Establishment of Fees

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  2. Georgia Code
  3. Local Government
  4. County Surveyor
  5. Establishment of Fees

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  1. The county surveyor shall be allowed to establish a reasonable fee for each of the following acts:
    1. Surveying a town lot and returning a certificate thereof;
    2. Surveying a tract of land;
    3. Making a plat and recording, advertising, and transmitting the same to the Secretary of State's office;
    4. Making a resurvey of land by order of court;
    5. For every other survey, making and certifying a plat thereof and transmitting the same;
    6. Running lines between counties or districts or making new lines, per day, the county surveyor furnishing the chainbearer and provisions;
    7. Making a plat of homestead, affidavit, and return;
    8. Making each additional plat where there is more than one lot; and
    9. Making any other survey he may be called upon or required to perform.

      The fee established by the county surveyor shall be reasonably equivalent to the same fee which would be charged if the survey had been conducted by a private surveyor.

  2. The county surveyor shall be allowed to contract for his services in the same manner as private surveyors, whenever he is called upon or required to make a survey for a private or a corporate benefit or by order of the county governing authority or by order of the court.

(Laws 1792, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 350; Code 1863, § 3626; Code 1868, § 3651; Ga. L. 1870, p. 68, § 1; Code 1873, § 3702; Code 1882, § 3702; Civil Code 1895, § 490; Civil Code 1910, § 608; Code 1933, § 23-1109; Ga. L. 1966, p. 225, §§ 3, 5; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1413, § 1.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Construction.

- County surveyor who is not registered by the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors may not, under any authority, engage in the private practice of land surveying outside of the county in which the surveyor was elected; nor may the surveyor engage in the private practice of land surveying in the surveyor's county of election unless the surveyor was duly elected and holding office on June 30, 1986, and has continued, uninterrupted, to hold such office. 1990 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 90-13.

No conflict with other sections.

- There does not appear to be any conflict between former Code 1933, §§ 23-1109 and 85-1610 (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 36-7-9 and44-4-10), but even if there were one, former Code 1933, § 23-1109 being based upon a more recent statute, would apparently govern. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U71-45.


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