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Office of Land Survey & Remonumentation
The Office of Land Survey and Remonumentation is responsible for administration of the statewide program of monumenting and remonumenting the original U.S. government public land survey corners. The office is also responsible for ensuring an orderly and consistent review of the subdivision of land; conducts final review of subdivision plats; and provides staff support to the State Boundary Commission.

2012 State Boundary Commission Committee Meeting Schedule
2012 Remonumentation Rule Committee Meeting Schedule

Subdivisions
The Office of Land Survey and Remonumentation administers the applicable provisions of the Land Division Act, 1967 P.A. 288 in order to ensure the orderly development of subdivisions in the State of Michigan. Staff conducts final reviews of plat maps to ensure compliance with the Act and authorizes final plats to be submitted to the Register of Deeds for proper recordation.

• Data Downloads

• Statewide Search for Subdivision Plats

• Administrative Rules
Subdivisions of Land:

• Part 1. Department of Labor and Economic Growth R 560.101 - 560.135

• Part 2. Department of Transportation R 560.201 - 560.205

• Part 3. Department of Environmental Quality R 560.301 - 560.304

• Part 4. Department of Environmental Quality R 560-401 - 560.428

• References

• Land Division Act Notice PDF icon

• MDEQ Subdivision Floodplain Program

Survey and Remonumentation
The Office of Land Survey and Remonumentation is responsible for the administration of the Survey and Remonumentation Act, 1990 P.A. 345. For the first time since the original government surveyors established and monumented these initial corner positions in Michigan a concerted effort has been made to identify and remark these historic markers. All land ownership in Michigan, both public and private, was originally determined from these public land survey corners which are required to be publicly recorded (see Corner Recordation Act, 1970 PA 74).

• Administrative Rules

• Survey and Remonumentation General Rules - R 54.201 - 54.210

• MCS 83 State Plane Coordinate Information

• MCS 83 Coordinate Checks for Adjacent Networks Excel icon

• Michigan Coordinate Systems, 1964 PA 9

• MCS 83 Data Uploads from Counties PDF icon

• MCS 83 Independent Measurement Checks Excel icon

• MCS 83 NGS Coordinate Checks Excel icon

• MCS 83 Coordinates Report Guidelines PDF icon

• MCS 83 Surveyor's Certification PDF icon

• Miscellaneous

• 2011 Recommended Survey and Remonumentation Grants PDF icon

• 10th Biennial Report to the Legislature PDF icon

• Attorney General Opinions
#6721 Conflict of Interest
#7076 Additional Compensation

• County Grant Administrators & County Surveyors/Representatives PDF icon

• County Remonumentation Data Entry

• County Remonumentation Data Entry - Troubleshooting PDF icon

• County Remonumentation Data Entry-Vista or IE 7 & higher

• Court Cases
Greenview v Pettis, Court of Appeals Docket No. 279109
Morelli v Tudor, Court of Appeals Docket No. 263814
Schmidt v Hepinstall, Court of Appeals Docket No. 285071

• Data Downloads

• Eligible Expense Documentation Requirements and Memo PDF icon

• Information Memorandum Index

• Michigan Case Law Related to Water - 1989 PDF icon

• Peer Group Review Guidelines PDF icon

• Statewide Search for Remonumentation Data

State Boundary Commission
Created in 1968, the State Boundary Commission is responsible for adjudicating most municipal boundary adjustments as a nonpartisan, general neutral, quasi-judicial body. In administering the provisions of the Boundary Commission Act, 1968 P.A. 191 and Administrative Rules, the State Boundary Commission adjudicates all city and village incorporations, all city, village and township consolidations, and certain types of annexations from a township to a city.

The Commission is comprised of three at-large appointees designated by the governor, and four local commissioners who are appointed by the chief probate judge of the county involving a respective petition.

Petitions can only be filed at the business location of the Commission Office, either by mail or in person.

• Active Petitions and Docket Material

• State Boundary Commission Responsibilities and Meeting Schedule

• State Boundary Commission Public Hearings

• Findings of Fact, Final Orders and Local Voting Results

• Findings of Fact on the Rejection of Legal Sufficiency

• Commission Decision Definitions PDF icon

• Criteria for Annexation, Incorporation & Consolidation PDF icon

• Docket Assignment Procedures PDF icon

• Jurisdiction of Boundary Commission PDF icon

• Legal Sufficiency Criteria Checklist PDF icon

• Overview of Boundary Commission Meetings and Actions PDF icon

• Petition Signature Collection Form 2010-2002 PDF icon

• Public Acts and Administrative Rules

• State Boundary Commission Act - 1968 PA 191

• State Boundary Commission Rules R 123.1-123.75

• Home Rule City Act - 1909 PA 279

• Charter Township Act - 1947 PA 359

• Home Rule Village Act - 1909 PA 278

• Intergovernmental Conditional Transfer of Property by Contract - 1984 PA 425

Code Works! Articles

• Title Vesting Authority of Vacated Public Areas Within Recorded Subdivisions PDF icon
(Summer 2011, Page 8)

• Monument Preservation and Construction Project Collaboration PDF icon
(Winter 2011, Page 3)

• Land Division Act Sections 108-109 - Authority, Guidance & Violation PDF icon
(Fall 2010, Page 4)

• Amending a Plat of Record Pursuant to the Land Division Act PDF icon
(Summer 2010, Page 3)

• State Boundary Commission PDF icon
(Spring 2010, Page 5)

• Remonumentation Program Update PDF icon
(Winter 2010, Page 4)

• Review & Approval of Division Resides with Local Unit of Government PDF icon
(Fall 2009, Page 4)

Related Links

• Forms

• U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geodetic Survey


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