22 Tex. Admin. Code § 138.95 - Descriptions Prepared for Political Subdivisions
A registrant or licensee may prepare, sign, and seal a metes and bounds description from public land title records upon satisfying all of the following minimum conditions:
(1) The description is prepared for a
political subdivision of the state (which is defined as a county, city,
district, or other body politic of the state having a jurisdiction over only a
portion of the state) for the sole purpose of defining or modifying the
boundaries of the political subdivision.
(2) The description must be unambiguous and
locatable on the ground by ordinary surveying procedures;
(3) Any record monument or physical
monumentation called for in the description must be in place at the time the
surveyor prepares the description and the surveyor must have personal knowledge
of such monument sufficient to give a proper current description for the
monument and its accessories;
(4)
The surveyor signing the work must have performed an on the ground survey to
support any course and distance recited in the description, except that the
description may quote courses and distances from recorded documents (such as
deeds) as long as the recording reference for any recited document is also
quoted in the description; and
(5)
Any survey document prepared under this rule shall bear a note as follows:
"This document was prepared under 22 Texas Administrative Code §
138.95, does not reflect the
results of an on the ground survey, and is not to be used to convey or
establish interests in real property except those rights and interests implied
or established by the creation or reconfiguration of the boundary of the
political subdivision for which it was prepared."
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