(a) When land is offered for registration, the offer shall be accompanied by a survey of land to which the title is proposed to be registered. The survey shall conform to regulations of the Governor.
(b) Unless otherwise provided by regulation, the point of departure in such survey shall be either tied in with an established coordinate or be a concrete monument procured from or poured in place by an authorized representative of the Governor for that purpose and set at least 3 feet in the ground at a corner of that land.
(c) The survey shall be accompanied by a certificate of the surveyor and the pulenuu of the village in which or nearest to which the land is located, to the effect that the pulenuu gave public oral notice in the village at a meeting of the chiefs thereof of the time and place of the intended survey in order that other interested landowners might have an opportunity to be present thereat.
(d) Any person who claims to be the owner of land which is not communal property may ask that the land be surveyed by a government surveyor, at the owner’s expense, and the Governor may provide for such survey to be made by a government surveyor if private surveying services are not available. Only the senior matai of a Samoan family has the authority to request a survey of communal property of that family.
History: 1962, PL 7-31; 1968, PL 10-68; 1971, PL 12-3; readopted 1980, PL, 16-88 §§ 1,2.1982, PL 17-31 §§ 1,2.