This law states that a surveyor, who must be qualified to practice land surveying in California, is typically elected like other county officials. However, a county's board of supervisors may decide through an ordinance to appoint the surveyor instead. If appointed, the surveyor will serve at the board's discretion.

If you're running for or being considered for the position of surveyor in a small county with fewer than 20,000 people, the usual qualification requirements for holding a county or district office don't apply to you. This exemption is based on population data from the 1960 census.

In Solano County, the position of county surveyor is not filled through election. Instead, the Director of Transportation can appoint the surveyor if the county's board of supervisors has created an ordinance allowing this. Once appointed, the surveyor works at the discretion of the director.

This law says that a surveyor has to carry out any survey demanded by a court or county board. They must keep an organized record of all surveys, assign numbers to each survey in the order they are completed, and save detailed notes and calculations for each one. The surveyor must also provide a copy of the survey, a clear map (called a plat), and a survey certificate to anyone who asks and pays the required fee.

If you own or claim land that stretches across multiple county lines in California and you want to have it surveyed, you can ask the surveyor from any county where part of your land is located to do the survey. The survey they conduct will be just as legally valid as if your land were all in one county.

If there's a court case involving land that crosses county lines, the court can instruct a surveyor from any of those counties to carry out a land survey.

If needed, a county surveyor must help the State Lands Commission with survey tasks in their county.

If there's a land dispute and a survey is necessary, but the regular surveyor has an interest in the land, the court appoints someone unbiased to carry out the survey.

This impartial surveyor can administer oaths for the survey, and they must file the survey with a sworn statement confirming its accuracy. They receive the usual fee for such surveys.

This law states that a surveyor must make a copy or trace of each map filed with the county recorder, and the person who files the map has to pay for it. The surveyor acts as a deputy recorder for this task. Maps filed by a licensed land surveyor and certain recorded maps are exempt from this requirement.

This law states that the surveyor is responsible for creating or updating all maps for the county, including those for roads and districts. Additionally, the surveyor must prepare tax assessment block books for the county when requested by the assessor.

This law allows the board of supervisors to use county funds to either create or buy maps and block-books if certain conditions are met. These conditions include: the assessor's office lacks these maps, the existing maps are inadequate, or the surveyor's office doesn't have the means to produce them.

This law requires that when assessors’ maps and block-books are being prepared, the surveyor must conduct all the necessary investigations and surveys to ensure the maps are complete and accurate.

This law states that any maps that are created for the county, along with the data used to make them, belong to the county. So, no matter how the maps are produced or what information is used to create them, all of it is considered county property.

The board of supervisors has the authority to sell copies of maps that are used by the assessor, but they cannot be sold for less than their cost.

This law section states that a surveyor is responsible for conducting surveys of county roads and other engineering tasks assigned by the board of supervisors. These surveys must be connected to specific points like legal subdivision corners or notable landmarks. All resulting maps and field notes from these surveys must be filed with the surveyor's office and are considered county property.

When conducting surveys, the directions should be given based on the true north-south line, not magnetic north. Any difference between the magnetic north and true north should be noted on the map along with the survey date.

Whenever a survey that affects state-owned lands, such as school lands, swamp lands, or tidelands, is conducted, the surveyor has 90 days to send a detailed map of the survey to the State Lands Commission. This map should include all necessary details to understand the positions of boundaries and lines. If needed, the commission can also request copies of the surveyor's field notes and will cover the cost of those notes. Additionally, surveyors must provide any required information related to their surveys to the commission.