F.A.C.E. Fundamentals of Code Enforcement Level I
Examination Study Guide: Structured Questions and
Answers for 2025
Complete Examination-Style Questions with Source-Preserved Answers
1. What is Acre?
Answer: A parcel of land measuring 43,560 square feet, or 208.71 feet square.
2. What is Abutting?
Answer: Immediately adjacent, such as a parcel of land or body of water.
3. What is Base Line?
Answer: The imagery East-West line used in the government survey method of land description to
establish the starting point for North and South description.
4. What is Building code?
Answer: A group of ordinances that regulate building construction within a community
5. What is Building line?
Answer: The distance from the boundary line of a property within which no structure may be built; a
setback
6. What is chain?
Answer: And unit of measurement used in land surveying- 66 feet
7. What is Check?
Answer: A measurement of land; a 24 Mile by 24 Mile Square containing 16 townships
8. What is Correction lines?
Answer: Place by surveyors at 24 Mile intervals to compensate for the Earth's curvature in the
government Survey System of the land description
9. What is Cul-de-sac?
Answer: A road ending in a circle
10. What is Deed?
Answer: A written instrument that conveys title to land
11. What is Easement?
Answer: Interest in another land as for right away or access to provide utilities
12. What is Frontage?
Answer: The distance property abuts a particular feature such a road or a river
13. What is Government survey method?
Answer: A system of land description dividing portions of the u.s. into a grid system of numbered
lines north to south and east to west
14. What is Grantee?
Answer: The recipient of title in a Conveyance
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, 15. What is Grantor?
Answer: The conveyor of title in a conveyance
16. What is Land description?
Answer: The description of a parcel of real estate which identifies it has distinguished from other
parcels
17. What is Legal description?
Answer: A unique and legally acceptable method of identifying property
18. What is Location?
Answer: The physical site of a property
19. What is Lot, block and subdivision?
Answer: A legal description method that refers to a recorded map of the subdivision that outlines and
numbers each individual lot
20. What is Maps and plats?
Answer: Surveys of Land showing boundaries dimensions monuments and other appropriate
features
21. What is Meridian?
Answer: Any of the north-south lines six miles apart which established the boundaries of townships
in the government Survey System of land description
22. What is Metes and Bounds description?
Answer: The method of land description that starts at a point of beginning and "walks the
boundaries" of a parcel of Real Estate
23. What is Mile?
Answer: A distance of 5280 feet
24. What is Minimum lot area?
Answer: A zoning or deed requirement of a certain lot size for a specified use of a parcel of Real
Estate
25. What is Monument?
Answer: A natural or constructed feature used as a reference point in property descriptions
26. What is Municipal ordinance?
Answer: Local laws regulating specified activities
27. What is Parcel?
Answer: A lot, also, a specified tract of property
28. What is Plat book?
Answer: A public record containing official plats of subdivisions located in a County. In the past, there
were physical books. Currently, the books often take the form of rolls of microfilm.
29. What is Point of beginning (POB)?
Answer: The starting point of the description of a parcel using the metes and Bounds method of
property description.
30. What is Police power?
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Examination Study Guide: Structured Questions and
Answers for 2025
Complete Examination-Style Questions with Source-Preserved Answers
1. What is Acre?
Answer: A parcel of land measuring 43,560 square feet, or 208.71 feet square.
2. What is Abutting?
Answer: Immediately adjacent, such as a parcel of land or body of water.
3. What is Base Line?
Answer: The imagery East-West line used in the government survey method of land description to
establish the starting point for North and South description.
4. What is Building code?
Answer: A group of ordinances that regulate building construction within a community
5. What is Building line?
Answer: The distance from the boundary line of a property within which no structure may be built; a
setback
6. What is chain?
Answer: And unit of measurement used in land surveying- 66 feet
7. What is Check?
Answer: A measurement of land; a 24 Mile by 24 Mile Square containing 16 townships
8. What is Correction lines?
Answer: Place by surveyors at 24 Mile intervals to compensate for the Earth's curvature in the
government Survey System of the land description
9. What is Cul-de-sac?
Answer: A road ending in a circle
10. What is Deed?
Answer: A written instrument that conveys title to land
11. What is Easement?
Answer: Interest in another land as for right away or access to provide utilities
12. What is Frontage?
Answer: The distance property abuts a particular feature such a road or a river
13. What is Government survey method?
Answer: A system of land description dividing portions of the u.s. into a grid system of numbered
lines north to south and east to west
14. What is Grantee?
Answer: The recipient of title in a Conveyance
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, 15. What is Grantor?
Answer: The conveyor of title in a conveyance
16. What is Land description?
Answer: The description of a parcel of real estate which identifies it has distinguished from other
parcels
17. What is Legal description?
Answer: A unique and legally acceptable method of identifying property
18. What is Location?
Answer: The physical site of a property
19. What is Lot, block and subdivision?
Answer: A legal description method that refers to a recorded map of the subdivision that outlines and
numbers each individual lot
20. What is Maps and plats?
Answer: Surveys of Land showing boundaries dimensions monuments and other appropriate
features
21. What is Meridian?
Answer: Any of the north-south lines six miles apart which established the boundaries of townships
in the government Survey System of land description
22. What is Metes and Bounds description?
Answer: The method of land description that starts at a point of beginning and "walks the
boundaries" of a parcel of Real Estate
23. What is Mile?
Answer: A distance of 5280 feet
24. What is Minimum lot area?
Answer: A zoning or deed requirement of a certain lot size for a specified use of a parcel of Real
Estate
25. What is Monument?
Answer: A natural or constructed feature used as a reference point in property descriptions
26. What is Municipal ordinance?
Answer: Local laws regulating specified activities
27. What is Parcel?
Answer: A lot, also, a specified tract of property
28. What is Plat book?
Answer: A public record containing official plats of subdivisions located in a County. In the past, there
were physical books. Currently, the books often take the form of rolls of microfilm.
29. What is Point of beginning (POB)?
Answer: The starting point of the description of a parcel using the metes and Bounds method of
property description.
30. What is Police power?
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