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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’ 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.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1287371,"text":"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’ limitation may be modified by a duly authorized state agency to meet local conditions. 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1984, chapter 726; in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":345310,"section_number":"1-610","catch_line":"Old Dominion University designated as administrative agency","order_by":null,"url":"\/1-610\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1370299,"object_type":"law","relational_id":345307,"identifier":"1-607","token":"1\/6\/1-607","url":"\/1-607\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/1-607\/","token":"1\/6\/1-607","dublin_core":{"Title":"Limitation on use of systems","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 1-607","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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<\/span>, 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<\/span> to publish the new established control stations, by the National Ocean Service\/National Geodetic Survey constitutes evidence<\/span> of adherence to the Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee specifications. The two kilometers’ 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.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nLIMITATION ON USE OF SYSTEMS (\u00a7 1-607)\n\nNo coordinates based on the Virginia coordinate systems, purporting to define\nthe position of a point on a land boundary, shall be presented to be recorded in\nany public land records or deed records unless such point is within two\nkilometers of a public or private monumented horizontal control station\nestablished in conformity with the standards of accuracy and specifications for\nsecond-order, class II or better geodetic surveying as prepared and published by\nthe Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee of the Federal Geographic Data\nCommittee of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Standards and specifications of\nthe Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee or its successor in force on the date\nof such survey shall apply. The publishing of the existing control stations, or\nthe acceptance with intent to publish the new established control stations, by\nthe National Ocean Service\/National Geodetic Survey constitutes evidence of\nadherence to the Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee specifications. The two\nkilometers’ limitation may be modified by a duly authorized state agency\nto meet local conditions. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be interpreted\nas preventing the use of the Virginia coordinate systems in any unrecorded\ndeeds, maps, or computations.\n\nHISTORY: 1946, p. 168; Michie Suppl. 1946, \u00a7 2849(6); Code 1950, \u00a7 55-294;\n1984, c. 726; 2019, c. 712.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}