Land Law for Illinois Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors
Agenda
Land Law for Illinois Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, Day One
Monday, August 24, 2020 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT (incl. a 15-min. break)
Boundary Law
Understanding basic principles of boundary law
• Determine the intent of the grantor
• Follow the steps of the original surveyor
Evaluating boundary evidence: legal descriptions, natural monuments,
artificial monuments, adjoining boundaries, surveys and maps,
statements and testimony
Methods for resolving boundary disputes
The Law of Easements
Understanding the legal concept of easements
• Types of easements
Creating easements
• Drafting easements
Terminating easements
Land Use Law
Understanding land use law
Subdivision platting
Traffic/parking
Handling land use approvals
Understanding conservation easements
Comprehensive planning
Zoning
Restrictive covenants/deed restrictions
Nuisance
• Plats
• Re-zoning, including PUD, PD, SUP, CUP
• Variances, special exceptions
Interpretations/appeal of staff decisions
Administrative appeals
Litigation
Land Law for Illinois Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, Day Two
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 | 11:00 am – 1:30 pm CDT (including a 15-min. break)
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Understanding eminent domain powers
• Source of eminent domain powers
• History of the exercise of eminent domain powers
• Types of eminent domain “takings”
Participating in the condemnation process
Appealing a condemnation decision
Understanding regulatory “takings” and inverse condemnation
Understanding Adverse Possession
The history of adverse possession
Case law on adverse possession
Maintaining a claim for adverse possession
Statutory law
• Statute of limitations
• Elements of a claim
Defending against a claim for adverse possession
Practical location of boundaries
Determining rights to groundwater
Overview of regulations restricting access to and use of surface
water and groundwater
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Credits
Professional Engineers:
6.0 PDHs
Land Surveyors:
6.0 PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar 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 apply the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
Course completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete the webinar in its entirety, respond to all the verification prompts during the instruction, and earn a score of 80% on the quiz that follows the instruction (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
J. Cole Helfrich
Principal Land Surveyor, Koru Group PLLC, in Wheaton, ILMr. 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.
