Chapter 97

Section 1. The posts or pillars erected pursuant to chapter two hundred and eighty-six of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy to indicate the true meridian lines shall remain the property of the respective counties in which they are situated, under the care of the county com…

Section 10. The plane rectangular coordinates of a point on the earth's surface, shall be used in expressing the position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of said system, and shall consist of two distances, either expressed in meters and decimals of meters or in …

Section 11. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the conversion of the coordinates on the metric system to the United States Survey Foot nor shall the use of distances in feet and decimals of a foot be prohibited from any map, report of survey, deed, or other document…

Section 12. For the purpose of more precisely defining said system: 1. The Massachusetts Coordinate System, NAD, 1983, Mainland Zone, Federal Zone Code M2001, is a Lambert conformal conic projection of the North American Datum of 1983, having standard parallels at north latitudes…

Section 13. The use of the term ''Massachusetts Coordinate System'' on any map, report of survey, or deed or other document, shall be limited to coordinates based on the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System as defined in sections eight to thirteen, inclusive.

Section 14. The coordinate system based upon the North American Datum of 1927 which prior to the enactment of this statute was defined as the Massachusetts Coordinate System shall be now designated the Coordinate System, North American Datum of 1927, (NAD 1927), and can continue …

Section 15. The plane rectangular coordinates of a point on the earth's surface, to be used in expressing the position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of said system, shall consist of two distances, expressed in feet and decimals of a foot. One of these distance…

Section 16. The Coordinate System, North American Datum of 1927, Mainland Zone, consists of a Lambert conformal projection of the Clarke spheroid of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, having the standard parallels at north latitude 41° (degrees) 43′ (minutes) and 42° (degrees) 41′ (…

Section 17. For the purpose of describing the location of any survey station or land boundary point in the commonwealth it shall be a complete, legal and satisfactory description of such location to give the position of said survey station or land boundary point on the Massachuse…

Section 2. Every land surveyor shall, at least once in every year, adjust and verify his compass by the meridian line so established in the county in which his surveys are to be made, insert in his field notes both the true and the magnetic bearings of the lines of his surveys an…

Section 3. Every land surveyor shall use only tapes or other types of measuring devices which have been approved for use under regulations promulgated by the board of registration of professional engineers and land surveyors as authorized by sections eighty-one D to eighty-one T,…

Section 7. A surveyor who violates the provisions of section two, if he has used his compass to measure an angle in surveying within the year preceding, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars, to be divided between the complainant and the county.

Section 8. The system of plane rectangular coordinates shall be the North American Datum of 1983 as established by the National Ocean Services/National Geodetic Survey (NOS/NGS), or its successors for defining and stating the geographic positions or locations of points on the sur…

Section 9. As established for use in the mainland zone, said system shall be named, and in any land description in which it is used it shall be designated, the ''Massachusetts Coordinate System, NAD 1983, Mainland Zone''. As established for use in the island zone, said system sha…