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Larry D. Graham was appointed to the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions as the PE/PS member in July 2012. He is a graduate of Kansas State University with a BS in Civil Engineering (1971)., and has an MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia (1978). Mr. Graham was with the firm of Shafer, Kline & Warren, Inc. from 1971 to 2018. He was a principal stockholder and managed the Infrastructure and Development Division, which included Field Services. His forty-seven years of experience include public and private engineering and surveying of all types. He is licensed as an Engineer in twelve states and as a Land Surveyor in eight states. He is a Certified Federal Surveyor, qualified to perform surveying work for the Federal Bureau of Land Management and the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mr. Graham is the current NSPS EAC Commissioner for ABET and an ABET Program Evaluation Volunteer. He serves on the Exam Preparation Committee for Professional Surveyors for NCEES. Mr. Graham served as president of KSLS in 2005 and 2006. He is currently serving on the board for KSLS and as NSPS Director of Kansas and was Area Six Director for NSPS from 2009 to 2016. He has served on the board of the KSLS Charitable Foundation, and serves on the board of the Public Land Survey System Foundation.  Mr. Graham is the 2019-2020 Kansas State Board of Technical Professions Board Chairman. His current term expires on June 30, 2021.
 

Kansas Supreme Court Cases Pertaining to Surveying
Friday, January 10, 2020,  8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., repeating
Saturday, January 11, 2020, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

This session will discuss various Kansas Supreme Court cases which bear on the practice of surveying in Kansas. The reference text will be SURVEYOR’S GUIDE TO THE SUPREME COURT OF KANSAS, by Brian Portwood, PS, available for download at https://ksls.com/Land-Surveyors-Guide . We will concentrate on the PLSS cases: Parks v Baker (1909), Edwards v Fleming (1911) and Neiman v Davis (1948). In addition to these cases we will explore the peculiarities of KSA 19-1411 on the establishment of center corners and quarter-section corners of sections closing on a parallel or baseline. We will also explore the Kansas Supreme c=Court perspective on adverse possession and KSA 60-503 Adverse Possession.
 
Time permitting we will explore the various limitation on actions statutes contained in KSA Chapter 60 as they relate to the practice of surveying (covered in an article that I wrote several years ago based on a court case in Kansas that I was involved in.)