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Indiana Specific Law Exam (Part 2B)

Provider
State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors
Format
Written examination with multiple-choice questions and a graded legal-description writing problem
Time limit
2.5 hours
Passing score
70%
Examination outline
  • Principles and practice — Indiana Section B (IC 25-21.5-6-1(2)(B))
    • Federal laws and regulations
    • Practices pertaining to the establishment, description, and reestablishment of land boundaries
    • The platting of subdivisions
    • Ethical, economic, and legal principles relating to the practice of surveying
    • Principles of mathematics relating to the practice of surveying
    • Indiana laws and rules
    • Work that the professional surveyor is permitted to perform under IC 25-21.5
    • Writing and interpreting legal descriptions and solving narrative problems regarding the analysis and execution of surveys and survey problems
  • Legal description writing problem
    • No abbreviations
    • No symbols, other than for degrees, minutes and seconds
    • Correct spelling and punctuation
    • Adequate curve data
    • Designation of the basis of bearings
    • Appropriate reference to the Office of the County Recorder
    • Proper caption referencing the underlying original survey
    • Proper controlling calls to or along monuments, aliquot lines, adjoiners, water features, and other appropriate controls
    • Adequate and appropriate curve data
    • Proper reference to controlling physical monuments, including relationship to the surface of the ground
    • No conflicting or extraneous wording
    • Reference to and along a meander line, if appropriate
  • Multiple-choice questions — published general topics
    • Engineering Design
    • Indiana Rules and Regulations related to surveying
    • Indiana Survey Standards and IC 25-21.5-1-6.5
    • Indiana continuing education requirements
    • Geodesy
    • ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
    • Surveyor General Edward Tiffin’s instructions for surveys of the public lands
    • The United States Public Land Surveys System
    • Legal Principles
    • Legal Descriptions
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