Agenda

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023 
8:30 am – 4:00 pm CDT


Presented by J. Cole Helfrich and Russell W. Olsen, PLS

765 ILCS 205: Illinois Plat Act

  • Definitions
  • Research and investigation
  • Measurement specifications
  • Plat of survey
  • Descriptions
  • Subdivisions

Highways, Roads, Public Areas

  • Standards and procedures

County and Municipal Plat Standards

  • Examination of select county and municipal standards

Plat Standards and Procedures

  • Definitions
  • Plat of proposed village or addition
  • Contents of plat
  • Cornerstones and markers
  • Acknowledgement and recording
  • Approval of plats outside municipalities
  • Approval or rejection
  • Plat of subdivision
  • Approval

Restoration of Corners

  • Certification of corners

Vacation, Cancellation and Revision of Plats/Alternatives

  • Vacation
  • Cancellation
  • Replatting


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Credits

Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs

Land Surveyors
6.5 PDHs

Attorneys
6.5 General MCLE Credit Hours 

Certified Planners
CM|6.5


Continuing Education Credit Information

This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for up to 6.5 PDHs for professional engineers and 6.5 PDHs in the area of statutes and rules for land surveyors licensed in Illinois, where courses and activities are not subject to pre-approval.

This webinar has been approved by the MCLE Board of the Supreme Court of Illinois for 6.5 general MCLE credit hours. 

HalfMoon Education is an approved CM Provider with the American Planning Association. This course is registered for CM | 6.5 for Certified Planners.

Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed). 

On-Demand Credits

The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format may not be eligible for the same credits as the live presentation; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate.

Speakers

J. Cole Helfrich

Principal Land Surveyor with Koru Group PLLC

Mr. 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.

Russell W. Olsen, PLS

Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc. 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 has a B.A. degree 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; and Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors Creed and Canons.