Agenda

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Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.

Thursday, April 27, 2023 
9:00 am – 4:30 pm EDT (including a 30-min. break)

 

Identifying, Classifying and Locating Defining Rights of ways and Easements 

  • What is and is not an easement
  • Reviewing state law on easements
  • Creating easements: easements by necessity, easements by use, written easements
  • Identifying critical distinctions between easements in gross, easementppurtenant and prescriptive easements
  • Rights and responsibilities in easements
  • How to terminate easements
  • Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction 

 

Understanding Road Rights-of-Way 

  • Defining roads and highways, public and private
  • Who owns the road, or has rights in it?
  • Landowner rights
  • Relocation of road rights of way
  • Encroachments 

 

Understanding Utility Easements and Rights of Way 

  • Defining what we mean by “utility”  
  • Rights and responsibilities of utilities – and why
  • Utilities in roads and other locations
  • Notifying utilities (“call before you dig”) 
    • Federal laws and regulations
    • State laws and regulations

  

Eminent Domain and Powers of Condemnation 

  • Understanding eminent domain 
    • What is eminent domain? 
    • Who can exercise eminent domain, and why 
    • What can be condemned? 
    • The process for condemnation and protests against it 

  

The Effect of Roads and Utilities on Title 

  • Marketable title versus insurable title
  • The effect of rights of way on public or private property
  • The effect on rights of way by changes in use 
  • The effects on public or private property by changes in right of way use 

 

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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

Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs

Land Surveyors
6.5 PDHs

Attorneys
6.5 CLE Hours

Geologists
6.5 PDHs

 

Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.5 PDHs for professional engineers, land surveyors and geologists in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania State Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists does not provide pre-approval for any CE activities or providers.

HalfMoon Education is an approved CLE provider for Pennsylvania attorneys (No. 1613). This webinar offers 6.5 CLE hours to Pennsylvania attorneys.

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

Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM, CFS

President and Owner of Cadastral Consulting, LLC

Ms. Lathrop is licensed as a professional land surveyor in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and as a professional planner in New Jersey. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and has been involved in surveying since 1974 in projects ranging from construction to boundary to environmental land use disputes. Ms. Lathrop is also a certified floodplain manager through the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) and a Certified Floodplain Surveyor through the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors. A former adjunct instructor at Mercer County College in New Jersey, she has also taught as part of the team for the licensing exam review course at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. Ms. Lathrop has been teaching seminars for surveyors since 1986 and has been writing articles for surveyors since 1983. She is a contributing editor for The American Surveyor magazine, and she has four articles included in the American Bar Association’s text, Land Surveys: A Guide for Lawyers and Other Professionals. She and Stephen V. Estopinal, PLS, PE co–authored a book titled Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions: Composition, Construction, and Comprehension, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2011. She is also on the faculty of GeoLearn, a web-based educational provider. Ms. Lathrop is a past president of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors and of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and she has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association for Geodetic Surveying.