Kern County Municipal Code Ch. 18.65 Correction and Amendments of Maps

The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures and requirements for the correction or amendment of final tract or parcel maps.

(Ord. G-6533 § 3 (part), 1998)

After a final tract 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 in any one (1) of the following circumstances:

A. To correct an error in any course or 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 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;

F. To correct any other type of map error or omission as approved by the county surveyor, which does not affect any property right. Errors and omissions may include, but not be limited to, lots and numbers, acreage, street names and identification of adjacent record maps. Error does not include changes in courses or distances from which an error is not ascertainable from the data shown on the final tract or parcel map;

G. To make modifications when there are changes which make any or all of the conditions of the 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 if the modifications do not alter any right, title or interest in the real property reflected on the recorded map. The modification shall be set for public hearing before the planning director. The planning director or the board of supervisors shall confine the hearing to consideration of, and action on, the proposed modification.

(Ord. G-6533 § 3 (part), 1998)

The amending map or certificate of correction shall be prepared by a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor. The form and contents of the amending map shall conform to the requirements of Section 18.45.020 if a final tract map, or Section 18.45.060 if a final parcel map. The 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.

(Ord. G-6533 § 3 (part), 1998)

The amending map or certificate of correction, complete as to final form, shall be submitted to the county surveyor for review and approval. The county surveyor shall examine the amending map or certificate of correction and if the only changes made are those mentioned in Section 18.65.020 above, this fact shall be certified on the amending map or certificate of correction.

(Ord. G-6533 § 3 (part), 1998)

The amending map or certificate of correction certified by the county surveyor 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 subdivision designation shown on the amending map or certificate of correction in the general index and map index respectively. The original map shall be deemed to have been conclusively so corrected and shall impart constructive notice of all the corrections in the same manner as though upon the original map.

(Ord. G-6533 § 3 (part), 1998)