Guam § 60509 - Filing of Documents for Records in the Department

§ 60509. Filing of Documents for Records in the Department

of Land Management.

No document purporting to establish title to land as a result

of proceedings under the Land Title Registration Act, presented to

the Department of Land Management for recording, shall be filed

unless accompanied by a map, plat, sketch or other plane pictorial

representation of the lot, parcel or tract of land involved, made

within a one year period preceding presentation for filing, or

within a one year period preceding the filing of the petition for

land registration if said map were filed therewith, or, with regard

to land taken in condemnation proceedings, made within one year

preceding the filing of the action for condemnation, and bearing a

certification of the following facts:

(a) That it was prepared as the basis of a field survey by

either

(1) a surveyor registered by the Guam Board of

Engineering and Architectural Examiners under the

Professional Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors

Law, Chapter 32 of Title 22, Guam Code Annotated,

holding a current certificate or registration issued by the

Board covering the period that the map, plat, sketch or

other pictorial representation of the land was made, or

the field work incidental thereto was performed, or

(2) a surveyor exempted from registration under

the Professional Engineers, Architects and Land

Surveyors Law.

(b) That it was based upon data obtained from the use of

the Guam Geodetic Triangulation Net and, where coordinate

values were used, the relationship of such coordinates to the

Guam Geodetic Triangulation Net was determined by the use

of physically ascertained courses and distances.