Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Determining Land Boundaries
Obtaining and interpreting land descriptions
Understanding different types of legal descriptions
Understanding principles of boundary location
Collecting and evaluating all types of boundary evidence: documents, physical evidence, people, surveys
Locating the described land on a map
Locating the described land on the ground
Understanding and using geographic information systems (GIS)
Solving land description and boundary location problems
Assessing and Communicating Uncertainty in Boundary Location
A definition of “uncertainty in location” as it applies to boundary surveys
Factors that contribute to uncertainty in location
Assessing the level of risk in a boundary survey
Determining the actual level of risk in a boundary survey
Methods for communicating uncertainty in location and level of risk
Handling uncertainty in location as part of land transactions
Understanding Land Title Surveys
Title insurance: definitions, costs, exceptions to coverage
Land title surveys: definitions, specifications, legal requirements, professional standard of care, and challenges
Understanding the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey
2016 ALTA/ACSM changes
Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements
What is and is not an easement
Creating easements: easements by necessity, easements by use, written easements
Identifying critical distinctions between easements in gross,easements appurtenant and prescriptive easements
Maintaining easements
Knowing when and how to terminate easements
Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction
Credits
California Attorneys and
Paralegals
6.5 CLE Hours
Professional Engineers and
Land Surveyors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Landmen
6.5 AAPL CEUs
Architects
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. The State Bar of California has approved HalfMoon Education as an MCLE sponsor, and this program offers 6.5 CLE hours to attorneys and paralegals.
This program offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to California engineers and land surveyors. Continuing education is not required for license maintenance in California. Those seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state continuing education rules to determine eligibility.
The American Association of Professional Landmen has accredited this seminar for 6.5 RL, RPL, or CPL recertification credits (CEUs), which includes no CPL/ESA or ethics credits.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to California architects. The American Institute of Architects has approved it for 6.5 HSW Learning Units. Partial attendance cannot be reported to the AIA.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Landon Blake
Mapping Department Manager, Hawkins and Associates Engineering, Inc.Mr. Blake has practiced land surveying throughout central California and western Nevada. He is licensed in both states and is also a certified federal surveyor. He specializes in surveys to support large public works infrastructure projects. He also serves as an expert witness in disputes involving boundary survey or land title issues. He currently works as the Mapping Department manager for Hawkins and Associates in Modesto, California. In his previous positions he worked as the Mapping Department manager for O’Dell Engineering and the assistant surveyor manager for KSN in Stockton, California. Mr. Blake serves as a volunteer on the Land Surveyor Technical Advisory Committee to the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. He is currently the president of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter and the vice president of the American Council of Engineering Companies Central California Chapter. Mr. Blake teaches at surveying and GIS events around the Western United States.