NAC625.790. Preparation of legal description of property.

If a professional land surveyor is called upon to prepare a legal description of real property, the professional land surveyor shall include:

     1. A sufficient caption, body and, where applicable, qualifying clauses;

     2. A clear statement of the relationship between the real property being described and the survey control or the basis of the unique location;

     3. A clear statement explaining the basis of bearings or language which otherwise makes definite the method of direction and orientation for the lines of the property being described and the survey control related thereto;

     4. Full and complete citations to maps, plats, documents and other matters of record, facts of pertinence, which are intended to be incorporated into and made a part of the legal description by reference thereto;

     5. When called out, complete and detailed descriptions of physical monuments, both natural and artificial;

     6. When appropriate, incorporated either directly or by citation, sufficient data to enable a check of mathematical closure for the property being described; and

     7. His or her name, the number of his or her Nevada license and his or her validated seal.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Reg’d Professional Eng’rs & Land Surv., eff. 7-18-88; A 7-10-92)