2025 Winter Webinar
Friday, December 12th from 8 AM - 12:20 PM
4 PHD (Pending)
Schedule
Friday, December 12
- 8:00 - Noon - Rights-Of-Way and Easements, Finding, Locating, Describing with Tommy Brooks
- Noon - 12:20 PM Business Meeting & Votes to approve budget and board
Seminar Description
Rights-Of-Way and Easements, Finding, Locating, Describing
This course will explore the various types of encumbrances that can be placed on real property in the form of rights-of-way or easements. The course will help the surveyor recognize encumbrances both in the written record and by physical evidence on the property. The course will delve into the methods for describing rights-of-way and easements and help the surveyor determine the best method based on the type of right-of-way or easement.
Presenters
Tommy Brooks
Mr. Brooks is a Profession Surveyor with HGA, he is based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He a Professional Surveyor in licensed Alabama and eighteen other states with over thirty-five years of professional experience. From 1986 until 2008 Thomas ran his own surveying firm, Brooks & Brooks, Inc., in Tuscaloosa Alabama, specializing in Corps of Engineers contracts, cell towers, pipelines, and ALTA surveys. Since then, Thomas has held responsibilities for pipeline surveys nationwide and has supervised up to forty-five survey crews, ensuring proper training and quality control. Thomas is a past-president of both the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS - 2001) and the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors (ASPLS - 2013). He served as chair of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services (COFPAES). Currently, Thomas is currently a member of the ALTA/NSPS Standards Committee, the NSPS PAC, and the Scouting Committee. Thomas taught surveying merit badge at three Boy Scout national jamborees and rewrote an edition of the Survey Merit Badge Book. He has served as an expert witness on boundary disputes and condemnation cases. Thomas has presented on various surveying topics, including rights-of-ways and easements, standards, safety and ethics. In his spare time, Thomas and his wife, Jeanine, enjoy traveling having visited all fifty states and over 350 national parks.