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Colorado Statutes/TITLE 38 PROPERTY - REAL AND PERSONAL/SURVEY PLATS AND MONUMENT RECORDS/ARTICLE 51 MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR LAND SURVEYS AND PLATS/38-51-108. Improvement location certificate.

38-51-108. Improvement location certificate.

Statute text

(1) A professional land surveyor may prepare an improvement location certificate for the use of a specific client based upon such professional land surveyor's general knowledge of land boundaries and monuments in a given area if such client is not the owner or buyer; except that a copy of such certificate shall be provided to such owner or buyer.

(2) (a) (I) A certificate prepared pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall not be designated as or construed as being a land survey plat or improvement survey plat.

(II) Such certificate shall be prominently labeled "improvement location certificate" and contain a statement in the following form:

IMPROVEMENT LOCATION CERTIFICATE

I hereby certify that this improvement location certificate was prepared for .... (individual or firm) ...., that it is not a land survey plat or improvement survey plat, and that it is not to be relied upon for the establishment of fence, building, or other future improvement lines.

I further certify that the improvements on the above described parcel on this date, .... (insert date) ...., except utility connections, are entirely within the boundaries of the parcel, except as shown, that there are no encroachments upon the described premises by improvements on any adjoining premises, except as indicated, and that there is no apparent evidence or sign of any easement crossing or burdening any part of said parcel, except as noted.
Stamp                                                    By ............(Signed).............
or
Seal                                                    Date ...................................

(b) A professional land surveyor shall assume full liability for each improvement location certificate done by such professional land surveyor or under such professional land surveyor's responsible charge pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (2).

History

Source: L. 94: Entire article R&RE, p. 1521, § 47, effective July 1.

Annotations

Editor's note: This section was contained in an article that was repealed and reenacted in 1994. Provisions of this section, as it existed in 1994, are similar to those contained in 38-51-105 as said section existed in 1993, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this article.