7 Pa. Code § 138e.73 - Survey requirements
(a)
General requirement. If a survey of land being considered for
agricultural conservation easement purchase is required under §
138e.67(d)
(relating to requirements of the agricultural conservation easement deed) or is
otherwise required to determine metes and bounds of any right-of-way or other
interests in the land, the survey shall indicate that it has a closure error of
not greater than 1 foot per 10,000 linear feet in the survey, and shall
otherwise comply with the boundary survey measurement standards published by
the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors in its "Manual of Practice for
Professional Land Surveyors in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," adopted July
10, 1998, or its most current successor document.
(b)
Other requirements. A
survey described in subsection (a) shall also contain the following:
(1) A recordable legal description setting
forth the metes, bounds, monumentation, exceptions, easements and rights-of-way
with respect to the farmland tract or other subject of the survey.
(2) A copy of the final boundary survey in
digital electronic format that complies with the conservation easement
Geographic Information System (GIS) technical standards maintained in the
guidebook prepared by the Department in accordance with section 14.1(a)(3)(xv)
of the act (3 P. S. §
914.1(a)(3)(xv)). The
digital format shall show the bearings and distances between each monument and
contain the northing and easting of each monument.
(3) Coordinates of at least two ground
control points located sequentially along the boundary survey, with latitude
and longitude expressed in decimal degrees with an accuracy of 6 recorded
decimal places. These coordinates shall be based on the "North American Datum
of 1983," or its most current successor document, and shall be obtained through
field observation or verification of datum.
(4) A paper copy of the plotted final survey
map from the digital file showing the course bearings and distances and other
annotations and symbols as maintained in the guidebook prepared by the
Department in accordance with section 14.1(a)(3)(xv) of the
act.
(c)
Monumentation. If a survey of land being considered for
agricultural conservation easement purchase is required under §
138e.67(d) or is
otherwise required to determine metes and bounds of any right-of-way or other
interests in the land, the surveyor shall establish monumentation for at least
the two ground control points required under subsection (b)(3). This
monumentation shall consist of permanent, concrete markers of substantial
length and width containing ferrous or other materials detectable by an
electromagnetic locator. The identity of the surveyor who places a monument
shall be affixed or marked upon the monument so that it can be ascertained by
inspection of the monument in the field.
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