Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - LAND SURVEYORS BOARD OF EXAMINERS
Title 234 - Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors - Agency 62
Chapter 13 - Minimum Standards for Improvement Location Reports


Current through March 20, 2024

(A) Preface

These standards are the minimum requirements for improvement Location Reports in the State of Nebraska.

An Improvement Location Report is not represented as a survey or land survey, but rather a report in the form of a plat or map which shows the location of topographic features actually located in a spatial relationship to a tract of land defined by an existing legal description provided by a client. The Improvement Location Report may include the activities of land surveying defined in Nebraska Revised Statute, § 81-8,109(4)(d), as amended.

(B) Research and Investigation

1. The professional land surveyor uses the description furnished by the client to perform the Improvement Location Report. If the professional land surveyor determines the description is incomplete, insufficient, or subject to junior/senior rights, the professional land surveyor will advise the client that additional information will be necessary to complete the Improvement Location Report. The professional land surveyor should advise the client that an Improvement Location Report may not be sufficient and that a land survey will be necessary.

2. After all necessary written documents as furnished by the client have been analyzed by the professional land surveyor, the report shall be based on a field investigation of the property. The professional land surveyor shall make a thorough search or physical monuments and analyze evidence of occupation. A minimum of two (2) monuments, acceptable to the professional land surveyor, within the same block in urban situations and within the same section in rural situations, either found or re-established, shall be used.

3. Monuments may be permanent or semi-permanent points such as those commonly recognized by a professional land surveyor including, but not limited to, stones, axles, rebars, crosses, or pipes. Fence lines, mowing lines, hedge rows, etc. are not considered acceptable monuments or representations of the legal boundaries of a tract of land for purposes of defining the boundary of the tract in the improvement location report. Appropriate survey instrumentation and measuring equipment shall be utilized.

4. A professional land surveyor registered in the State of Nebraska should not provide to any party an Improvement Location Report unless in possession of a work order signed by the client as an indication that they have been advised of the difference between an improvement location report and a land survey, and the scope of each.

(C) Drafting

A document titled "Improvement Location Report" with a sketch of the location and spatial relationship of improvements to the tract of land as located, shall include the following minimum information:

1. Lot or boundary lines with the dimensions from the deed description or recorded plat and any measured distances between found monuments.

2. Major improvements, such as permanent structures, with dimensions and descriptions (e.g., residences, garages, outbuildings with foundations, etc.).

3. Major improvements spatially located on the tract with dimensions to the lot or boundary lines, with two dimensions in opposite directions shown for each object.

4. Distances are to be shown radial or perpendicular to the Lot or boundary line.

5. The level of certainty of the measurements indicated by the significant digits of each dimension or by means of a general note. Examples: 7.25' (± 0.05'), 12.5' (± 0.5'), 20' (±1')

6. Monuments accepted and described.

7. Easements provided to the professional land surveyor by the client.

8. A north arrow and scale.

9. A statement that the accompanying Improvement Location Report is a representation of the conditions that were found at the time of the field investigation and that the document does not constitute a land survey and is subject to any inaccuracies that a subsequent land survey may disclose.

10. A statement that the information shown on the Improvement Location Report may not be used to establish any fence, structure, or other improvements.

11. A statement whether the parcel dimensions shown i are based on plat or deed information and those verified by measurement as shown.

12. A statement that the Improvement Location Report represents only visible improvements.

13. The legal description of the tract of land included on the report.

14. The professional land surveyor's signature, seal, and date of the report.

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