. A GIS land position made by a professional land surveyor shall have the following limitations: It does not meet the requirements of a land survey as defined in section 38-51-102 (11). It shall not establish […]
§ 38-51-110. Violations
It is the responsibility of the district attorneys of this state to prosecute any person suspected of willfully and knowingly violating this article. Any person, including the responsible official of any agency of state, county, or local government, who willfully and knowingly violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall […]
§ 38-51-111. Surveyor’s Affidavit of Correction
If an error described in subsection (2) of this section is discovered on any subdivision plat, land survey plat, or any other survey plat or parcel description duly recorded in the clerk and recorder’s office of the county in which the subdivision, land, or parcel is situated, the professional land surveyor of record may prepare […]
§ 38-52-101. Colorado Coordinate System Zones Defined
The systems of plane coordinates which have been established by the national ocean service/national geodetic survey (formerly the United States coast and geodetic survey) or its successors for defining and stating the geographic positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth within the state of Colorado are, on and after July 1, […]