River in National Land Code 1965 and Water Act 1920

I just back from Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan on yesterday and as usual the local people will post me a lot questions while I did the survey. There is a river (Sg. pertam) beside the lot and according to the owner of the land. Last month there was some cleaning activities at the side of the river and somebody want to plant oil palm along this river bank. In fact, the oil palm planting activities has been carried out by the local people for quite some time in this river bank with fencing and now they try to extend the area. Thus, the land owner want to me to verify his boundary before this "illegal" activity occur inside his land. One of the question he asked me is what is the reserve width from river and this question has been anwsered by one of the blogger by the name of AK7377. According to Water Act 1920 under section 14 , the reserve is 50 feet from any river bank but in National Land Code 1965, the provision under section 13 stated that the reserve is 50m from river bank.

Above information are all the sections under National Land Code 1965 related to river.

Premium rate after land conversion in Melaka

My client is asking the premium rate after the land conversion and I found Melaka PTG has setup an useful and helpful e-calculator to the public. Below is how this calculator look like and kindly click calculator to use the program.

Please take note that this program only apply for change of "condition & restrictions in interest" in agriculture land.

Basically the convertion divided into a few categories (land status)

- convert to rubber (RM75 per ha for less than 4 ha, RM124 per ha for less than 4 ha)
-convert to oil palm or koko (RM99 per ha for less than 4 ha, RM149 per ha for less than 4 ha)
-convert to coffee, coconut or tea (RM50 per ha)
-convert to orchard (RM75 per ha)
-convert to paddy (RM37 per ha)
-convert to livestock (RM99 per ha)

Premium for building, please click this calculator .

The premium is based on the market price with the provided formula as above diagram.

How many Bungalow lot I can get from my agriculture land?

This chinese fruit farmer awared that his land has potential to convert into bungalow lot due to high demand of his area even though his land still remain less than 60 years before need to surrender to local authority. This is why one of blogger mentioned that licensed land surveyor like gold craftman. We are able to convert an unvalued agriculture land into golden land by converting the land into housing, bungalow or industry lot. Licensed land surveyor able to make rich people become richer when use this leverage.

Normally the land owner will ask how many bungalow lot he will get from the original lot. Usually, bungalow lot must more than 5000 sq feet and at least 40 feet road access. 1.5 acres should be get about 10 lots but some planner will say about 8 lots due to certain planner laws.

Thus, if you have money. Please do not keep in bank. Invest in property such like this fruit farmer. Let say after converting the land and he sell 1 sq foot RM10 then 1 bungalow lot will be RM50,000. (maybe too cheap....just for calculation)....here has 10 lot...easily half a million. am I right.

Past Year Question for Law Paper in Peninsular Malaysia

Looking for past year question in law paper and below are the past year question collection from year 1984 to 1999.

1. Year 1984-1984 part 1 and 1984 part 2
2. Year 1985-1985 part 1 , 1985 part 2 ,1985 part 3 and 1985 part 4
3. Year 1986-1986 part 1, 1986 part 2, 1986 part 3 and 1986 part 4
4. Year 1987-sorry no available
5. Year 1988-1988 part 1 and 1988 part 2
6. Year 1989-1989 part 1 and 1989 part 2
7. Year 1990-1990 part 1 and 1990 part 2
8. Year 1991-1991 part 1 and 1991 part 2
9. Year 1992-1992 part 1 , 1992 part 2 and 1992 part 3
10. Year 1993-1993 part 1 and 1993 part 2
11. Year 1994-1994 part 1 , 1994 part 2 and 1994 part 3
12. Year 1995-1995 part 1 , 1995 part 2 and 1995 part 3
13. Year 1996-1996 part 1 and 1996 part 2
14. Year 1997-1997 part 1 and 1997 part 2
15. Year 1998-1998 part 1 and 1998 part 2
16. Year 1999-1999 part 1 and 1999 part 2

Regarding the answer, please kindly email or just comment at here and I will try my best to answer it.

Time frame of approval in title survey

This is another story regarding a retired couples from KL and has a piece of land in Melaka. This senior couple must be high educated and know where to find the certified plan in JUPEM even though they named as land resource department.

They came to approach me regarding sub-division his land into bungalow lot where their neighbor lot has been done. I told him that we need a planner to do the sub-division because licensed land surveyor can not submit the application. He said he knew the procedure. This was why they came to me because he wanted licensed land surveyor design the layout and with this layout, he will pass to his lawyer to enable him to sell the lot before sub-division application. This is a smart couple.

Subsequently, they asked me how long the application can be approved. According to my record in melaka is within 2 years and this is the faster at the moment. They disagree with the time frame because somebody told them that the application can be approved within 6 months to 1 year. I do not know how they do it or according to this couple...need "politic link". We never give guarantee or promise to our client because we are no the authority to give the "green light" for the approval. Our duty is follow the rule as requested and wait for approval before proceed the final survey.

Profession as Licensed Land Surveyor

Couple days ago, a customer called me and asked me when I can come to his place for survey his land. This is a normal question from client when we are able to mobilise and start the survey.

The first question I will ask is what type of survey the client want me to carry out either engineering survey, title survey or looking for boundary marks. Difference survey has difference requirement.

This man told me that he wanted to take up his portion from another 2 person from the sharing title. However, he thought that just asked the surveyor pegged the boundary marks on the ground and he is able to get his portion. I understand that there are surveyors doing this kind of service without telling the actual procedure and client being cheated.

The main purpose of this man is to get his own title without sharing with other parties and this is one of the title surveys. In more specific this survey is calling as partition survey. I would like to clarify that only licensed land surveyor are qualify to do this kind survey in legal channel.

Explanation and educate the client is part of land professional duty even though we are no able to get the job. Licensed land surveyor is a profession which given a licensed by government to carry out title survey and until today no others profession can able to disturb licensed land surveyor rice bowl. Thus, sharing and educate to public is vital to enable the public realise the existing of licensed land surveyor in Malaysia.

Lisp program in rotating text in dwg

Nearly 2 weeks I used to complete a contour and as-built survey for a oil palm mill. I took a week for field work and a week for processing plan. Even though I have proceeded the whole data before I came back to Melaka but the whole set of data still need re-proceed to generate contour and editing before submit to client. Here I would to share with those draughtman/woman whom are responsible for edit plan in cad software. Usually, surveyor will collect the data and the processing part will hang over to office. Thus, draughtman/woman need to smart to read the data and diagram before able to do editing in plan. Most of the time, we need to rotate the drawing to suit into the require scale and size of paper. This will cause an orientation including the text especially height (reduce level). We can not select the layer of height and do the orientation because the rotation is not at the particular point. What we want is an orientation on the point itself and here is the lisp program.

How to view your Topcon download data by T-Com

First, on the T-com program as below

Then using GPT icon to download data

ACSII data can be seem as below diagram once downloading down

Once you get the ACSII file then go to conversion as below diagram

After that save the data

just press ok

One diagram will appeal as below

Enter coordinate and angle

You are able to see the data as below

After save as dxf in T-com

then save the data as *.dxf

then you are able to view in cad software.

How to download GPT Topcon data by using T-COM in vista system

Formerly my T-COM program is installed in Windows XP system and easy to download once you detected the com port. However, today most of the computer including laptop are using Windows Vista and I noticed that there are many softwares unable to install.

The latest laptop does not providing com port and only USB port available and this is main problem when I initially install T-COM program into my laptop. Thus you need DriverInstaller to detect your com port when the USB cable being plugged in. If not the windows will show error detection and T-Com program unable to download the data from the instrument.

Once you have installed the DriverInstaller than check the device manager under control panel and you are able to see the serial com port is using.

In this case I need to choose com 5 as my com port when in T-Com program

After that, on the T-com program

I am using GPT then choose  button for download the data.

You need to set above data as in the instrument setting. Please kindly thoroughly check before you able to download the data.

This is how the data looks like after you download from instrument and as *.raw

(note: * is your file name)

If you are using CDS to process the data then you still can follow the instruction as below

Create a folder and a new job name for the project then import data as below diagram

After click import data, you will see below diagram

Please kindly change the fils of type into *.raw because our data in raw

Before you are able to see the data, please select Job-1.

once you get above data then you are able to process the data. Good luck to you.

Understanding of collimation of leveling

I just completed my 5 test early of this fasting month and one of test is leveling. In this test you need to ensure your leveling equipment are well calibrated before go for the leveling task. All the land surveyor has been doing leveling work especially in engineering project where we need to provide TBM for the client. Never over confident of the this small test because there are a lot of experience surveyors fail in this simple task because of understanding of the concept of collimation in leveling. I also nearly fail because of this simple task and just a few millimeter from the expected accuracy. This is why I would like those future candidate to read the article before the exam even you are using digital level because my junior also get bad result in the exam.

This article emphasize on error in leveling which is the main subject we as a land surveyor need to know.

The error can be collimation error , error due to earth curvature or error due to refraction.

During the exam, you will be not giving an undulating or flat area unless the examiner like you very much. Most of the candidates will get a steep area and the further you able to read is within 10-15m only (on average).