#SAMPLE METES AND BOUNDS DESCRIPTION SERIES#

Topic Description Licensee Responsibilities Licensee must:  Take appropriate steps to ensure the security, integrity, and confidentiality of Confidential Information and must comply with all relevant applicable laws and regulations, including laws protecting borrower privacy.  A reference to the source of bearings, coordinates, and datum used.  A description of all monumentation set or found shall include, as a minimum, size and material.

Each property line of the parent tract must be described with an appropriate adjoiner call. Each course must be identified either as a proposed right-of- way line, an existing right- of-way line, or a property line of the parent tract.

Curve data must include the radius, delta angle, arc length, and long chord bearing and distance.

#SAMPLE METES AND BOUNDS DESCRIPTION SERIES#

 A series of courses, identified by number and proceeding in a clockwise direction, describing the perimeter of the parcel of land to be acquired, and delineated with appropriate bearings, distances, and curve data.  A point of beginning with the appropriate N and E surface coordinates. In any case, the metes and bounds description shall make clear which date is being used. Where possible, the Engineer shall use execution dates in deed references as opposed to recording or filing dates.  A reference by name to the grantor and grantee, date and recording data of the most current instrument(s) of conveyance describing the parent tract.

 A reference to unrecorded and recorded subdivisions by name, lot, block, and recording data to the extent applicable. Metes and bounds descriptions must include, but need not be limited to, the following items of information:  State, County, and Survey within which the proposed parcel of land to be acquired is located. The State has developed standard formats for metes and bounds descriptions, copies of which the Engineer’s Surveyor shall request and secure for all purposes of this Contract. Metes and Bounds Description. A metes and bounds description must be prepared for each parcel of land to be acquired.

Sample metes and bounds description