SECTIONS 27550-27564 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 27550-27564

27550. The surveyor shall be a person authorized to practice land
surveying in this state. The surveyor shall be elected in the same
manner and for the same term as other county officers unless the
board of supervisors of the county shall have provided by ordinance
for his or her appointment by the board. If so appointed, the
surveyor shall serve at the will of the board.

27550.1. The qualifications for eligibility to a county or district
office, required by Section 24001 of this Code, shall not apply to
candidates or applicants for, or a person elected or appointed to,
the office of surveyor in a county containing a population of under
20,000 as determined by the 1960 federal decennial census.

27550.2. Notwithstanding Section 27550, in Solano County, the
county surveyor is not an elected position and may be appointed by
the Director of Transportation if the board of supervisors have so
provided by ordinance for that appointment. If so appointed, the
surveyor shall serve at the will of the director.

27551. The surveyor shall make any survey that is required by order
of court or the board of supervisors. He shall keep a correct and
fair record of all surveys made by him, number them in the order
made, and preserve a copy of the field notes and calculations of each
survey, and shall endorse thereon its proper number. A copy of the
survey and a fair and accurate plat, together with a certificate of
survey, shall be furnished by him to any person upon application and
payment of the fees allowed by law.

27552. Any person owning or claiming land which is divided by
county lines and who wishes to have it surveyed may apply to the
surveyor of any county in which any part of the land is situated.
Upon such application, the surveyor shall make the survey, which is
as valid as though the land were situated entirely within the county.

27553. When the title of land which is in dispute before any court,
is divided by a county line, the court making an order of survey may
direct the order to the surveyor of any county in which any part of
the land is situated.

27554. When required the surveyor shall aid and assist the State
Lands Commission in making surveys within the county.

27555. When the surveyor is interested in any land, the title to
which is in dispute, and a survey is necessary, the court shall
direct the survey to be made by some disinterested person. The person
so appointed is for that purpose authorized to administer and
certify oaths. He shall return the survey, verified by his annexed
affidavit, and receive for his services the same fees as the surveyor
would be entitled to for similar service.

27556. The surveyor shall copy, plat, or trace each map filed for
record in the office of the county recorder, at the cost of the party
filing the map, and is ex officio deputy recorder for the county for
such purposes. All maps or plats filed by a licensed land surveyor
and such other maps and plats as are filed and are thereby made a
record are exempt from this section.

27557. The surveyor shall plat, trace, blueprint, or otherwise make
all county, road, district, and other maps and, at the request of
the assessor, make all assessors' block-books for the county.

27558. The board of supervisors may provide and pay from county
funds for the making or purchase of the maps and block-books by
contract with some other competent person, if any of the following
conditions exist:
(a) The office of the assessor is not provided with maps and
block-books.
(b) The maps or block-books in the office of the assessor are
insufficient or defective and the surveyor neglects or refuses to
make them.
(c) The facilities of the surveyor's office are inadequate to do
so.

27559. In the preparation of assessors' maps and block-books the
surveyor shall make all investigations and surveys necessary to
provide complete and accurate maps.

27560. All maps which are platted, traced, blueprinted, or
otherwise so made for the county and all data obtained by the
surveyor or person making them from other sources is the property of
the county.

27561. The board of supervisors may provide for the sale at not
less than cost of copies of maps prepared for the use of the
assessor.

27562. The surveyor shall make such surveys of county roads and
perform such other engineering work as the board of supervisors
directs. All surveys shall be tied by courses and distances to the
corners of legal subdivisions through which they pass or to natural
or artificial monuments. All such maps and field notes of surveys
shall be filed in the office of the surveyor and are the property of
the county.

27563. In all surveys the courses shall be expressed according to
the true meridian, and the variation of the magnetic meridian from
the true meridian shall be expressed on the plat with the date of the
survey.

27564. Within 90 days after making any survey which adjoins or
crosses any lands owned by the State, excluding tax-deeded lands but
including school lands, swamp and overflow lands, or tidelands, any
navigable stream or slough, or any county boundary, each surveyor
shall transmit to the State Lands Commission a plat of the survey,
showing all data necessary to establish the relative positions of all
lines and boundaries involved in that portion of the survey
affecting the interests of the State. The State Lands Commission may
require the surveyor to submit a copy of any portion of the field
notes, in which case the commission shall pay the surveyor the cost
of copying the notes.
The surveyor shall also transmit such information concerning
surveys made by him and other matters connected with the duties of
his office as is required by law to be furnished to the State Lands
Commission.