*Tentative Outline: The official Outline will appear in the Course Manual*

The Laws That Effect The Practice Of Surveying and Mapping In Florida

Course Number CEP-012-11

One Day Seminar Outline - 6 PDH

7:30  -  8:00          Registration 

8:00  -  10:00 The Laws of Our Society; Common-Law Systems vs. Civil-Law Systems; How Laws are Established That effect The practice Of Surveying and Mapping; Liability Associated With Violating A Professional Code of Ethics Or Rule Of The Board - Supervision Of Unlicensed Employees; Professional Issues. 

10:00 -  10:15      Break 

10:15 -  12:00      The Law Of Contracts; Contract Formation "Offer, Acceptance, Consideration"; Oral Contracts and Their Pitfalls; Third Party Beneficiary Liability; Damages; Defenses. 

12:00 -  1:00         Lunch 

1:00  -  2:30          Tort Law and The Surveyor and Mapper; Negligence - What It Is and How To Avoid It; Misrepresentation; Standard Of Care; Tort v. Contract Liability, Exculpatory Clauses; Survey Plat Notes; Antitrust Violations; Statute Of Limitations. 

2:30  -  2:45          Break 

2:45  -  3:30          Real Property Law Affecting Surveyors and Mappers; Judicial Direction To The Surveyor and Mapper; Historical Development Of Real Property Concepts; Construing the Legal Description; Steps In the Retracement Survey; Distinguishing among Existent, Obliterated and Lost and What to Do Thereafter; Adverse Possession. 

3:30  -  5:00          Statutes and Administrative Code Section That Effect Surveying and Mapping; Chapter 177, Chapter 472; Detailed Discussion Of Board Rules As Incorporated Into The Florida Administrative Code 61G17; Minimum Technical Standards.  Questions and Answers.