{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-real-property-13-307","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Real Property § 13–307","heading":"","body":"(a) The warrant shall recite:\n(1) The name and address of the applicant;\n(2) The date when the application was docketed;\n(3) The nature of the request made in the application; and\n(4) A description of the land to be surveyed, as described in the application.\n(b) The warrant shall direct the surveyor to:\n(1) Within 30 days of receipt of the warrant, acknowledge its receipt in writing to the Commissioner;\n(2) Specify in the acknowledgement a date, time, and place for making the survey, which date may be no earlier than 10 days and no later than six months after the last publication of notice required by § 13-308 of this subtitle;\n(3) Lay out and survey the land as specified in the acknowledgement;\n(4) Prepare an accurate plat and metes-and-bounds description of the land to be surveyed;\n(5) In a resurvey that discloses an error in any previous survey, correct the error;\n(6) Compute the area of any land included within the description and plat; and\n(7) Within six months from the date the notice of warrant was last published, return his certificate of survey on these matters, together with all duplicates required by § 13-310(a)(1) of this subtitle, to the Commissioner.\n(c) The Commissioner shall sign the warrant and affix the seal for land patent proceedings to it.","path":["Article - Real Property"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=grp\u0026section=13-307","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T20:00:38Z","sha256":"a931dfc6cb0021f22ca12101805d7658b0ae79d0d0f55f759d308b2b76c91d18","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-real-property-13-306","next":"us-md/md.-code-real-property-13-308"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}