December 13, 2017, Introduced by Senators ZORN, HERTEL, KNEZEK and PROOS and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1970 PA 132, entitled
"An act to provide for the filing of surveys in the office of the
register of deeds relative to land divisions; and to prescribe the
conditions of the survey,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 54.213), as amended by 1992 PA 183.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. (1) The survey map under section 1 shall be prepared
on durable white paper 8-1/2 inches wide by 14 inches long. Lines
on a map shall be made with nonfading black ink on a scale of not
more
than 500 feet to an inch. the The
scale shall be shown on the
map.
The map may instead be prepared on tracing cloth or paper, and
in which case a true scale reproduction of the map pursuant to the
records
media reproduction act, may 1992
PA 116, MCL 24.401 to
24.406,
shall be recorded. The map shall include
meet all of the
following requirements:
(a)
A Include a certificate signed and sealed by the licensed
land
professional surveyor who surveyed and mapped the parcel or
parcels. ,
The certificate shall meet
all of the following
requirements:
(i) Be typed, lettered, or reproduced legibly with nonfading
ink. ,
giving
(ii) Give a clear, concise description of the land surveyed by
bearings
and distances, commencing with some a corner marked and
established
in the United States public land survey, Public Land
Survey,
or reestablished in accordance with
accepted methods. The
certificate
shall also include
(iii) Include the ratio of closure of latitudes and
departures,
which shall be within limits accepted by the profession
of
land practice of professional
surveying. , and certification
(iv) Include certification by the licensed land professional
surveyor that the requirements of this section have been met.
(b)
The Include the exterior boundaries of the land surveyed
and divided, together with the line or lines leading to the United
States
public land survey Public
Land Survey corner, or corners,
from which the land is described. A boundary along a lake or stream
shall be defined by a meander line connecting the side boundaries
of the parcel. If a lot in a recorded subdivision is divided, the
exterior boundaries of the lot surveyed and divided shall be
referenced to existing lot corners and the controlling monuments
used for that survey.
(c) If the boundary of the parcel follows or parallels a
section
line, the all of the
following requirements:
(i) The section line shall be defined at its extremities by a
corner
established in the United States public land survey Public
Land Survey or reestablished pursuant to accepted methods.
(ii) Each
corner of the United States public land survey
Public Land Survey shall be duly witnessed to a permanent object.
and
the
(iii) The map shall indicate the kind of object, and the
bearings
and distances to it, together with the object, and the
kind
and material of monumentation marking the corner. , shall be
shown
on the map.
(d) A curved boundary or a curved highway, street, or lot
line, if the curve is contained within the line, shall be defined
by the points of curvature and tangency and compound curvature,
central angle, length of arcs, degree of curvature, and length and
bearing of the long chord, or, if the curve is only partially
contained within the line, by the length of arc along the curve,
degree of curvature, and length and bearing of the short chord, or
by traverse courses and distances if the curve is not regular.
(e) If an exterior boundary line shows a bearing or length
that varies from that recorded in an abutting plat or certified
survey, the following note shall be placed along the line "recorded
as (show bearing or length or both)".
(f) Include all of the following:
(i) (f)
The length and bearing of each
line.
(ii) (g)
The exact width of each street,
highway, alley, and
easement.
(iii) (h)
The distance on a boundary or lot
line from the
point of intersection with a meander line to the apparent ordinary
high
water high-water line of Great Lakes waters and to the water's
edge of inland lakes and streams.
(iv) (i)
A north point properly located.
(2)
Certified The register of
deeds shall accept certified
survey
maps prepared pursuant to this section shall be accepted,
upon
payment of the regular fee schedule as provided in section
2567(1)(a)
of the revised judicature act of 1961, Act No. 236 of
the
Public Acts of 1961, being section 600.2567 of the Michigan
Compiled
Laws, shall be numbered consecutively by the register of
deeds,
shall be recorded 1961 PA
236, MCL 600.2567. The register of
deeds shall consecutively number the maps and record them in bound
volumes , or in a manner adapted to a system of preserving
records
pursuant
to the records media reproduction
act, and 1992 PA 116,
MCL 24.401 to 24.406. The maps shall be known as the "certified
survey maps of .............. county", and shall become a part of
the
land records of the county. A separate card file shall be kept
showing
by section, township, and range and also by title of
recorded
plat if a resurvey within such plat, the designating
number,
liber, and page of the certified maps filed in the bound
volume,
or other record.
(3)
If a certified survey map is recorded pursuant to this
section,
the parcels of land in the map may be described with a
supplemental
reference to the number of the survey, the volume and
page
where recorded, and the name of the county, for all purposes,
including
assessment, taxation, devise, descent, and conveyance.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.