PURPOSE: This rule prescribes the accuracy standards for all property boundary surveys.

1. (1) The surveyor shall select the proper equipment and method necessary to achieve either the required relative position tolerance, required radial survey measurement tolerance or required traverse closure.
2. (2) If the computed relative position tolerance is greater than the required relative position tolerance, the survey shall be considered unacceptable and shall be remeasured.
3. (3) If the computed traverse closure is greater than the required traverse closure, the traverse shall be considered unacceptable and shall be remeasured.
4. (4) When radial survey methods are used, it is the responsibility of the surveyor to provide sufficient checks to insure that the relative positional tolerance of all points is not greater than that required in this regulation.
5. (5) The required relative position tolerance, and traverse closure at sixty-eight percent (68%) confidence level shall be—For urban property: one-tenth of a foot (0.10') or 1:20,000 for distances greater than two thousand feet (2000'); Suburban property: onetenth of a foot (0.10') or 1:10,000 for distances greater than one thousand feet (1000'); Rural property: two-tenths of a foot (0.20') or 1:5,000 for distances greater than one thousand feet (1000').

AUTHORITY: sections 60.510(7) and 60.550, RSMo 1986 and 448.2-109, RSMo Supp. 1988.* Original rule filed May 3, 1994, effective Dec. 30, 1994.

*Original authority: 60.510(7) and 60.550, RSMo 1969 and 448.2-109, RSMo 1983, amended 1988.