16.16.080 Property survey.
The procedure and practice for all survey work done on any subdivision, whether for preparation of a final map or parcel map shall conform to the standards and principals of land surveying, the Business and Professions Code of the state of California Section 8700 et seq., and the provision of this chapter. All related documents shall be executed by a California-Registered Civil Engineer or licensed land surveyor.
A. At the time of making a survey for a final map or parcel map, the engineer or surveyor shall set sufficient durable monuments as provided below.
1. Monuments set shall be sufficient in number and durability and efficiently placed so as not to be readily disturbed, to assure, together with monuments already existing, the perpetuation or easy reestablishment of any point or line of the survey.
2. When monuments exist which control the location of subdivisions, tracts, streets or highways, or provide survey control, the monuments shall be located and referenced by or under the direction of a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer prior to the time when any streets or highways are reconstructed or relocated and a corner record of the references shall be filed with the county surveyor. The monuments shall be reset in the surface of the new construction, a suitable monument box placed at that location, or permanent witness monuments set to perpetuate their location, and a corner record filed with the county surveyor.
3. Sufficient controlling monuments shall be retained or replaced in their original positions to enable land lines, property corners and tract boundaries to be reestablished without devious surveys necessarily originating on monuments differing from those that currently control the area.
4. At least one exterior boundary line of a final map shall be adequately monumented or referenced before the final map is submitted for approval to the city council.
5. Interior monuments and boundary monuments other than those required in subsection (A)(2) of this section, need not be set at the time the map is recorded, if the engineer or surveyor certifies on the map the monuments will be set on or before a specified later date, and if the subdivider furnishes to the city security guaranteeing the payment of the cost of setting such monuments.
6. Within five days after the final setting of all monuments has been completed, the engineer or surveyor shall give written notice to the subdivider, and to the engineering services manager that the final monuments have been set. Upon payment to the engineer or surveyor for setting the final monuments, the subdivider shall present to the city evidence of payment and receipt thereof by the engineer or surveyor. If the subdivider does not present evidence to the city that the engineer or surveyor has been paid for the setting of the final monuments, and if the engineer or surveyor notifies the city that the monuments have been set but payment has not been received from the subdivider, the city shall, within three months from the date of the notification, pay to the engineer or surveyor any amounts so due from any deposit or security furnished in guarantee of monuments. (Ord. 2007-08 § 4 (Exh. A), 2007)