Acquisition
A landowner has this many days to sign before the condemnation process can begin
What is 90 days?
This method of compensating for damages involves using quotes from local contractors to repair or replace the damaged item
What is cost to cure?
This is the oldest system of land surveying in the United States, based on natural landmarks and artificial markers, leading to often irregular and overlapping property lines.
What is the metes and bounds system?
This type of deed offers no warranties of title but is commonly used to clear up minor defects or to transfer property between family members.
What is a quitclaim deed?
RIDES
Respect, Integrity, Dedication, Excellence, Safety
A legal doctrine protecting governments from lawsuits without their consent, originating from the common-law idea that the sovereign could do no wrong.
What is Sovereign Immunity?
This is the four-part test an appraiser uses to determine the most probable and profitable use of a vacant parcel, considering if it's legally permissible, physically possible, financially feasible, and maximally productive.
What is highest and best use?
Symbol on plan sheets that indicates continuous ownership across boundaries
What is a land hook
This is the name for the type of ownership where two or more people own a property, but if one owner dies, their share automatically passes to the other owner(s), bypassing probate?
What is joint tenancy with right of survivorship?
STIP
What is the State Transportation Improvement Program
This tool enables negotiators to compensate landowners above the appraised value, provided they have proper justification and management approval.
What is an administrative settlement?
An increase in value over time resulting from improved economic conditions and increasing price levels
What is Appreciation?
These two principal meridians are located in Wyoming.
What are the 6th Principal Meridian and the Wind River Meridian
How many counties are in the State of Wyoming
23
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
This is the program that provides financial assistance and advisory services to individuals and businesses who are displaced and must move as a result of a right-of-way project.
What is relocation assistance?
This principle states that land and its improvements must be valued on the same basis
What is the consistent use principle
There are this many square feet in an acre.
What is 43,560
This is a legal action to resolve a dispute over a property's ownership, especially when there's a competing claim or a break in the chain of title
What is quiet title action
USPAP
Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice
USFS issues this document for temporary use purposes
What is a Special Use Permit?
Fill in the blank:
Value = Income/( )
What is Capitalization Rate?
This is the term for the error in a traverse survey where the measured distance and direction don't perfectly return to the starting point
What is a closure error?
Built in 1884 this is the oldest county courthouse in Wyoming that is still in continuous use as it was originally designed.
What is Johnson County Courthouse?
PS&E
What is Plans, Specifications and Estimates