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If a adjoining piece of land is surveyed to sell does isn’t the adjoining land owners need to sign a approval of the survey?

No

To what purpose?

KC

Say if the property was originally recorded but footage but never surveyed but once it was surveyed it went way past the recorded footage and land locked a property as the outcome

The survey is the survey, there is no need for a land owner to sign said survey unless of course the survey is a conveyance document, plat, short plat etc... Then the property owner would have to sign in order to execute the conveyance of property. The adjoining land owner however would not sign, unless they had some vested interest in the property being conveyed.

Typically if you disagree with a survey the course of action is to get your own survey and see if the two match up.

There are other laws about land locking property and cutting off access that may apply to this situation... Depends on your state and local laws...

In my experience, the legal description of both properties would have to be established by survey to begin with, so while the common or observable boundaries may move when surveyed, any access points described in the legal description would move with it. This is what I think.

KC

I’ve never heard of that, sir.

This

No is the correct answer from my surveying years in TX

No, why would they?

Nope.

Another way of asking might be, can an adjoining land owner stop a survey. Of course not.

They can make it more difficult if access is needed on land they own.

In lots of states, the land owner cannot deny access to a surveyor.

Barry, it might take a court order.

I get irritated when they nail those plastic buttons on my post with a warning to not remove. My post, they have no right to use it.

In Arkansas, unless it has changed since I retired, a landowner cannot keep a Survey from taking place, but both parties should have notification. Of course the one having the Survey done, already knows. This does not always happen. Sometimes it is hard to contact landowners in a timely manner and other methods prevail, like a posted notice on a door, or other things. miles

Are you asking what to do if you don't agree with found boundaries from a survey done on the adjoining property?

If you are speaking of a witness mark, I don't think it is against the law to destroy those, but the actual corner could get you a fine. Now the Federal Government has lots of concreted brass caps that are called a witness marks, that is a different story. Those are usually found around Triangulation Stations. Although lots of them have been moved and destroyed, and I know of no one that has been fined. miles

Or not. Depending on the state.

It is also unlawful to remove survey markers in most states. The warning is just a reminder that your post is now legal survey monumentation.

I guess they could remove your post, and put a nice rebar with a survey cap in the ground where the actual property boundary corner is located... I'd much prefer they put a nail and plastic marker on my post...

Some of it could depend on the brass the surveyor has. Will he stand up to a hot headed farmer telling him to get off his land?

Including NM.