Title 50, Surveys and Surveyors
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La. Rev. Stat. § 50:1 Definitions
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§1. Definitions The terms defined in this Section have the following meaning when found in this Chapter: (1) "Deprecation" means a decision to discontinue the use of a specific unit or method of measurement. (2) "Geodetic coordinate" means angular coordinates defined relative to …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:10 Use of Louisiana coordinate system names
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§10. Use of Louisiana coordinate system names Use of the terms "Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927", "Louisiana Coordinate System of 1983", and "Louisiana Plane Coordinate System" on any map, report of a survey, or other document shall be limited to coordinates based on the coor…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:11 Repealed by Acts 2024, No
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§11. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 626, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:121 Reasons for surveys
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§121. Reasons for surveys The Register of the State Land Office may cause surveys and resurveys to be made, in order to establish or re-establish township lines, range lines, section lines, corners, and half-mile stations, where the original monuments have been destroyed or lost …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:122 Register may procure field notes and hire surveyors and helpers to make survey
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§122. Register may procure field notes and hire surveyors and helpers to make survey The Register of the State Land Office may, from time to time, procure necessary field notes, where any exist from actual surveys, and may employ one or more competent surveyors and the necessary …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:123 Petition for survey; notice; survey and map; cost
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§123. Petition for survey; notice; survey and map; cost Upon petition of any individual owning land in any township, or section thereof, which has never been surveyed or which has been only partially surveyed or in which the lines or corners have become obliterated or are uncerta…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:124 Landowners' liability for expenses
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§124. Landowners' liability for expenses The Register of the State Land Office may charge to landowners desiring a survey or re-survey its actual cost and expense, including the cost and expense of establishing or re-establishing the lines, corners, and half-mile stations and the…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:125 Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands granted
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§125. Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands granted In making re-surveys under the provisions of this Part, the surveyor shall, as nearly as possible, re-establish the original lines of any prior survey made under United States or state authority. In all towns…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:126 Filing of field notes and map or plat; effect of approval
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§126. Filing of field notes and map or plat; effect of approval In all cases where the Register of the State Land Office has caused a township, or one or more sections thereof, to be surveyed or resurveyed, field notes of this survey and the map or plat thereof shall be filed in …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:127 Recording of copy of proces verbal and of map or plat of survey in parish; filing of originals
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§127. Recording of copy of proces verbal and of map or plat of survey in parish; filing of originals Whenever the register of the State Land Office approves a survey, whether it be an original survey or a re-survey, and whether or not a prior survey had theretofore been approved,…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:128 Conclusiveness of survey; evidence; correcting or setting aside
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§128. Conclusiveness of survey; evidence; correcting or setting aside All surveys or re-surveys, and the plats thereof, approved by the Register of the State Land Office, are binding on all parties, and copies thereof, certified by the clerk of court or by the Register of the Sta…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:151 Authorization to hire surveyors, procure field notes, and make surveys
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§151. Authorization to hire surveyors, procure field notes, and make surveys Any parish, except the Parish of Orleans, may procure necessary field notes from any previous survey and may employ one or more competent surveyors to survey or re-survey and establish or reestablish tow…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:152 Petition by landowners for survey; survey and map
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§152. Petition by landowners for survey; survey and map Upon the petition of landowners owning more than fifty per cent of the land in a township which has never been wholly surveyed or the lines of which are obliterated or destroyed, the governing authority of the parish in whic…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:153 Cost of survey or re-survey
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§153. Cost of survey or re-survey Except in the situation referred to in R.S. 50:152, the governing authority of the parish may appropriate money out the general fund of the parish to defray the expenses of the survey or resurvey and of the establishing or re-establishing of the …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:154 Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands sold by state or by U.S
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§154. Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands sold by state or by U.S. In making his survey, the surveyor shall, as nearly as possible, re-establish the original lines of any prior survey made under United States or state authority. Where no survey has been made…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:155 Recording copy of resolution, proces verbal of survey, and blue print maps in parish; filing with State Land Office
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§155. Recording copy of resolution, proces verbal of survey, and blue print maps in parish; filing with State Land Office When the governing authority of the parish approves a survey under the provisions of this Part, whether it is an original or a re-survey, and whether or not a…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:156 Establishing permanent markers after survey approval
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§156. Establishing permanent markers after survey approval After the governing authority of the parish has approved a survey under this Part, it shall establish appropriate markers made of some permanent material on the lines, corners, or half-mile stations covered by the survey.…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:157 Surveys affecting parish boundary lines; how made official
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§157. Surveys affecting parish boundary lines; how made official Wherever, under the provisions of this Part, a boundary line between two or more parishes is involved, the survey affecting that line shall be approved, in accordance with the provisions of this Part, by the governi…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:171 Statewide land information mapping and records system; standards
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§171. Statewide land information mapping and records system; standards A. The state land office shall establish, promulgate, and maintain appropriate standards for a statewide land information mapping and map records system of all lands, private and public, within the state of Lo…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:172 Technical assistance and implementation
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§172. Technical assistance and implementation A. The division of administration, office of state lands, shall provide technical assistance and advice to local governmental units and assessors in the development of land information mapping and records systems and the implementatio…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:173 Maintaining currency of standards
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§173. Maintaining currency of standards The office of state lands shall have the authority to promulgate and adopt such additional standards and upgrade existing standards regarding land information and records systems by rules adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:173.1 Geodetic control standards
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§173.1. Geodetic control standards Controls for all surveys shall be determined in the National Spatial Reference System or its successors. All measurements shall be referenced to local control stations of the National Spatial Reference System or its successors, specifically the …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:174 Parish land information office
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§174. Parish land information office A. Parish land information mapping and records system programs may be initiated by either the parish government or by the parish office of the assessor. B. Each parish government or assessor may either establish a parish land information offic…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:2 State plane coordinate system; zones
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§2. State plane coordinate system; zones A. The official geodetic datums for geodetic coordinates referenced within the state shall be as defined by the National Spatial Reference System established by the National Geodetic Survey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:221 Fixing parish boundary
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§221. Fixing parish boundary Whenever the governing authority of any parish desires to ascertain and fix the boundary line of any adjoining parish, it shall pass an ordinance to that effect fixing a time and place for starting the running of the boundary. It shall then serve the …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:222 Preserving returns showing boundary
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§222. Preserving returns showing boundary After a boundary line has been run and marked as prescribed in R.S. 50:221, due return of the survey shall be made to the presiding officer of the governing authority of each parish and he shall have it filed and preserved in the office o…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:223 Repealed by Acts 1968, No
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§223. Repealed by Acts 1968, No. 155, §1
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:224 Repealed by Acts 1972, No
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§224. Repealed by Acts 1972, No. 353, §1
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:225 Contracts for surveys and maps of parish
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§225. Contracts for surveys and maps of parish Any parish governing authority may contract for an aerial survey and mosaic map of its parish. This survey and map shall be drawn to scale and shall show range and township reference, township lines, section lines, and such other gen…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:226 Payment of obligations incurred incidental to survey and mosaic map
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§226. Payment of obligations incurred incidental to survey and mosaic map The cost of the contracted obligation incurred incidental to the survey and mosaic map as required in R.S. 50:225 shall be paid for by all tax recipient bodies in the parish in the proportion that each shar…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:227 Survey and map approved by parish governing authority; effect
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§227. Survey and map approved by parish governing authority; effect When an aerial survey and mosaic map of the parish have been approved by the governing authority of the parish by a proper resolution, they are the official survey and mosaic map of the parish and shall be fully …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:228 Effect of survey on assessment roll of parish
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§228. Effect of survey on assessment roll of parish Upon the completion of an aerial survey and mosaic map of the parish and the approval thereof by the parish governing authority, as provided in R.S. 50:227, the assessor of the parish shall compare the assessment roll of the par…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:271 §§271 to 283 Repealed by Acts 1968, No
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§271. §§271 to 283 Repealed by Acts 1968, No. 155, §1; Acts 1968, No. 533, §9
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:3 Linear units defined
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§3. Linear units defined A. The plane coordinates used to express the position or location of a point on the earth's surface within an appropriate plane coordinate system zone shall consist of two distances which shall be expressed in meters and decimals of a meter or in feet and…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:4 Describing of location
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§4. Describing of location For purposes of describing the location of any point in the state of Louisiana, it shall be considered a complete, legal, and satisfactory description of such location to give the position of a survey station or land boundary corner on the system of pla…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:5 Purchaser or mortgagee reliance on description
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§5. Purchaser or mortgagee reliance on description Nothing contained in this Chapter shall require a purchaser or mortgagee to rely on a description which depends exclusively upon a particular state plane coordinate system. Acts 1985, No. 913, §1; Acts 2024, No. 626, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:6 Land in different zones
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§6. Land in different zones When any tract of land to be defined by a single description extends from one zone into another, the positions of all points on its boundaries may be referred to either of the two zones, but the zone which is used shall be specifically named in the des…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:61 Right of entry
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§61. Right of entry Any person employed in the execution of a survey authorized by the Congress of the United States may enter upon lands within the state for the purpose of doing any work which may be necessary to carry out the object of then existing laws relative to surveys, a…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:62 Liability for entry or work done
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§62. Liability for entry or work done The person making use of the authority conferred in R.S. 50:61 is liable for any damage caused by the entry on the land or by the work done.
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:63 Disagreement as to damages due; petition to court; costs
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§63. Disagreement as to damages due; petition to court; costs If the parties interested cannot agree upon the amount to be paid for damages caused by the entry or by the work done, either of them may petition the district court in the parish in which the land is situated to settl…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:64 Defacing, injuring, or removing property of U.S
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§64. Defacing, injuring, or removing property of U.S. survey; penalty; damages Any person who wilfully defaces, injures, or removes any property of the United States coast and geodetic, or geological, or other survey, constructed or used by virtue of an act of Congress referred t…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:7 Superseded state coordinate systems; definitions retained
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§7. Superseded state coordinate systems; definitions retained A. The Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927 was deprecated beginning December 31, 1995, and the Louisiana Coordinate System of 1983 will be deprecated upon the National Geodetic Survey's release of the National Spatial …
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:8 Accuracy requirements
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§8. Accuracy requirements A. Accuracy requirements for surveys and maps purporting to define the position of a point shall be those expressed in the Standards of Practice for Boundary Surveys promulgated by the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board or its su…
La. Rev. Stat. § 50:9 Duly authorized state agency
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§9. Duly authorized state agency The state Department of Transportation and Development is designated as the authorized state agency to administer the provisions of this Chapter, to collect and distribute information, and generally to advise with and assist appropriate state and …