Land Description Systems
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed before the date of the webinar.
Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | 11:00 am – 2:15 pm CST (including a 15-min. break)
Thursday, February 11, 2021 | 11:00 am – 2:15 pm CST (including a 15-min. break)
Presented by J Cole Helfrich
Land Description Systems Day One
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | 11:00 am – 2:15 pm CST (including a 15-min. break)
Working with Metes and Bounds Descriptions
Basic land description concepts: distances, directions, circular curves,
mathematical closure, state plane coordinates
Reading a metes and bounds description
Writing a description
Drawing a description
Software for mapping, drawing and locating described lands
Working with the U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
PLSS basics: meridians, baselines, ranges, townships, sections
Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
Aliquot parts
“Part of” descriptions
Reading a PLSS description
Writing a description
Drawing a description
Software/websites for mapping, drawing and locating described lands
Land Description Systems Day Two
Thursday, February 11, 2021 | 11:00 am – 2:15 pm CST (including a 15-min. break)
Statutory Plats in Public Land Survey States
Duties under Plat Act
Certification and recording
Affidavits and exceptions
Reading and locating platted descriptions
Writing a description
Drawing a description
Software/websites for mapping, drawing and locating described lands
Describing Rights to Access Land
Private easements
Utility easements
Utility rights-of-way
Public rights-of-way
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Credits
Civil Engineers:
6.0 PDHs in All States
Land Surveyors:
6.0 PDHs in Most States,
7.0 Florida CE Hours,
Pending Approval in Missouri
Title Insurance Producers:
Kansas: 6.0 CE Hours,
Missouri: Pending
Attorneys:
Illinois: 6.0 CLE Hours
Kansas: Pending,
Missouri: Pending
Nebraska: 6.0 CLE Hours
North Dakota: 5.0 General CLE hours (1.0 Ethics CLE Hour)
Civil Engineers:
6.0 PDHs in All States
Land Surveyors:
6.0 PDHs in Most States,
7.0 Florida CE Hours,
Pending Approval in Missouri
Title Insurance Producers:
Kansas:6.0 CE Hours,
Missouri: Pending
Attorneys:
Illinois: 6.0 CLE Hours
Kansas: Pending
Missouri: Pending,
Nebraska: 6.0 CLE Hours
North Dakota: 5.0 General CLE hours (1.0 Ethics CLE Hour)
Continuing Education Credit Information
Land Description Systems
This interactive webinar offers 6.0 PDHs/continuing education hours to civil engineers
licensed in most states and 6.0 PDHs to land surveyors licensed in most states (not approved
in in New Jersey or Tennessee). Course approval is applied for and pending
in Missouri.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida
(Provider No. 0004647), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval
No. 24GP00000700), North Carolina (S-0130), and North Dakota.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education provider for engineers
and land surveyors licensed in New York via its registration with the American Institute of
Architects Continuing Education System (Regulations of the Commissioner §68.14(i)(2) and
§69-1.5(i)(2)).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for land surveyors licensed
in Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, North Carolina (S-0130), and North Dakota.
HalfMoon Education is not seeking course approval for New Jersey land surveyors.
This course has been approved for 6.0 CLE hours for Illinois and Nebraska attorneys, and
course approval is applied for Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska attorneys,
This webinar is approved for 6.0 CE hours for Kansas title insurance producers. Course
approval is applied for Missouri insurance producers.
Course completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete the webinar in
its entirety, respond to all the prompts during the instruction, and earn a score of 80% on the
quiz that follows the instruction (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
J. Cole Helfrich
Principal Land Surveyor, Koru Group PLLC, in Wheaton, ILMr. Helfrich has been principal land surveyor with Craig R. Knoche & Associates, P.C. and its successor Koru Group PLLC in the Chicago area for the last 30 years. Mr. Helfrich first picked up a plumb bob in 1971 for Webster & Associates. From tape-and-transit to GPS, mortgage surveys to shopping centers, he has his seal on billions of dollars of commercial, residential and institutional developments and transactions in 23 counties in Illinois together with consulting and managing projects in 15 other states. Mr. Helfrich has enjoyed working with countless prominent developers, attorneys and other professionals in the field and the office. His specialties include real estate law, boundaries and boundary law, easements, rights-of-way and other encumbrances and servitudes, statutory and common-law plats, ALTA surveys, topography, building and site layout, construction- and project-management as well as land development consulting. He has presented classes and co-written manuals with the Illinois Institute For Continuing Legal Education along with classes at the University of Illinois and HalfMoon Education. Mr. Helfrich is a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors and the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association.
