                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIMITATION ON USE OF SYSTEMS (§ 1-607)

No coordinates based on the Virginia coordinate systems, purporting to define
the position of a point on a land boundary, shall be presented to be recorded in
any public land records or deed records unless such point is within two
kilometers of a public or private monumented horizontal control station
established in conformity with the standards of accuracy and specifications for
second-order, class II or better geodetic surveying as prepared and published by
the Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee of the Federal Geographic Data
Committee of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Standards and specifications of
the Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee or its successor in force on the date
of such survey shall apply. The publishing of the existing control stations, or
the acceptance with intent to publish the new established control stations, by
the National Ocean Service/National Geodetic Survey constitutes evidence of
adherence to the Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee specifications. The two
kilometers&#8217; limitation may be modified by a duly authorized state agency
to meet local conditions. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be interpreted
as preventing the use of the Virginia coordinate systems in any unrecorded
deeds, maps, or computations.

HISTORY: 1946, p. 168; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 2849(6); Code 1950, § 55-294;
1984, c. 726; 2019, c. 712.