Easements and Rights of Way: Florida Law and Surveying Practice

Live Webinar

Florida Course Number 11364

(6 continuing education credits)

Instructor:  David Melvin, PLS

Easements and Rights of Way: Florida Law and Surveying Practice is a six-hour live webinar developed for professional surveyors and mappers. The course examines the legal nature of easements and rights-of-way and explains their importance in boundary surveying and the preparation of survey maps and reports. Participants will review common classifications of easements, including affirmative and negative, exclusive and nonexclusive, appurtenant and in-gross, and public and private easements.

The course discusses the creation of easements by written conveyance, implication, necessity, prescription, estoppel, reservation, dedication, eminent domain, and operation of law. It also examines methods by which easements may be terminated and considers questions involving the scope, expansion, misuse, relocation, abandonment, and overburdening of easement rights.

Special emphasis is placed on Florida law and surveying practice. The webinar reviews applicable provisions of the Florida Statutes, Florida’s Standards of Practice for surveyors and mappers, and selected Florida court decisions involving road rights-of-way, common-law and statutory dedication, presumed dedication through governmental maintenance, ownership of land within road rights-of-way, centerline presumptions, vacation and abandonment, and reversionary interests. The course is intended to help surveyors recognize, research, locate, evaluate, and accurately report easement and right-of-way evidence encountered during professional surveying services.

Webinar Access

Webinar access link is provided in a PDF download file immediately at registration.  Click on the link after the start time, 7:30am on the day of the webinar, to sign-in to the waiting room. You will be admitted as soon as possible.  The webinar will begin at 8am (ET).

Webinar Timeline

There is no scheduled lunch break. Ten-minute breaks will occur at the top of each hour.

Attendance Requirements

Attend individually using your own registration. Keep your webcam on with your face clearly visible throughout the webinar (Brief step aways OK). Remain present and attentive. Failure to satisfy attendance verification requirements may result in continuing education credit not being awarded.

Computer Requirements

A desktop or laptop computer, reliable high-speed Internet connection, webcam, speakers or headset, and microphone are recommended. Join by 7:55 AM (ET) to verify equipment.

Course Materials

A PDF course manual will be emailed several days before the webinar. You may print it for note taking and future reference.

Continuing Education Credit

Participants who successfully complete the webinar will receive a Certificate of Completion. Florida Surveyors and Mappers will have credits electronically reported to the Florida Board. One continuing education hour is awarded for each 50 minutes of instruction.

About the Instructor

David A. Melvin, PLS, is a Florida Professional Surveyor and Mapper, graduate of the University of Florida, owner of Land Pro Seminars since 2003, approved continuing education provider for Florida Surveyors and Professional Engineers, and has presented more than 500 continuing education seminars and authored over 25 correspondence courses.

Questions

Land Pro Seminars Phone: (888) 537-0006

Email: dmelvin@landproseminars.com