Certified Copy of Survey; Recordation; Exemptions.

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Sec. 1.

(1) If lands are surveyed into parcels under sections 108 to 109b of the land division act, 1967 PA 288, MCL 560.108 to 560.109b, or any boundary survey where permanent corners are monumented, the professional land surveyor who prepared the survey shall record a certified copy in the office of the register of deeds in the county in which the land is situated.

(2) If a survey is made for the purposes of describing a parcel in a conveyance of title or describing a parcel as created in a lease for a year or more, a certified copy of that survey shall, within 90 days after the delivery of the survey to the professional land surveyor's client, be filed for recording with the register of deeds in the county in which the land is situated. The requirements of this act are in addition to those of the land division act, 1967 PA 288, MCL 560.101 to 560.293. Land platted under that act, or land previously surveyed and recorded and for which no change in boundary description is made from a previously recorded survey, need not be recorded.

History: 1970, Act 132, Eff. Apr. 1, 1971 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 280, Eff. Jan. 1, 1973 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 193, Eff. Sept. 18, 2018


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