Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 13-307 - Contents of warrant(a) The warrant shall recite: (1) The name and address of the applicant;(2) The date when the application was docketed;(3) The nature of the request made in the application; and(4) A description of the land to be surveyed, as described in the application.(b) The warrant shall direct the surveyor to: (1) Within 30 days of receipt of the warrant, acknowledge its receipt in writing to the Commissioner;(2) Specify in the acknowledgement a date, time, and place for making the survey, which date may be no earlier than 10 days and no later than six months after the last publication of notice required by § 13-308 of this subtitle;(3) Lay out and survey the land as specified in the acknowledgement;(4) Prepare an accurate plat and metes-and-bounds description of the land to be surveyed;(5) In a resurvey that discloses an error in any previous survey, correct the error;(6) Compute the area of any land included within the description and plat; and(7) Within six months from the date the notice of warrant was last published, return his certificate of survey on these matters, together with all duplicates required by § 13-310(a)(1) of this subtitle, to the Commissioner.(c) The Commissioner shall sign the warrant and affix the seal for land patent proceedings to it.