Metes and Bounds Land Description Workshop
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Streamable MP4/PDF
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Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed before the date of the webinar.
Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
10:00 am – 4:00 pm CST
Presented by
Deward “Karl” Bowles
Agenda
Working with Metes and Bounds Descriptions
History of land descriptions in the U.S.
Basic land description concepts:
- Terminology
- Bearings
- Distances
- Circular curves
- Mathematical closure
- State plane coordinates
Monuments, natural and artificial boundaries
Reading and interpreting a metes and bounds description
Metes and Bounds Workshop: Writing, Drawing and Locating Descriptions
Writing a description
Drawing a description
Software for mapping, drawing and locating described lands
Handling Special Issues in Metes and Bounds Descriptions
“Part of” descriptions
Exceptions and reservations
Water boundaries
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Credits
Engineers:
5.0 PDHs (in Most States)
Land Surveyors:
5.0 PDHs (in Most States)
(no credit for NY engineers or surveyors)
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 5.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in most states. Please refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
This course has been approved by the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects, the Tennessee Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors, and registered with the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers (#10182).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider No. 0004647), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700) and North Carolina (S-0130). Most other states do not preapprove continuing education providers or courses.
This course is not approved in New York.
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).
Speakers
Deward “Karl” Bowles
Independent Professional Land Surveyor and Owner of B&B Surveying Company in HoustonMr. Bowles began working in the field of land surveying in 1978 and is certified as a registered professional land surveyor in the State of Texas. He has given seminars to lawyers, real estate professionals and other land surveyors on land surveying principles, practice and codified standards. Mr. Bowles has been an expert witness in a number of legal actions centering around boundary disputes and land surveyor negligence claims. He has given expert testimony regarding boundary resolution, minimum standards and minimum content regarding land surveys. Mr. Bowles is a member of the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors and a former member of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.