Survey of Government Land: Duty of Guam

Surveyor.

(a)All real property belonging to the government of Guam for which certificates of title have not been issued, shall be surveyed and mapped in order to accomplish the registration of such property. The Guam Surveyor shall carry out a program, on a continuing basis, to so survey and register government-owned land, and such program shall include, but not necessarily be limited to the following:

(1)Completing the calculation and field traverse necessary to establish the Guam Geodetic Triangulation Net, including the referencing of all markers, the integration of such system with those previously established on Guam, and the restoration of all monuments destroyed since the initiation of said system;

(2)Researching all existing survey records and plans, selecting those surveys that can be utilized, updating such survey by connecting them to the Guam Geodetic Triangulation Net, verifying questionable boundaries, and completing registration proceedings for those lots for which surveys already exist;

(3)Selecting from the remaining parcels of government land those parcels of highest land value and proceeding to survey them in order of value, on a parcel basis, until all government of Guam land is surveyed;

(4)Putting all parcels of government of Guam land on the cadastral maps of the government;

(5)Submitting to the Legislature, prior to any appropriations, a systematic program of planned surveys for the following year, showing the estimated amounts of funds needed for each such separate survey, and the estimated time of completion.

(b)There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of not to exceed Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($900,000) to carry out the purposes of this Law.