April 16
Ethics, Ethical Conduct and Ethical Dilemmas - Surveyors and Engineers
Surveyors often have questions related to their desire to conduct their practice in an ethical manner. Whether related to potential conflicts of interest, complaints about other surveyors’ professional conduct, interactions with clients and agencies, or one of the many other routine challenges, there are statutes and administrative rules (including the Standards of Professional Conduct and even the Minimum Standards of Practice) that provide mandatory guidelines for keeping your practice on the straight and narrow. In this program we will explore many of the ethical and professional conduct requirements, and discuss many of the ethical dilemmas that surveyors may face in their everyday practice.
May 14 & 15
Easements and Rights of Way - Parts 1 & 2
You do not have to take part 1 to benefit from part 2
More info coming soon on the breakdown of parts 1 & 2
This program generates a lot of interest and discussion among the audience because the surveying community deals with easements almost every day, and they are the subject of a tremendous amount of litigation. The program covers all aspects of easements from their creation (both written and unwritten), through interference, maintenance, overburdening, how they differ from licenses, the importance of recordation, reversionary rights, and the many ways in which they can be terminated or extinguished. The program will be offered in two free-standing parts, so persons can take either, or both, and get the applicable credit.
June 11 & 12
Managing your Surveying Business in the 21st Century -
Parts 1 & 2
You do not have to take part 1 to benefit from part 2
More info coming soon on the breakdown of parts 1 & 2
This program is designed to help surveyors navigate the constantly changing climate of today’s economy, technologies and society. The program ranges from a close look at a number of traditional business topics such as financial statements, contracts, metrics and project management to a study of the elements of leadership that make for a healthy workplace, like understanding millennial employee motivations, leading by serving, and listening.
July 9
Safety and Health for Engineers and Surveyors
Survey field crews are routinely exposed to a wide variety of environmental and societal factors that compromise their safety. These can range from diseases such as Lyme disease to poisonous plants like Giant Hogweed, and from confined space issues to construction-related hazards such as working in, on or around excavations and scaffolding. In this program, we will explore a number of the primary safety hazards that field crews encounter and how to recognize them by maintaining a constant awareness of one’s surroundings. We will also review some of the primary safety-related metrics that clients may look at as part of their process of selecting a surveyor, and steps companies and employees can take to help control them. Finally, we will outline a variety of good practices that companies should maintain in order to help their employees get home safely each night.
August 20 & 21
The Surveyor’s Judicial Role - Parts 1 & 2
You do not have to take part 1 to benefit from part 2
More info coming soon on the breakdown of parts 1 & 2
Only two persons can truly resolve a disputed boundary or title problem. Those persons do not include attorneys, title companies or surveyors. And, in a sense, they do not even include judges and juries - at least not of their own volition. This program explores the role that the professional surveyor can, and arguably should, take in helping property owners establish or maintain their common boundary in the location that they were perfectly satisfied with - at least until the surveyor showed up! We will look at the role of the surveyor as related to boundaries, not only from a statutory standpoint, but also as eloquently expressed by renowned Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Cooley in his seminal 1881 treatise "The Judicial Function of Surveyors." As a part of this, we will review the dynamic that exists between matters of title and matters of survey, including a close look at title insurance. We will also review several examples that demonstrate the problem, and offer an alternative to what is often the standard approach by surveyors. We will outline a new approach that has the surveyor helping property owners avoid the expense and angst of unnecessarily litigating boundaries when there has been acquiescence to an accepted line by both owners. The program will be offered in two free-standing parts, so persons can take either, or both, and get the applicable credit.
September 18 & 19
ILLINOIS MANDATORY CLASSES
September 18, 2024
8:00 AM - 11:30 CST
Illinois State Statutes and Rules
(4 hrs)
September 19, 2024
8:00 AM - 10:40 CST
Professional Conduct (2 hrs)
Mandatory Sexual Harassment Prevention (1 hr)
September 24 & 25
Advanced Legal Description-Writing - Parts 1 & 2
You do not have to take part 1 to benefit from part 2
More info coming soon on the breakdown of parts 1 & 2
The most important reason for the licensure of the Professional Surveyor is the protection of the public as it relates to boundaries. Boundary retracement is based on a proper interpretation of the intentions of the parties rooted in the legal description contained in the conveyancing document. And a property description is in many, if not most, cases, the direct product of an original boundary survey. Because of this inseparable relationship, it is critical when a description is prepared that it unambiguously express the grantor’s and the surveyor’s intentions. Those intentions can be easily made vague, doubtful, and uncertain by imprecise, inappropriate and confusing language. In this program, we will explore the tenants of good description-writing, outline the do’s and don’t’s of writing a description, the construction of a good description, what constitutes a legally ‘sufficient’ description, how to unambiguously express what controls and what does not, and special description-writing problems.
October 1
Boundary Law for Field Technicians
The objective of this program is to outline the historical and legal roots of boundary law in order to put into context the all-important role of evidence-gathering that field technicians perform as an essential part of the process of determining boundary locations. The program will cover an introduction to the United States Public Land Survey System, the land tenure system in the United States, the two types of property conveyances, the two types of boundary surveys, and the primary legal principles that underlie the retracement of boundaries.
Each Zoom Meeting is 3 hours of credit.
Registration Fee: $99 per person
9:00 AM - 11:40 AM (EST)
***INDIANA SURVEYORS***
All zoom meetings are mandatory except for Managing your surveyor business which is elective
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