Understanding Land Surveys, Legal Descriptions and Boundaries in Kentucky
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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.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed before the date of the webinar.
Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.
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8:00 – 8:30 am CDT
Morning Session
8:30 – 11:40 am CDT
Break
11:40 am – 12:10 pm CDT
Afternoon Session
12:10 – 3:50 pm CDT
Presented by
Anthony M. Gregory
Ordering and Reviewing Land Surveys
Kentucky requirements and standards for professional land surveyors
Ordering and reviewing land surveys
Boundary survey standards – Kentucky
Research and investigation
Mortgage inspection plats – Kentucky
ALTA/NSPS land title surveys
Reviewing title issues disclosed on sample survey plats
Writing and Interpreting Legal Descriptions
What is a legal description?
Who can write a legal description?
Types of legal descriptions
United States Public Land System
Metes and bounds system/descriptions – Kentucky
“Of” descriptions
Some key words in legal descriptions
Some words we can do without in legal descriptions
Determining what controls in a legal description
Order of importance of conflicting title elements
Corners and monuments
Lot and block descriptions (subdivisions)
Locating Land Boundaries
History of land boundaries
Evidence of boundary location
• Words as evidence (written and verbal)
• Monuments as evidence
• Occupation as evidence (possession lines)
• Plats as evidence
Interpreting evidence – Kentucky
Evidence and technology
“Boundary” line vs. “property” line
Sequential conveyances and simultaneous conveyances
• Senior/junior rights
State boundary surveying standards
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards
Surveyor’s role in boundary disputes
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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Windows 7 – 10 or Mac OSX Mavericks (10.9) – macOS Catalina (10.15)
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The two most recent version of the following browsers:
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Internet Explorer v11 (or later) with Flash enabled
Internet connection: Minimum of 1Mbps Hardware: 2GB RAM or more
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Credits
Professional Engineers &
Land Surveyors
6.5 PDHs
Kentucky Attorneys
6.5 CLE Hours
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to engineers and land
surveyors licensed in Kentucky. Educators and courses are not subject to
preapproval in Kentucky.
Professional engineers seeking professional development/continuing education
credit in other states will be able to claim the hours earned at this webinar, in many
cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
The Kentucky Bar Association has approved this activity for 6.5 CLE credits, including
0.0 Ethics credits, for Kentucky attorneys.
Completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete this event,
respond to prompts, and earn a passing score (80%) on the quiz that follows the
presentation (multiple attempts allowed).