Guam § 60517 - Proclaimed Survey Areas.

§ 60517. Proclaimed Survey Areas.

(a) The Director shall declare areas of Guam where the 1993

Guam Geodetic Network has been established as Proclaimed

Survey Areas.

(b) The Director shall make notification of the declaration of

Proclaimed Survey Areas by advertising in the local newspaper

and advising the Guam Board of Registration for Professional

Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors.

(c) When performing surveys of land boundaries in a

proclaimed survey area, surveyors shall connect their surveys to

three (3) of the 1993 Guam Geodetic Network marks. It shall not

matter if the tie marks are not the nearest to the property surveyed;

provided, however, that the tie traverse survey must meet the

standard of accuracy required by the Department of Land

Management.

(d) If the Guam Surveyor, based upon reasonable grounds,

questions a survey plan as to form and accuracy, which includes

definition of boundaries, as shown on a survey plan in a

Proclaimed Survey Area, by reason of the survey not being carried

out in accordance with this law or regulations issued under this

law, the Guam Surveyor may require the surveyor responsible to

undertake additional work, or to provide additional information in

relation to the survey in order for the Guam Surveyor to verify the

survey plan as to form and accuracy, including definition of the

boundaries. The Guam Surveyor shall not approve the plan until

satisfied that the requirements of this law are met.

(e) The surveyor must comply with any such requirement

within fourteen (14) days or such longer period as allowed by the

Guam Surveyor.

(f) The Guam Chief Surveyor and his Cartographic

Technicians who edit preliminary map check prints submitted by

surveyors must complete their editing processes within a period

not to exceed thirty-five (35) calendar days from the time a

surveyor makes the submission. Upon completion of the editing

process by two (2) Survey Technicians, the edited check print(s)

must be returned to the surveyor within the said thirty-five (35)

calendar days for the surveyor’s action in addressing comments

made by the Division of Survey. Once the surveyor addresses all

comments and submits the original map for final approval process

within a period of not more than fifteen (15) calendar days from

the time a surveyor makes the submission. Therefore, between the

period of thirty-five (35) calendar days allowed for the Division

of Survey to complete its editing processes of the map check

print(s), and the fifteen (15) additional calendar days allowed for

approving the final map, the Division of Survey has a total of fifty

(50) calendar days to complete its work on any map submitted.

Failure of the Guam Surveyor to disapprove in writing a survey

plan submitted shall deem such plan approved. The exception will

be maps containing over fifty (50) lots delineation which maps

shall be given forty-five (45) calendar days to be edited, and an

additional fifteen (15) calendar days for approval.