Schedule

Day 1 | Thursday, February 22nd
  8:00 – 8:30Arrival + Coffee + Casual Conversation    
  8:30 – 9:00Introductions to the Workshop and Each Other  Glantz
  9:00 – 10:00Definition of the Profession & the Laws and Rules of Licensure

ORS 672: Professional Engineers; Land Surveyors; Photogrammetrists; Geologists

OAR 820: Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying [OSBEELS]
10:00 – 10:15BREAK
10:15 – 11:00Methods of Navigating and Interpreting Statutory Laws  Simpson
11:00 – 12:00Property Description & The Oregon Coordinate System

ORS 93.310: Rules for Construing Descriptions of Real Property

ORS 93.312: Oregon Coordinate System  
12:00 – 1:00BREAK FOR LUNCH
  1:00 – 2:45English Common Law System

Navigating a Law Library

Using the State of Oregon Law Library (Online)

Introduction to Case Assignment with examples  
Simpson
  2:45 – 3:00BREAK
  3:00 – 3:30U.S. Public Land Survey System

Including discussion on specific History in Oregon and Donation Land Claims  
Glantz
  3:30 – 4:00Methods of Restoring Lost or Obliterated Corners  
  4:00 – 4:30Subdivision of Sections within the PLSS

ORS 191: United States’ Surveys
Day 2 | Friday, February 23rd
  8:00 – 8:30Arrival + Coffee + Casual Conversation    
  8:30 – 9:00County Surveyor

ORS 209.140-155: Removal/Destruction/
Replacement of PLSS Corners

ORS 209.025: Survey Narrative and Map Requirements  
Glantz
  9:00 – 9:45Case DiscussionsSimpson
  9:45 – 10:00BREAK 
10:00 – 11:00Survey and Platting Laws

ORS 92: Subdivisions and Partitions

ORS 97: Cemeteries

ORS 100: Condominiums  
Glantz
11:00 – 12:00Unwritten Transfers of Ownership – Part 1

ORS 105.620: Suits to Quiet Title and Remove Cloud [Adverse Possession]

ORS 105.705-725: Action to Establish Boundary
Simpson
12:00 – 1:00BREAK FOR LUNCH 
  1:00 – 2:15Case Discussions Continued  Simpson
  2:15 – 2:45Unwritten Transfers of Ownership – Part 2

Acts of Nature of Navigable and Non-Navigable Waterbodies

ORS 274: Submersible and Submerged Lands

ORS 390: State Parks and the Ownership of the Pacific Shore
  2:45 – 3:00BREAK   
  3:00 – 3:30Widths of County Roads & Other Pertinent Statutes for Surveyors

ORS 12: Limitations of Actions of Suits

ORS 94: Real Property Development

ORS 271: Use and Disposition of Public Lands Generally; Easements
Glantz
  3:30 – 4:30Practice Examination 
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