RCW 58.09.010 Purpose—Short title. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a method for preserving evidence of land surveys by establishing standards and procedures for monumenting and for recording a public record of the surveys. Its provisions shall be deemed supplementary to existing laws relating to surveys, subdivisions, platting, and boundaries. This chapter shall […]
RCW 58.09.020 Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Land surveyor” shall mean every person authorized to practice the profession of land surveying under the provisions of chapter 18.43 RCW, as now or hereafter amended. (2) “*Washington coordinate system” shall mean that system of plane coordinates as established and designated by chapter 58.20 RCW. (3) […]
RCW 58.09.030 Compliance with chapter required. Any land surveyor engaged in the practice of land surveying may prepare maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other documentary evidence in connection therewith. Every map, plat, report, description, or other document issued by a licensed land surveyor shall comply with the provisions of this chapter whenever such map, plat, […]
RCW 58.09.040 Records of survey—Contents—Filing—Replacing corner, filing record. After making a survey in conformity with sound principles of land surveying, a land surveyor may file a record of survey with the county auditor in the county or counties wherein the lands surveyed are situated. (1) It shall be mandatory, within ninety days after the establishment, […]
RCW 58.09.050 Records of survey—Processing—Requirements. The records of survey to be filed under authority of this chapter shall be processed as follows: (1)(a) The record of survey filed under RCW 58.09.040(1) shall be an original map, eighteen by twenty-four inches, that is legibly drawn in black ink on mylar and is suitable for producing legible […]
RCW 58.09.060 Records of survey, contents—Record of corner, information. (1) The record of survey as required by RCW 58.09.040(1) shall show: (a) All monuments found, set, reset, replaced, or removed, describing their kind, size, and location and giving other data relating thereto; (b) Bearing trees, corner accessories or witness monuments, basis of bearings, bearing and […]
RCW 58.09.070 Coordinates—Map showing control scheme required. When coordinates in the *Washington coordinate system are shown for points on a record of survey map, the map may not be recorded unless it also shows, or is accompanied by a map showing, the control scheme through which the coordinates were determined from points of known coordinates. […]
RCW 58.09.080 Certificates—Required—Forms. Certificates shall appear on the record of survey map as follows: SURVEYOR’S CERTIFICATE This map correctly represents a survey made by me or under my direction in conformance with the requirements of the Survey Recording Act at the request of . . . . . . . . . in . . […]
RCW 58.09.090 When record of survey not required. (1) A record of survey is not required of any survey: (a) When it has been made by a public officer in his or her official capacity and a reproducible copy thereof has been filed with the county engineer of the county in which the land is […]
RCW 58.09.100 Filing fee. The charge for filing any record of survey and/or record of corner information shall be fixed by the board of county commissioners. [ 1973 c 50 § 10.]
RCW 58.09.110 Duties of county auditor. The auditor shall accept for recording those records of survey and records of corner information that are in compliance with the recorder’s checklist as jointly developed by a committee consisting of the survey advisory board and two representatives from the Washington state association of county auditors. This checklist shall […]
RCW 58.09.120 Monuments—Requirements. Any monument set by a land surveyor to mark or reference a point on a property or land line shall be permanently marked or tagged with the certificate number of the land surveyor setting it. If the monument is set by a public officer it shall be marked by an appropriate official […]
RCW 58.09.130 Monuments disturbed by construction activities—Procedure—Requirements. When adequate records exist as to the location of subdivision, tract, street, or highway monuments, such monuments shall be located and referenced by or under the direction of a land surveyor at the time when streets or highways are reconstructed or relocated, or when other construction or activity […]
RCW 58.09.140 Noncompliance grounds for revocation of land surveyor’s license. Noncompliance with any provision of this chapter, as it now exists or may hereafter be amended, shall constitute grounds for revocation of a land surveyor’s authorization to practice the profession of land surveying and as further set forth under RCW 18.43.105 and 18.43.110. [ 1973 […]
