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

1. (A) If the computed relative position tolerance is greater than the required relative position tolerance, the survey shall be considered unacceptable and shall be remeasured.
2. (B) If the computed traverse closure is greater than the required traverse closure, the traverse shall be considered unacceptable and shall be remeasured.
3. (C) 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.

4. (2) The required relative position tolerance and traverse closure at sixty-eight percent (68%) confidence level shall be for:

   1. (A) Type Urban Property Accuracy shall be one-tenth (0.10) of a foot or 1:20,000 for distances greater than two thousand feet (2,000') and shall apply to any property that is wholly or partly within the corporate limits of any city, town or village, and any commercial and industrial property, condominium property, town house property, apartments, and other multi-unit developments.
   2. (B) Type Suburban Property Accuracy shall be one-tenth (0.10) of a foot or 1:10,000 for distances greater than one thousand feet (1,000') and shall apply to any property that is not Urban Property, that is or is intended to be primarily used for residential purposes or property lying between residential areas whose value is influenced by the presence of such nearby developed real estate.
   3. (C) Type Rural Property Accuracy shall be two-tenths (0.20) of a foot or 1:5,000 for distances greater than one thousand feet (1,000') and shall apply to all property that is not Urban Property or Suburban Property.

AUTHORITY: sections 60.510(7), 60.550, 448.2-109, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed May 3, 1994, effective Dec. 30, 1994. Amended: Filed March 20, 2003, effective Oct. 30, 2003.

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