Sec. 3.
(1) The map shall be prepared on durable white paper 8-1/2 inches wide by 14 inches long. Lines on a map shall be made with nonfading black ink on a scale of not more than 500 feet to an inch the scale shall be shown on the map. The map may instead be prepared on tracing cloth or paper, and a true scale reproduction of the map pursuant to the records media act may be recorded. The map shall include all of the following:
(a) A certificate signed and sealed by the licensed land surveyor who surveyed and mapped the parcel or parcels, typed, lettered, or reproduced legibly with nonfading ink, giving a clear concise description of the land surveyed by bearings and distances, commencing with some corner marked and established in the United States public land survey, or reestablished in accordance with accepted methods. The certificate shall also include the ratio of closure of latitudes and departures, which shall be within limits accepted by the profession of land surveying, and certification by the licensed land surveyor that the requirements of this section have been met.
(b) The exterior boundaries of the land surveyed and divided, together with the line or lines leading to the United States public land survey corner, or corners, from which the land is described. A boundary along a lake or stream shall be defined by a meander line connecting the side boundaries of the parcel. If a lot in a recorded subdivision is divided, the exterior boundaries of the lot surveyed and divided shall be referenced to existing lot corners and the controlling monuments used for that survey.
(c) If the boundary of the parcel follows or parallels a section line, the section line shall be defined at its extremities by a corner established in the United States public land survey or reestablished pursuant to accepted methods. Each corner of the United States public land survey shall be duly witnessed to a permanent object and the kind of object and the bearings and distances to it, together with the kind and material of monumentation marking the corner, shall be shown on the map.
(d) A curved boundary or a curved highway, street, or lot line, if the curve is contained within the line, shall be defined by the points of curvature and tangency and compound curvature, central angle, length of arcs, degree of curvature, and length and bearing of the long chord, or, if the curve is only partially contained within the line, by the length of arc along the curve, degree of curvature, and length and bearing of the short chord, or by traverse courses and distances if the curve is not regular.
(e) If an exterior boundary line shows a bearing or length that varies from that recorded in an abutting plat or certified survey, the following note shall be placed along the line “recorded as (show bearing or length or both)”.
(f) The length and bearing of each line.
(g) The exact width of each street, highway, alley, and easement.
(h) The distance on a boundary or lot line from the point of intersection with a meander line to apparent ordinary high water line of Great Lakes waters and to the water's edge of inland lakes and streams.
(i) A north point properly located.
(2) Certified survey maps prepared pursuant to this section shall be accepted, upon payment of the regular fee schedule as provided in section 2567(1)(a) of the revised judicature act of 1961, Act No. 236 of the Public Acts of 1961, being section 600.2567 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, shall be numbered consecutively by the register of deeds, shall be recorded in bound volumes, or in a manner adapted to a system of preserving records pursuant to the records media act, and known as the “certified survey maps of .............. county”, and shall become a part of the land records of the county. A separate card file shall be kept showing by section, township, and range and also by title of recorded plat if a resurvey within such plat, the designating number, liber, and page of the certified maps filed in the bound volume, or other record.
(3) If a certified survey map is recorded pursuant to this section, the parcels of land in the map may be described with a supplemental reference to the number of the survey, the volume and page where recorded, and the name of the county, for all purposes, including assessment, taxation, devise, descent, and conveyance.
History: 1970, Act 132, Eff. Apr. 1, 1971 ;-- Am. 1988, Act 24, Imd. Eff. Feb. 25, 1988 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 183, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992
Last modified: October 10, 2016