Hanford Municipal Code Ch. 16.36 Corrections and Amendments of Recorded Maps

This chapter is enacted pursuant to the authority granted by Section 66469—66472.1 inclusive of the State Subdivision Map Act and as the State Subdivision Map Act may be amended from time to time.

(Prior code § 9-3.1401)

It is the purpose of this chapter to allow a recorded final map to be modified by a certificate of correction or an amending map if the modifications do not impose any additional burden on the present fee owner of the property, and the modifications do not alter any right, title or interest in the real property reflected on the map, and if the map as modified does not create a finding for denial as per the provisions of Section 16.40.040.

(Prior code § 9-3.1402)

After a final map or parcel map is filed in the office of the county recorder, it may be amended by a certificate of correction or an amending map:

A. To correct an error in any course of distance shown thereon;

B. To show any course or distance that was omitted therefrom;

C. To correct an error in the description of the real property shown on the map;

D. To indicate monuments set after the death, disability or retirement from practice of the engineer or surveyor charged with responsibilities for setting monuments;

E. To show the proper location or character of any monument which has been changed in location or character or originally was shown at the wrong location or incorrectly as to its character; or

F. To correct any other type of map error or omission as approved by the city engineer, which does not affect any property right, such errors and omissions may include, but are not limited to, lot numbers, acreage, street names, waiver of access, and identification of adjacent recorded maps.

(Prior code § 9-3.1403)

The amending map or certificate of correction shall be prepared and signed by a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor. An amending map shall conform to the requirements of Section 66434, if a final map, or Section 66445, if a parcel map of the State Subdivision Map Act. The amending map or certificate of correction shall set forth in detail the corrections made and show the names of the present fee owners of the property affected by the correction or omission.

(Prior code § 9-3.1404)

Prior to the amending map or the certificate of correction being recorded, it is to be examined and certified by the city engineer as to being correct and in accordance with the State Subdivision Map Act.

(Prior code § 9-3.1405)

The amending map or certificate of correction certified by the city engineer shall be filed in the office of the county recorder in which the original map was filed. Upon such filing, the county recorder shall index the names of the fee owners and the appropriate tract designation shown on the amending map or certificate of correction in the general index and map index respectively. Thereupon, the original map shall be deemed to have been conclusively so corrected, and thereafter shall impart constructive notice of all such corrections in the same manner as though set forth upon the original map.

(Prior code § 9-3.1406)

In addition to the amendments authorized by Section 16.36.030, after a final map or parcel map is filed in the office of the county recorder, such a recorded map may also be modified by a certificate of correction or an amending map, if after a public hearing the planning commission finds: (1) that there are changes in circumstances which make any or all of the conditions of such a map no longer appropriate or necessary and that the modifications do not impose any additional burden on the present fee owner of the property; and (2) the modifications do not alter any right, title, or interest in the real property reflected on the recorded map; and (3) the map as modified does not create a finding for denial as per the provisions of Section 16.40.040. Any such modification shall be set for public hearing and processed in the same manner as a tentative parcel map as provided by Chapter 16.16.

(Prior code § 9-3.1407)