Statutes Affecting Surveying

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Complete Text of Statutes

Abandoned property

Channels—82a-204, 82a-209
Railroad—66-525

Actions and Procedures

Foreclosure of security interest, civil procedure—60-1006
Real property—60-1001 et seq.
Water, appropriation of—82a-705, 82a-718

Additions

Generally—12-501 et seq.

Adjoins

Defined—12-519

Adverse Possession

Appropriation of water—82a-705
Deeds and conveyances—58-2208
Definition—58-503 et seq.
Marketable record title—58-3404
Public park land—58-2247
Partition action, pleading—60-1003
Quieting title—60-1002

Annexation of Territory

Generally—12-519 et seq.
Cemetery districts—15-1017, 17-1335, 17-1356 et seq.
Cities, boundary lines—12-517, 12-518
Definitions—12-519
Extension of municipal services—12-520b, 12-521, 12-533, 12-534
Military reservations—12-529
Plats—12-326 et seq.

Apartments

Generally—58-3101 et seq.

Boundaries

Cemetery districts, exclusion of territory—15-1018, 15-1019
Cities, change in—12-517, 12-518
Missouri River boundary line agreement—82a-521 et seq.
Records of surveyor—19-1407
Water districts—82a-614
Zoning districts or zones—12-708

Canals

Arkansas River Compact—82a-520
Republican River Compact—82a-518

Cemeteries

Abandonment—17-1328 et seq.
Cemetery districts—15-1014, 15-1015
Deeds and conveyances—17-302
Definitions—17-1366
Eminent Domain—17-1315
Surveys—17-1302, 17-1308

Channel

Survey of—82a-204

Civil Action

Ejectment from real property—58-1001 et seq.
Liens—60-1101
Limitations—60-1105
Limitation—60-510 et seq.

Closure Calculations

Information required with plats—58-2004

County Clerk

Maps and plats filed with—12-403
Plat of subdivision—79-405 et seq.
Recording deeds and conveyances—58-2239, 58-2242a
Road record book—19-310
Road surveys—19-1420
Townships, names and certified statements—19-309

County Engineer

Crimes and punishments, counties over 300,000—28-619
Employment—19-1420
Fees, counties over 300,000—28-615, 28-617, 28-119
Services, counties over 250,000—19-1403a

County Surveyor

Generally—19-1401 et seq.
Abolished—19-1403a
Appeal from survey—19-1426
Boundaries, establishment—19-1423
Compensation for chainmen, markers, flagmen, rodmen—19-1417
Cornerstones—19-1430, 19-1432
County engineer acting as county surveyor—19-1403
Evidence, taking of—19-1414
Fees, counties of more than 50,000—28-120
Fees, counties between 130,000 and 185,000—28-208
Office hours, counties over 50,000—28-120, 19-2601
Penalties for violations, counties between 100,000 and 185,000—28-226
Penalties for misconduct or neglect—19-1404
Plats and field notes of original federal surveyors—19-1418
Records—19-1407
Removal from office—19-2609
Reports—19-1420
Road record book—19-310
Resignation—19-2606
Roads, laying out or altering—69-104, 68-105
Roads, re-survey—68-108
Term of office—19-1401
Section corner reference reports—58-2011
Subdivision plats, review before recordation—58-2005
Survey for County clerk—79-409
Surveys for use in court—19-1405
Surveys of irregular tracts—19-1421
Surveys, review before recordation—58-2005
Surveys, statutory/legal—19-1401 et seq.

Dams

Arkansas River Compact—82a520
Check dams, rural water districts—82a619
Donation of lands, easement or right-of-way, tax exemptions—82a-409
Forfeiture of rights—82a-116
Filing of maps and plans—82a-302
Republican River Compact, storage reservoir—82a-518

Deeds

Acknowledgement of deed required—58-2211
Claim of interest, preserving—58-3406
Condominium ownership—58-3101 et seq.
Corporation conveyances prior to 1887—58-2206
Defective deeds validated—58-2237
Errors, register of deeds responsibility—58-2221
Guardian’s deeds—58-2255
Indian land—58-2249
Lost instruments, certified copies of—58-2230
Maps and plats—12-401 et seq.
Marketable record title defined—58-3403
Quit claim deed—58-2204
Recordation of conveyance—58-2221
Tax foreclosure sale—58-2269
Title acquired after conveyance passes to grantee—58-2207
Trust deeds—58-2252
Unacknowledged deed—58-2214
Warranty deed—58-2203

Drainage Districts

Surveys—24-417, 24-419, 27-467
Powers—24-408, 24-429, 24-495 et seq.
Boundary watercourses—24-453
Cities of the first class—24-489 et seq.
Counties between 85,000 and 130,000—24-485, 24-486
Swamps and overflowed lands, surveys of—24-609
Watercourse boundaries
Jurisdiction—24-453
Sale of abandoned channel—24-453

Easements

Acquisition of underlying fee interest—12-16,103
Conservation easements, uniform act—58-3810 et seq.
Pipeline, abandonment—58-2271
Release of easement, procedure—12-16,104
Rights-of-way, state agencies—75-2130 et seq.
Solar easements—58-3801 et seq.
Upon state lands—75-2131, 75-2132
Vacation—12-504, 12-505, 12-512b, 25-2613 et seq.

Eminent Domain

Generally—26-501 et seq.
Abandonment of condemnation—26-507
Abutting property, damages—26-513
Access, damages—26-513
Entry upon land, surveys—26-512
Evidence—26-506
Fences, damages—26-513
Findings—26-504
Interurban railways—66-911
Navigable waterways, acquisition of new channels—82a-201
Non-conforming use, damages—26-513
Partial taking—26-513
Private roads, damages—26-513
Railroads—66-501
Roads and highways—68-114, 68-137, 68-138
Appeals—68-107
Benefit districts—68-703, 68-728, 68-733, 68-737
Trees and Shrubbery, damages—26-513
Street railways—66-911

Federal Land Office

Land Patents—58-2101 et seq.
Lists of lands granted to state—75-2812
State land office relinquishing color of title—75-2810

Fences

Generally—29-101 et seq.
Trespass, damages for—29-108
Construction—29-102, 29-103
Eminent domain—26-513
Gates—29-103
Legal and sufficient fence—29-104
Legal enclosures—29-101 et seq.

Field Notes

Records of surveyor—19-1407
Copies of—19-1415
Original federal surveys—19-1418

Geological Survey

Commission on applied remote sensing, ex officio member—74-7701

High Water Mark

Conveyance to—82a-202

Indian Land

Purchase of—58-2249

Kansas State Board of Technical Professions

Generally—74-7001 et seq.
Disciplinary authority—74-7026, 74-7027, 74-7028
Land surveying—74-7003
Definitions—74-7004
Practice of, unlawful without license—74-7001
Licensure
Continuing education—74-7007, 74-7025
Denial—74-7028
Examinations—74-7009, 74-7013, 74-7017
Fees—74-7009, 74-7025, 74-7026
Loss or destruction, re-issue—74-7025
Qualifications for—74-7022
Reciprocity—74-7024
Reinstatement after failure to renew—74-7025
Reinstatement after suspension or revocation—74-7026
Required—74-7017
Revocation or suspension—74-7026
Seals—74-7007
Standards regulating quality—74-7037
Violations and penalties—74-7001, 74-7029, 74-7039

Kansas State Historical Society

Generally—75-2701 et seq.
Certified documents, copies and records—75-2705
Historic preservation program—75-2715 et seq.
Survey, statewide—75-2721
Land survey fee fund—58-2011
Section corner reference reports—58-2011

Land

Defined—12-519

Land Patents

Recording—58-2101
Railroads, recording—58-2248

Land Surveyor

See State Board of Technical Professions—74-7001 et seq.
Certificate of authorization—74-7001, 74-7036
Fees—74-7009
Renewal fees—74-7025
Revocation, reinstatement—74-7025, 74-7026
Appeals—74-7028
Corporations—74-7036
Crimes and penalties—74-7001
Definitions, technical profession—74-7003
Examinations—74-7004, 74-7009, 74-7013, 74-7022
Incorporation—17-2706 et seq.
Licenses
Application—74-7009
Examinations—74-7004, 74-7013, 74-7022
Fees—74-7009
Renewals, application, fees—74-7009
Unlawful practice—74-7001
Practice of land surveying, regulation—74-7001 et seq.
Right of Entry—74-7046
Roster—74-7010
Survey corners
Alteration, removal, damage, destruction—21-3724
Failure to file, penalties—58-2001
Filing of surveys and references, fees—58-2011
Restoration reports, fee—58-2011

Land Surveys

Fees, land survey fee fund—58-2011
Landmark, tampering with, criminal code—21-3724
Monumentation of subdivision boundary—58-2001, 58-2002
Public survey—75-2809
Records, duty to furnish by local government agencies—58-2010
Recordation of references—58-2003
Review of subdivision plats before recording—58-2005
Review of surveys before recording—58-2005

Levees and Flood Control

Floodplains
Defined—12-734
Subdivision regulations—12-705, 12-734, 12-735
Water resources, division of, chief engineer authority—12-734, 12-735
Zoning—12-707, 12-710, 12-735
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Contracts—12-635
Constructed dikes or control works—12-646a

Liens

Contractors’ liens—60-1101 et seq.
Limitations—60-1105
Expiration of lien after filing—58-2254
Liens for labor and material—60-1101 et seq.
Small claims procedure—61-2701 et seq.

Maps and Plats

Cemeteries—17-1302, 17-1304, 17-1308, 17-1310, 17-1323
Cities—12-401 et seq., 12-705 et seq.
Consolidation of municipalities—12-319, 12-326 et seq.
County zoning—19-2918 et seq.
Errors, correction of—12-420
Exclusion, unplatted tracts—12-504 et seq.
Form and contents—12-401
Frontage of lots, change—12-514, 12-515, 12-516
Levees and flood control, improvements—12-636
Microphotographed copies—58-2224
Mines, coal, rock or limestone—49-201
Photographic copies—58-2224
Planning commission—12-704, 12-705
Public lands—12-411
Records and recordation, Register of Deeds—19-1204 et seq.
Restoration of lost plat—12-413 et seq.
Streets and alleys—12-401 et seq., 12-704, 12-705
Title of property, vesting in land conveyed for public use—12-406, 12-406a
Townships—19-230, 58-2601 et seq.
Vacating platted lands—12-512b, 58-2613 et seq.
Zoning—19-2904, 19-2905
Cities—12-708
Counties—19-2919

Mines

Abandonment—49-201
Adjoining land—49-106
Maps of mines—49-201
Surveys—49-101
Right of entry for—49-105
Penalty for refusing entry—49-108
Temporary Injunction—49-103

Municipalities

Generally—12-101 et seq.
Lots and blocks
Conveyances by certain heirs—58-2609
Development—58-2602 et seq.
Subdivision of land—58-2602 et seq.

Navigable Waters

Generally—82a-201 et seq.
Abandoned channel, survey—82a-204, 82a-209
Acquisition of new channel—82a-201
Alteration of channel by flood or avulsion—82a-201, 82a-209
Deeds and conveyances, new channels—82a-202
Eminent domain, new channels—82a-201, 82a-203

North

Magnetic—19-1421
True Meridian—19-1421

Parks

Adverse possession—58-2247
Cemetery land—12-1310, 12-1311
Subdivision regulations—12-705

Planning Commission

Lot splitting—12-705b
Subdivision of land—12-705, 19-2905, 19-2928
Zoning, land outside city limits—12-715b

Plats (See also Maps and Plats)

Cemetery—12-1002, 17-1302, 17-1308
Cities and townsites—12-401
Lost—12-413
Notice to file—12-326 et seq.
Original town—58-2612a
Subdivisions—12-705b
Vacation of—58-2613 et seq.

Public Lands

Patents—58-2101 et seq.

Railroads

Deeds recorded by register of state land office—58-2248

Recordation

Deeds and conveyances—58-2239, 58-2241
Maps and plans, dams—82a-302
Maps and plats—12-401 et seq
Correcting errors—12-420
Records open to public—45-201
Register of Deeds—19-1204 et seq.
Roads and highways
Resurveys—68-108
Surveys—68-108
Section corner reference reports—58-2003, 58-2011
Section lines, relocating—68-104
Surveys, counties—19-1407 et seq.

Recreational Areas (Land and Water)

Limitation of liability of owners—58-3201 et seq.
Trails—58-3211 et seq.

Register of Deeds

Generally—19-1201 et seq.
Cemetery corporations, surveys and plats, recordation—17-1302, 17-1308
Defective instruments validated—58-2237
Land patents—58-2101
Maps and plats—12-326, 12-401 et seq.
Errors, correction of—12-420
Marketable record title, notice of claim—58-3407
Numerical index—19-1209
Plats of subdivisions, filing after approval—12-705b
Quieting title, illegible, damaged or destroyed records—19-1219
Recording notice, claims of interest in land—58-3407
Surveys
Federal surveys, plats and field notes—19-1418
Filing—19-1426
Public surveys—58-2003
Recordation of certain points and measurements—58-2003
Transfer record—58-2241

Replat

Cemetery—17-1304, 17-1310, 17-1323

Reversion

Streets, alleys, or reservations—12-506, 13-443

Rivers and Streams

Abandoned channels, surveys—82a-204, 82a-209
Abandonment, condemnation proceedings—82a-203
Acquisition of new channels—82a-201
Adjoining landowners, obstructions caused by—82a-308
Alteration by flood or avulsion—82a-201, 82a-202
Arkansas River Compact—82a-520
Eminent domain, new channel—82a-201 et seq.
Obstructions—82a-301 et seq.
Maps and plans—82a-302
Surveys, cleaning and maintenance by county—82a-307a
Republican River Compact—82a-518
Surveys
Abandoned channels—82a-204, 82a-209
Channel maintenance, proceeds from sand products—82a-311

Roads and highways

Access from adjoining land—68-117
County roads—68-101
Eminent domain—68-114, 68-703, 68-728, 68-733, 68-737
Laying out—68-102 et seq.
Maps—68-703, 68-703
Platted lands outside cities—68-728
Resident landowner defined—68-701
Surveys
Benefit districts—68-703
County line roads, establishment—68-109
Laying out or altering roads—68-104, 68-106
Resurveys—68-108
Surveyors, compensation of—68-110
Vacation of—68-102, 68-114

Sections

See also
County Line
County Surveyor
Land Surveyor
Land Surveys

Section Corners

Establishment of section corners closing on a parallel or baseline—19-1411
Evidence, taking on survey—19-1419
Method of subdividing sections into quarter sections—19-1409
Procedure in establishing—19-1423
Protection of—58-2011
Protection of corner stones—19-1430
Re-establishment of missing corners—19-1412, 19-1432
Reference ties—58-2003
Rules for resurvey—19-1422
Set or reset—58-2003
Survey affecting county line—19-1428

State Land Office

Generally—75-2801 et seq.
Abandoned channel surveys—82a-204
Chain of title—75-2801
Field notes, public surveys—75-2809
Indexed books—75-2801
Maps, public surveys—75-2809
Patents—58-2101 et seq.
Correction of defective—75-2814
Preservation of records—75-2801
Public surveys—75-2809
Quitclaim deeds—75-2811
Secretary of State, ex officio register—75-2801
Tract books—75-2802, 75-2803
United States
Color of title, relinquishment—75-2810
Lands granted to state—75-2812

State Plane Coordinates

Definitions—58-20a06
Legal descriptions—58-20a04
Zones—58-20a01

Streets and Alleys

Acquisition of lands—12-671
Eminent domain—26-501 et seq.
Improvements, assessments, unplatted or partially platted lands—12-606
Maps and plats—12-401 et seq., 12-704, 12-705
Opening and closing of—13-443
Reversion of vacated street, alley, or reservation—12-506
Right-of-way, acquisition, special assessments, exemptions—12-692
Subdivision regulations—12-705
Trees and shrubbery, municipal regulation—12-3201 et seq.
Vacating—12-504 et seq., 12-512b, 58-2613 et seq.
Reservation of rights—12-512a

Subdivisions

Boundary monumentation—58-2001, 58-2002
Information required with—58-2004
Review before recordation—58-2005
Vacating platted lands—12-512b, 58-2613 et seq.

Title

Marketable record title defined—58-3403
Preserving a claim of interest—58-3406 et seq.
Quieting title—60-1002

Townhouse Ownership Act

Generally—58-3701 et seq.

Townsites

Generally—58-2601 et seq.

Township

Area—19-217, 19-1432
Boundaries—19-212, 19-309
Alteration—19-230
Partition fences—29-318
Zoning—19-2901 et seq.
Lines, boundaries of counties—18-201
Maps—12-401 et seq.

Tract

Defined—12-519

Trespassing

Criminal Trespass—21-3721
Surveyor's right of entry --74-7046

Uniform Land Sales Practices Act
Generally—58-3301 et seq.

Vacations

City streets and alleys—12-512b
Easements—12-504, 12-505, 12-512b, 58-2613
Platted lands—12-512b, 58-2613 et seq.
Setback lines—58-2613

Water and Watercourses

Abandoned channels
Condemnation proceedings—82a-203
Survey—82a-204, 82a-209
Acquisition of new channel—82a-201
Alteration of channels by flood or avulsion—82a-2023
Appropriation of water—82a-701 et seq.
Deeds and conveyances—82a-202
Easements—82a-409
Maps, plans or plats, application for permit—82a-710

Zoning

Adoption of—12-756, 12-749
Board of zoning appeals
Cities—12-714 et seq.
Townships—19-2901 et seq.
Cities—12-707 et seq.
Lands within 3 miles of city limits—12-715b
Floodplain zoning—12-754, 12-766, 19-2908, 19-2921
Approval—12-734, 12-735
Rules and Regulations—12-735
Standards—12-735
Violation of—12-710
Water resources—12-734, 12-735
Improvement districts—19-2950 et seq.
Maps and plats—19-2904, 19-2905
Nonconforming use—12-770, 12-771
Planning commission—12-744 et seq.
Plat approval—12-749, 12-752
Plats and platting—19-2961
Records—29-2903, 29-2905, 19-2910
Regulations and violations—19-2960, 19-2963
Replats, approval—19-2905
Subdivisions of land—19-2918 et seq.
Subdivision regulations—12-749 et seq.
Unincorporated areas, subdivision of—19-2961
Zoning districts and classifications—19-2960

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