Tennessee Boundaries, Easements and Rights-of-Way
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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 the start time.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm EST
Presented by: Barry Savage PLS
Researching and Interpreting Land Records
- Title research vs. boundary research
- Historical research
- Genealogy and research
- What measurements really mean in a land description
- Importance of the words we use in descriptions
- Resolving conflicts in land evidence
Identifying, Classifying and Locating 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, easements appurtenant
and prescriptive easements - Maintaining easements
- Knowing when and how to terminate easements
- Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction
- Utility easements
Writing Land Descriptions
- Types of descriptions
- Tennessee’s little known public land descriptions
- Writing descriptions from the qualitative to the quantitative
- Examples of good and bad descriptions
- Do’s and don’t of writing descriptions
Understanding Water Rights and Riparian Boundaries
- Equal Footing Doctrine
- Definitions of navigability
- Public Use Doctrine
- Researching water rights
- Riparian boundaries
- Determining high and low water for boundary determination
- Examining PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana
Trespass, Adverse Possession and Other Unauthorized Access to Land
- Elements of civil trespass to land
- Reviewing the history of adverse possession
- Maintaining a claim for adverse possession
- Statute of limitations
- Elements of a claim
- Defending against a claim for adverse possession
- Examining recent adverse possession cases
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
Professional Engineers:
6.5 PDHs
Land Surveyors:
Pending
Attorneys:
6.5 CLE Hours
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.5 PDHs for professional engineers in Tennessee. The Tennessee Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners does not approve continuing education courses in advance. It is the registrant’s responsibility to determine which courses meet the criteria of the continuing education rules.
This live webinar has been submitted to the Tennessee Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors for continuing education accreditation which is currently pending. Visit this course listing at www.halfmoonseminars.org for updates on pending credits.
This live webinar has been approved by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 6.5 general CLE hours in the areas of Real Property (F21) and Easements (F261).
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
Barry E. Savage, PLS
Survey Products Group Manager with Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga, TNMr. Savage began his survey career while in college in 1981. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering Technology. Mr. Savage worked for the next 10 years for various civil/survey firms in positions ranging from crew chief to senior designer. In 1993 he started Savage Surveying and Mapping. While operating his firm Mr. Savage surveyed several state lines to resolve jurisdictional conflicts. He served as survey consultant during the construction of the Ocoee Whitewater venue for the 1996 Olympics. Mr. Savage is currently the Survey Products Manager at the Tennessee Valley Authority providing survey services to support their seven-state service area. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Cleveland State Community College for 20 years where he teaches courses in boundary law, geodesy, and general surveying. Mr. Savage and his students have retraced the historical surveys of Henry David Thoreau on Walden Pond in Concord Massachusetts. He teaches continuing education courses on surveying and boundary issues across the country. Mr. Savage is a licensed surveyor in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.