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Sponsor Statement for HB 227
Land Survey Standards

An Act instructing the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors to adopt minimum technical standards relating to the practice of surveying.

House Bill 227 directs the Board of Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors to adopt minimum technical standards for land surveys. Currently in Alaska there are no standards in state law, so it is left up to individual surveyors to include however much information on their surveys as they chose. This lack of minimum standards leads to undesired results. For example, information that a surveyor in Fairbanks would include in an as-built survey, a surveyor in Kenai might leave off.

The American Land Title Association/American Congress on Surveying and Mapping has adopted comprehensive minimum standards, but it is not the intention of HB 227 to place these in statute. The approach of this bill is to have the board adopt in regulations minimum standards, whether the ALTA/ACSM standards or those of another state that as already done so. In this regard, regulations of the State of Florida may be adequate.

It seems logical that a person who orders and pays for a survey of a piece of property should be able to expect the survey to provide certain pertinent information about the property's features. HB 227 will ensure the adoption of minimum standards so that every survey done in Alaska will include the same basic information.

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