SENATE BILL No. 733

 

 

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.