Proclaimed Survey Areas

(a)The Director shall declare areas of Guam where the 1993 Guam Geodetic Network has been established as Proclaimed Survey Areas.

(b)The Director shall make notification of the declaration of Proclaimed Survey Areas by advertising in the local newspaper and advising the Guam Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors.

(c)When performing surveys of land boundaries in a proclaimed survey area, surveyors shall connect their surveys to three

(3)of the 1993 Guam Geodetic Network marks. It shall not matter if the tie marks are not the nearest to the property surveyed; provided, however, that the tie traverse survey must meet the standard of accuracy required by the Department of Land Management.

(d)If the Guam Surveyor, based upon reasonable grounds, questions a survey plan as to form and accuracy, which includes definition of boundaries, as shown on a survey plan in a COL 7/27/2023 CH. 60 LAND MANAGEMENT Proclaimed Survey Area, by reason of the survey not being carried out in accordance with this law or regulations issued under this law, the Guam Surveyor may require the surveyor responsible to undertake additional work, or to provide additional information in relation to the survey in order for the Guam Surveyor to verify the survey plan as to form and accuracy, including definition of the boundaries. The Guam Surveyor shall not approve the plan until satisfied that the requirements of this law are met.

(e)The surveyor must comply with any such requirement within fourteen

(14)days or such longer period as allowed by the Guam Surveyor.

(f)The Guam Chief Surveyor and his Cartographic Technicians who edit preliminary map check prints submitted by surveyors must complete their editing processes within a period not to exceed thirty-five

(35)calendar days from the time a surveyor makes the submission. Upon completion of the editing process by two

(2)Survey Technicians, the edited check print(s) must be returned to the surveyor within the said thirty-five

(35)calendar days for the surveyor’s action in addressing comments made by the Division of Survey. Once the surveyor addresses all comments and submits the original map for final approval process within a period of not more than fifteen

(15)calendar days from the time a surveyor makes the submission. Therefore, between the period of thirty-five

(35)calendar days allowed for the Division of Survey to complete its editing processes of the map check print(s), and the fifteen

(15)additional calendar days allowed for approving the final map, the Division of Survey has a total of fifty

(50)calendar days to complete its work on any map submitted. Failure of the Guam Surveyor to disapprove in writing a survey plan submitted shall deem such plan approved. The exception will be maps containing over fifty

(50)lots delineation which maps shall be given forty-five

(45)calendar days to be edited, and an additional fifteen

(15)calendar days for approval.