Chapter 17.15
SURVEY STANDARDS

Sections:

17.15.010    Subdivision survey standards.

17.15.020    Fees for recording surveys and monuments.

17.15.010 Subdivision survey standards.

The board of Columbia County commissioners adopts the following subdivision surveying standards for unincorporated areas lying within Columbia County, Washington:

A. The “Technical Standards for Property Surveys of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)” as adopted June 28, 1946, and the “Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for Land Title Surveys” adopted March 2, 1962, by ACSM shall generally apply to surveys and plats to be approved by Columbia County.

B. The establishment, reestablishment, or restoration of a corner on the boundary of two or more ownerships or general land office corner shall be in accordance with the Washington Survey Recording Act of 1973.

C. In addition the map/plat shall show the following information:

1. North arrow, basis of bearings and statement of positional accuracy.

2. All pertinent measurements shall be shown with sufficient notations to clearly identify the source, such as:

a. Measured (meas.);

b. Adjusted measurement (adj. meas.);

c. Calculated from measured values (calc. meas.);

d. Record measurement (rec.);

e. Calculated from record values (calc. rec.);

f. Any values calculated from indirect measurement shall be indicated as “calc. meas.”

3. All pertinent monuments found or set with a notation indicating which were found and which were set, and identified as to character. Found monuments must be accompanied by a reference to their origin. The relation of all monuments to the surveyed lines and corners shall be indicated.

a. Where there is no available reference, the plat shall note “no authority.”

4. Permanent control monuments shall be established at each and every controlling corner on the subdivision. They shall be marked by a two-inch galvanized iron pipe, concrete marker or other approved equivalent driven or set permanently into the ground. All monument locations and descriptions shall be shown on the face of the plat.

a. Monuments set shall have the surveyor’s license number affixed thereto and be of a type and character and set in a manner providing a reasonable degree of permanency, consistent with that of the adjacent terrain and physical features.

5. All found or established monuments and evidence of possession beyond the surveyed premises on which establishment of the corners of the surveyed premises are dependent.

6. The character of observed evidence of possession, and the location of such evidence given in relation to the surveyed boundary lines. Where there is no physical evidence of possession along the surveyed lines, the plat shall note “no physical evidence of possession or line.”

7. Adjoining parcels identified by title description or record reference when pertinent.

8. Map delineation must be such that contiguity, gaps and overlaps are clearly shown. Gaps and overlaps shall be dimensioned.

9. In total, sufficient data to clearly indicate the theory of location applied in finalizing the locations of the corners, and also any data at variance with this theory of location, and sufficient data to allow the facile retracement of all pertinent lines and points shown on the plat; also a brief written statement indicating the theory of location used. [Res. 77-22.]

17.15.020 Fees for recording surveys and monuments.

A. Purpose. The purpose of this section is to implement the Survey Recording Act (Chapter 50, Laws of 1973) and to assist in preserving evidence of land surveys by establishing fees for recording a public record as prescribed by the Act.

B. Record of Survey. The record of land surveys shall be 18 inches by 24 inches and filed according to the following fee schedule:

1. Basic fee – first page: $10.00.

2. Each additional page: $5.00.

3. Each additional owner’s name: $1.00.

C. Copies. Copies of the record of survey shall be provided on request according to the following fee schedule:

1. Basic fee – first page: $5.00.

2. Each additional page: $3.00.

D. Record of Monument. The record of monument shall be filed without charge on the standard form prescribed by the Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Surveys and Maps.

E. Copies. Copies of the record of monument shall be provided on request according to the following fee schedule:

1. Basic fee: $2.00. [Ord. 73-01 §§ 1 – 5.]