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Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
(Effective February 23, 2026)

Except, however, if the documents outlined in B and C of this section are not provided to the surveyor or if non-public or quasi-public documents (e.g.,
highway or railroad plans) are otherwise required to complete the survey, the surveyor must conduct that research which is required pursuant to the
statutory or administrative requirements of the jurisdiction where the surveyed property is located and that research (if any) which is negotiated and
outlined in the terms of the contract between the surveyor and the client.

5. Fieldwork - The fieldwork must be performed using practices generally recognized as acceptable by the surveying profession for purposes of an
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey. Except as related to the precision of the boundary, which is addressed in Section 3.E. above, features located during the
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fieldwork shall be located to what is, in the surveyor’s professional opinion, the appropriate degree of precision based on (a) the planned use of the
surveyed property, if reported in writing to the surveyor by the client, lender, or insurer, or (b) the existing use, if the planned use is not so reported.
The fieldwork shall include the following:
A. Monuments
i. The location, size, character (including relationship to surface of the ground), and type of any monuments found during the fieldwork.
ii. The location, size, character (including relationship to surface of the ground), and type of any monuments set during the fieldwork, if item 1
of Table A was selected or if otherwise required by applicable jurisdictional requirements and/or standards of practice.
iii. The location, description, and character of any lines that control the boundaries of the surveyed property.
B. Rights of Way and Access
i. The distance from the appropriate corner or corners of the surveyed property to the nearest right of way line, if the surveyed property does
not abut a right of way.
ii. The name of any street, highway, or other public or private way abutting the surveyed property, together with the width of the travelled way
and the location of each edge of the travelled way including on divided streets and highways. If the documents provided to or obtained by
the surveyor pursuant to Section 4 indicate no access from the surveyed property to the abutting street or highway, the width and location
of the travelled way need not be located.
iii. Evidence of physical access (including vehicular access such as curb cuts and driveways) to any abutting streets, highways, or other
public or private ways observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork.
iv. The location and character of vehicular, pedestrian, or other forms of access by other than the apparent occupants of the surveyed property
to or across the surveyed property observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork (e.g., driveways, alleys, private roads, railroads,
railroad sidings and spurs, sidewalks, footpaths).
v. Without expressing a legal opinion as to ownership or nature, the location and extent of any potentially encroaching driveways, alleys, and
other ways of access from adjoining properties onto the surveyed property observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork.
vi. Where documentation of the location of any street, road, or highway right of way abutting, on, or crossing the surveyed property was
not disclosed in documents provided to or obtained by the surveyor, or was not otherwise available from the controlling jurisdiction (see
Section 6.C.iv. below), the evidence and location of parcel corners on the same side of the street as the surveyed property recovered
in the process of conducting the fieldwork which may indicate the location of such right of way lines (e.g., lines of occupation, survey
monuments).
vii. Evidence of access to and from waters adjoining the surveyed property observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork (e.g., paths,
boat slips, launches, piers, docks).
C. Lines of Possession and Improvements along the Boundaries
i. The character and location of evidence of possession or occupation along the perimeter of the surveyed property, both by the occupants
of the surveyed property and by adjoining properties, observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork regardless of proximity to the
perimeter boundary lines.
ii. Unless physical access is restricted, the character and location of all walls, buildings, fences, and other improvements within five feet of
each side of the boundary lines observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork (see Section 5.E.iv. regarding the location of utility
features). Trees, bushes, shrubs, and other vegetation need not be located other than as specified in the contract, unless they are deemed
by the surveyor to be evidence of possession or occupation pursuant to Section 5.C.i.
iii. Without expressing a legal opinion as to the ownership or nature of the potential encroachment, the evidence, location, and extent of
potentially encroaching structural appurtenances and projections observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork (e.g., fire escapes,
bay windows, windows and doors that open out, flue pipes, stoops, eaves, cornices, areaways, steps, trim) by or onto adjoining properties,
or onto rights of way, easements, or setback lines disclosed in documents provided to or obtained by the surveyor.
D. Buildings
The location of buildings on the surveyed property observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork.

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