Illinois Subdivision Law and Platting
Agenda
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
8:30 am – 4:00 pm CDT
Agenda:
765 ILCS 205: Illinois Plat Act
Presented by Brian Fischer, PLS
- Definitions
- Research and investigation
- Measurement specifications
- Plat of survey
- Descriptions
- Subdivisions
County and Municipal Plat Standards
Presented by Russell W. Olsen, PLS, PS, RPLS
- Standards and procedures
Plat Standards and Procedures
Presented by Russell W. Olsen, PLS, PS, RPLS
- Definitions
- Plat of proposed village or addition
- Contents of plat
- Cornerstones and markers
- Acknowlegement and recording
- Approval of plats outside municipalities
- Approval or rejection
- Plat of subdivision
- Approval
Highways, Roads, Public Areas
Presented by Russell W. Olsen, PLS, PS, RPLS
- Standards and procedures
Restoration of Corners
Presented by Brian Fischer, PLS
- Certification of corners
Vacation, Cancellation and Revision of Plats/Alternatives
Presented by Russell W. Olsen, PLS, PS, RPLS
- Vacation
- Cancellation
- Replatting
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Credits
Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Land Surveyors
6.5 PDHs
Attorneys
6.5 MCLE General Credit Hours
Continuing Education Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in Illinois.
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The MCLE Board of the Supreme Court of Illinois has approved this live webinar for 6.5 Illinois MCLE general credit hours.
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*On-Demand Credits*
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Speakers
Brian J. Fischer, PLS
Director of Surveying with THD Design Group, Inc. in Chesterfield, MOMr. Fischer has over 30 years of experience in the survey field, performing a variety of survey types for residential, municipal, commercial, industrial and government agency clients. He has experience in survey instrumentation and computer aided drafting (CAD) programs, as well as office and survey programs such as Trimble Office, Carlson and Civil 3D. Management experience includes overseeing drafting and field crews, as well as a branch office for an Oil and Gas services firm in southeast Texas. A former adjunct faculty member for the Engineering Department at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, he holds professional land surveyor licenses in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi and Texas.
Russell W. Olsen, PLS
Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., in Chesterfield, MOMr. Olsen is a Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., a Civil Engineering and Surveying Firm based in Chesterfield, Missouri. Mr. Olsen has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional land surveyor, beginning in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is currently licensed as a land surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Texas.
He has been fortunate to have worked on numerous Highway Department/Department of Transportation horizontal and vertical control surveys, land acquisition and topographic surveys, County Transportation Department Plats of Highway, and Municipal Highway Department surveys.
Mr. Olsen is currently enrolled in the University of Maine Graduate School in the Surveying Engineering Technology Program. He earned an MS in Engineering Technology-Surveying Engineering in 2024 and is currently working on an Eng.D in the same subject at UMaine. He has a BA in Mathematical Sciences. Mr. Olsen has presented seminars and webinars previously with HalfMoon Education on topics including Law and Ethics of Illinois Land Surveying; Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (and on the Ground); Complying with Minimum Standards of Practice; Handling Ethical Issues in Land Surveying Practice; Complying with the Illinois Plat Act; Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors Creed and Canons. His article “The Changing Mosaic of Professional Land Surveying Licensure Requirements in the United States and its Territories” is to be published in the May 2026 Journal of Surveying and Land Information Science (SaLIS) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS).