Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 09 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Subtitle 13 - BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS
Chapter 09.13.06 - Minimum Standards of Practice
Section 09.13.06.02 - Definitions

(1) "Accurate and precise location" means a description of the position of a feature, object, or boundary that meets or exceeds the positional tolerance.

(2) "As-constructed survey" has the meaning stated in Regulation .07 of this chapter.

(3) "Authoritative" means the process of surveying which results in an accurately and precisely established location of a feature, object, or boundary.

(4) "Bench mark" means an identifiable stable reference point established as a record for future use or reestablishment of the elevation datum of a survey requiring vertical data.

(5) "Boundary survey" has the meaning stated in Regulation .03 of this chapter.

(6) "Certification entity" means an entity acceptable to the Board, as stated in Business Occupations and Professions Article, §15-301(b)(4), Annotated Code of Maryland, including, but not limited to, the following entities:

(7) "Consumer" means a property owner or a prospective property owner, as the case may be, for whose benefit surveying services are performed.

(8) "Date" means the date of the latest field work.

(9) "Licensee" means:

(10) "Metes and bounds description" has the meaning stated in Regulation .08 of this chapter.

(11) "Monument" means an identifiable object or marker which physically identifies the location of property division lines or other survey points on the ground.

(12) "Planimetric survey" has the meaning stated in Regulation .05 of this chapter.

(13) "Plat" means a drawing prepared at an appropriate scale to show the results of the findings and conclusions of a survey.

(14) "Positional tolerance" means the maximum allowable relative positional precision of 0.07 feet (or 2 centimeters) plus 50 parts per million, based on the direct distance between the two survey markers or monuments, as applicable.

(15) "Qualifying activity" means an activity which:

(16) "Relative positional precision" means the length of the semi-major axis expressed in feet or meters, of the error ellipse representing the uncertainty due to random errors in measurements used to control surveys in the location of the property evidence, marking any corner of the surveyed property relative to the property evidence, and marking any other corner of the surveyed property at the 95 percent confidence level (two standard deviations).

(17) "Right of way/easement survey" has the meaning stated in Regulation .09 of this chapter.

(18) "Special purpose survey" has the meaning stated in Regulation .10 of this chapter.

(19) "Survey" means the process of conducting research, performing field measurements and observations, and applying mathematical principles to determine or obtain the data necessary to record, display, or indicate, or all of these, land boundaries, land areas, and the position and characteristics of any natural or artificial, or both, features on or near the surface of the earth.

(20) "Survey marker" means, within the meaning of COMAR 09.13.03, an identifiable point, object, or mark which physically identifies the location of any point utilized or established to fix the position of a survey control station.

(21) "Surveyor" means:

(22) "Topographic survey" has the meaning stated in Regulation .04 of this chapter.

(23) "Witness monument" means an identifiable point, object, or marker offset from the position of a survey marker, boundary point, or line which is used for the purpose of identifying the position of the survey marker, boundary point, or point on line through the use of distance measurements or angular measurements, or both.