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Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
(Effective February 23, 2021)

ii. Evidence of easements, servitudes, or other uses by other than the apparent occupants of the surveyed property not disclosed in the
documents provided to or obtained by the surveyor pursuant to Section 4, but observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork if they
are on or across the surveyed property (e.g., roads, drives, sidewalks, paths and other ways of access, utility service lines, utility locate
markings (including the source of the markings, with a note if unknown), water courses, ditches, drains, telephone lines, fiber optic lines,
electric lines, water lines, sewer lines, oil pipelines, gas pipelines).
iii. Surface indications of underground easements or servitudes on or across the surveyed property observed in the process of conducting the
fieldwork (e.g., utility cuts, vent pipes, filler pipes, utility locate markings (including the source of the markings, with a note if unknown)).
iv. Evidence on or above the surface of the surveyed property observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork, which evidence may
indicate utilities located on, over, or beneath the surveyed property. Examples of such evidence include pipeline markers, utility locate
markings (including the source of the markings, with a note if unknown), manholes, valves, meters, transformers, pedestals, clean-outs,
overhead lines, guy wires, and utility poles on or within ten feet of the surveyed property. Without expressing a legal opinion as to the
ownership or nature of the potential encroachment, the extent of all encroaching utility pole crossmembers or overhangs.
F. Cemeteries
As accurately as the evidence permits, the perimeter of cemeteries and burial grounds, and the location of isolated gravesites not within a
cemetery or burial ground, (i) disclosed in the documents provided to or obtained by the surveyor, or (ii) observed in the process of conducting
the fieldwork.
G. Water Features
i. SAMPLE
The location of springs, ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, canals, ditches, marshes, and swamps on, running through, or outside, but within five
feet of, the perimeter boundary of the surveyed property and observed during the process of conducting the fieldwork.
ii. The location of any water feature forming a boundary of the surveyed property. The attribute(s) of the water feature located (e.g., top of
bank, edge of water, high water mark) should be congruent with the boundary as described in the record description or, in the case of an
original survey, in the new description (see Section 6.B.vi. below).

6. Plat or Map - A plat or map of an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey shall show the following information. Where dimensioning is appropriate, dimensions
shall be annotated 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) existing use, if the planned use is not so reported.
A. Field Locations. The evidence and locations gathered, and the monuments and lines located during the fieldwork pursuant to Section 5 above,
with accompanying notes if deemed necessary by the surveyor or as otherwise required as specified below.
B. Boundary, Descriptions, Dimensions, and Closures
i. (a) The current record description of the surveyed property, or
(b) In the case of an original survey, the current record document number of the parent tract that contains the surveyed property.
ii. Any new description of the surveyed property that was prepared in conjunction with the survey, including a statement explaining why the
new description was prepared. Except in the case of an original survey, preparation of a new description should be avoided unless deemed
necessary or appropriate by the surveyor and insurer. Preparation of a new description should also generally be avoided when the record
description is a lot or block in a platted, recorded subdivision. Except in the case of an original survey, if a new description is prepared, a note
must be provided stating (a) that the new description describes the same real estate as the record description or, (b) if it does not, how the
new description differs from the record description.
iii. The point of beginning, the remote point of beginning or point of commencement (if applicable) and all distances and directions identified
in the record description of the surveyed property (and in the new description, if one was prepared). Where a measured or calculated
dimension differs from the record by an amount deemed significant by the surveyor, such dimension must be shown in addition to, and
differentiated from, the corresponding record dimension. All dimensions shown on the survey and contained in any new description must
be horizontal ground dimensions unless otherwise noted.
iv. The direction, distance, and curve data necessary to compute a mathematical closure of the surveyed boundary. A note if the record
description does not mathematically close. The basis of bearings and, where it differs from the record basis, the difference.
v. The remainder of any recorded lot or existing parcel, when the surveyed property is composed of only a portion of such lot or parcel, shall
be graphically depicted. Such remainder need not be included as part of the actual survey, except to the extent necessary to locate the
lines and corners of the surveyed property, and it need not be fully dimensioned or drawn at the same scale as the surveyed property.
vi. When the surveyed property includes a title line defined by a water boundary, a note on the face of the plat or map noting the date the
boundary was measured, which attribute(s) of the water feature was/were located, and the caveat that the boundary is subject to change
due to natural causes and that it may or may not represent the actual location of the limit of title. When the surveyor is aware of natural or
artificial realignments or changes in such boundaries, the extent of those changes and facts shall be shown or explained.

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