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NEW - ALTA/ACSM Standards: Statement on Copyright

“ALTA and NSPS permit “derivative” versions of the 2011 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys only for company branding/use and for education/training purposes.”

NEW  2011 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys                  Requirements are effective February 23, 2011.

NEW  Summary of Significant Changes from the 2005 Standards to the 2011 Standards

NEW  New Standards with red highlights showing which clauses within those Standards are substanitaily new or are otherwise significantly modified from the 2005 version. 

NEW  2005 Standards with a red bracketed note following each clause identifying where that particular 2005 clause appears iin the new 2011 Standards.

2005 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys
Requirements are effective through February 22, 2011.

2005 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys MS Word
Requirements are effective January 1, 2006.

2005 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys
This version includes strike-outs and underlines in red showing changes from the 1999 version. 

Reconnaissance: More on Lenders' Certificates 
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the September 2007 issue of The American Surveyor

Surveyors Report: More on Relative Positional Accuracy
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the June 2007 issue of The American Surveyor

Is an ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey a "Boundary Survey?" 
This article is by Gary Kent, PLS, Committee Chairperson.

Relative Positional Accuracy in the new 2005 ALTA/ACSM Standards 
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the May/June 2006 issue of The ACSM Bulletin

Lenders Certifications
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the July/August 2006 issue of The ACSM Bulletin

Relative Positional Accuracy
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the July - August 2006 issue of The American Surveyor

ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey for a mobile home park
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the September/October 2006 issue of The ACSM Bulletin

More on Lender’s Certificates 
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the November/December 2006 issue of The ACSM Bulletin

Societies adopt new ALTA/ACSM Standards for Land Title Surveys
This article by Gary Kent appeared in the Winter 2005 issue of The American Surveyor. 

Versions of the ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements prior to the current 2011 standards are shown here FOR REFERENCE ONLY. All pre-2011 versions of the Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys have been superseded by the 2011 Standards.

1999 ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements 

1997 ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements 

1992 ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements

1988 ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements