• § 36-7-1 - Requirement of County Surveyor for Each County; Appointment of Assistants or Deputies
  There must be one county surveyor for each county. The surveyor is empowered to appoint one or more assistants or deputies, for whose conduct...
• § 36-7-2 - Election, Commissioning, Qualification, and Removal of County Surveyor; Qualifications
  (a) County surveyors shall be elected, commissioned, qualified, and removed as are clerks of the superior courts and shall hold their offices for four...
• § 36-7-2.1 - Abolishing Elected Office and Authorizing Appointment; Qualifications of Appointed Surveyor
  (a) The General Assembly may by local law abolish the office of elected county surveyor in any county of this state and authorize the...
• § 36-7-3 - Procedure When Election Fails to Fill Office; Procedure in Event of Vacancy
  (a) Whenever an election fails to fill the office of county surveyor, the judge of the probate court shall appoint a person to serve...
• § 36-7-4 - Commissioning of Surveyor
  A county surveyor who derives his authority from appointment needs no commission beyond the order of the judge of the probate court entered on...
• § 36-7-5 - Oath of Office; Bond and Security
  In addition to the oath required of all public officers, the county surveyor must take the following oath before entering on the duties of...
• § 36-7-6 - Oath of Assistant; Entry of Appointment of Assistant on Minutes of Probate Court
  When an assistant is appointed by the county surveyor, he must take the same oath the county surveyor takes. The fact of his appointment...
• § 36-7-7 - Place of Office
  The county surveyor may keep his office at his place of abode, if within the limits of the county. The county shall not be...
• § 36-7-8 - Duties of Surveyor Generally
  It shall be the duty of the county surveyor: (1) To observe punctually and carry into effect all such orders as he may receive...
• § 36-7-9 - Establishment of Fees
  (a) The county surveyor shall be allowed to establish a reasonable fee for each of the following acts: (1) Surveying a town lot and...
• § 36-7-10 - Payment of Fees Generally
  The fees for surveys made by the county surveyor for private or corporate benefit shall be paid by the person or corporation ordering the...
• § 36-7-11 - Issuance of Execution for Fees
  A county surveyor who makes a survey for a person who neglects to pay him may make oath before the judge of the probate...
• § 36-7-12 - Surveys or Plats Deemed Presumptive Evidence of Facts
  Surveys or plats of lands within his county, made by the county surveyor under order of court and on notice to all the parties,...
• § 36-7-13 - Persons Who May Perform Duties of Office When There is No County Surveyor; Oath; Liability
  (a) When there is no county surveyor, any person who is a citizen of this state and who holds a current and valid certificate...
• § 36-7-14 - Appointment of Disinterested Surveyor; Oath
  When any county surveyor is interested in any survey to be made, the judge of the superior court or the judge of the probate...
• § 36-7-15 - Removal of Surveyor From Office
  The county surveyor, whether elected or appointed, may be removed by the judge of the probate court for want of capacity, in the same...
• § 36-7-16 - Penalty for Making False Survey
  Any county surveyor or other person acting as such who knowingly surveys nonvacant land as vacant land or makes any other false survey shall...

Last modified: October 14, 2016