General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 97 Surveying of Land

• Massachusetts General Laws - Posts and pillars indicating meridian lines; ownership; accessibility; destruction or injury - 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual adjustment and verification of compass; record - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of measuring devices - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 182, Sec. 1 - Chapter 97, Section 4 to 6
  Repealed, 1956, 182, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to adjust compass - Chapter 97, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts Coordinate System NAD, 1983; mainland and island zones - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Zones, designation - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coordinates, definition - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conversion of meters to United States survey feet - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts Coordinate System NAD, 1983; definition - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation on use of name of system - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coordinate System NAD, 1927; continued use - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coordinates; location of points on earth’s surface - Chapter 97, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coordinate System NAD, 1927; definition - Chapter 97, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of system in describing locations of survey stations or land boundary points - Chapter 97, 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...

Last modified: September 11, 2015