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• <br />• <br />• <br />2007 Minnesota Statutes <br />505.174 SURVEYOR'S CERTIFICATE OF OWN PLAT ERROR; CORRECTION. <br />In any case where a land plat or subdivision, or what purports to be a land plat or <br />subdivision, has been executed and filed in the office of the county recorder of the county <br />where the land is situated, which fails to identify or correctly describe the land to be so <br />platted or subdivided, or to show correctly upon its face the tract of land intended or <br />purported to be platted or subdivided thereby or is defective by reason of the plat or <br />subdivision and the description of the land purported to be so platted or subdivided thereby <br />being inconsistent or incorrect, the registered surveyor who prepared such plat or <br />subdivision may execute a certificate stating the nature of the error, omission or defect and <br />stating the correct information to correct such error, supply such omission or cure such <br />defect, referring, by correct book and page, to such plat or subdivision and designating its <br />name, if there is a name. Such certificate shall be dated and signed by such registered <br />surveyor. <br />History: 1955 c 472 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2 <br />505.176 APPROVAL OF CERTIFICATES; FILING AND RECORDING. <br />When the certificate has been approved by the governing body of the area involved and a <br />certificate stating that said plat certificate has been approved by the governing body signed <br />by the clerk of said body is attached to said plat certificate, the county recorder of the <br />county in which the land so platted or subdivided is located shall accept each such <br />certificate for filing and recording in the recorder's office upon payment of a fee therefor <br />commensurate with the length of the certificate. Neither witnesses nor an acknowledgment <br />shall be required on any such certificate, but it shall be signed by the registered surveyor <br />and shall state following the signature that the surveyor is a registered surveyor in the state <br />of Minnesota. The county recorder shall make suitable notations on the record of the plat <br />or subdivision to which such certificate refers to direct the attention of anyone examining <br />such plat or subdivision to the record of such certificate. <br />History: 1955 c 472 s 3; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444 <br />