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I am interested in chatting with anyone who owns private land surveying records about a prospective business venture. Please see my site at http://www.tiepoints.com

If you are interested, please contact me at mpallamary@pipeline.com

My goal is to make these records available and to promote them through the site as well as to others who may have need for them like surveyors, engineers, municipal agencies, lawyers and the courts.

Thank you for your consideration of this offer.

Mike,

Researching private land survey records has, and continues to be, a challenge in the private sector of the land surveying profession. Your idea of a central data base and research center has merit. Your success will depend on those holding private survey records willingness to open their files. You mention a perspective business venture, which one would assume would be a for profit venture, otherwise it would be a hard sell. Assuming this business venture is successful, would you be encouraging private surveyors to not file surveys, in violation of the PLS Act? The presumption being that the records of a surveyor who has followed the filing requirements of the PLS Act are far less valuable than one that didn’t.

An equally important related issue is the apparent violation by some county surveyors’ offices of the Public Records Act. The Un-Recorded maps topic has been a hot button issue for several years. Access to private records and adherence to the Public Records Act by public agencies go hand in hand.