Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:00 pm
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) in Illinois
Aliquot parts
“Part of” descriptions
Reading a PLSS description
Writing a description
Drawing a description
Software/websites for mapping, drawing and locating described lands
Illinois Plat Act
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 Land Rights in Special Situations
Describing riparian boundaries
Describing mineral rights and surface land rights
Describing Rights to Access Land
Private easements
Utility easements
Utility rights-of-way
Public rights-of-way
Credits
Engineers &
Land Surveyors
6.0 PDHs
Attorneys
6.0 Illinois CLE Hours
6.0 Indiana CLE Hours
7.0 Wisconsin CLE Hours
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.0 PDHs to professional engineers and land surveyors licensed in Illinois. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Illinois.
Professional engineers and land surveyors seeking continuing education credit in other states for this course will be able to claim the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
The Illinois MCLE Board has approved this course for 6.0 MCLE general credit hours for attorneys.
This course is approved for 6.0 CLE credit hours in the subject area of Real Property for Indiana attorneys and 7.0 CLE hours for Wisconsin attorneys.
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
J. Cole Helfrich
Principal Land Surveyor with Koru Group PLLCMr. 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.