Event Details

Partnership with the SW Piedmont Chapter of NCSS

Check-in begins at 7:30 am and concludes at 4:30 pm.  Breakfast and Lunch are included.

Topic:

Graveyards by Kris Kline, PLS

Topic Description:

Burial grounds and Church properties pose numerous challenges for surveyors and other land-use professionals. Locating burial sites presents its own challenges, including the extent of graveyards. This course also considers questions regarding the underlying title/estate, relevant state and federal statutes, and access considerations for the descendants and the public.

Instructor:

Kristopher M. Kline, president of 2Point, Inc., became licensed in North Carolina in1991 and is a 1999 graduate of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS) Institute. Kris served for 3 years as Chairman of the NCSS Education Committee. His present business focuses exclusively on boundary and easement disputes.

In 2003, Kris began offering continuing education courses in North Carolina on legal aspects of retracement. Since 2010, his teaching career has expanded to include conferences and seminars nationwide. Kris has presented several keynote addresses for state conventions. In 2020, Kris and his wife, Robyn, assumed administration of Surveyors Educational Seminars, a continuing education program originally developed by Dr. Ben Buckner, and later operated by Donald A. Wilson and his wife Christine.

Kris has published five books, with another in its final stages. Most recently, Kline is the author of the second edition of the Washington State Common Law of Surveys and Property Boundaries, available from the Land Surveyors Association of Washington (LSAW.) He is the author of over 80 technical articles. Written for a national audience and generally focused on various legal aspects of boundary retracement, many of these are now available on his blog at www.2point.net.