55-1603 DEFINITIONS.
PROPERTY IN GENERAL
CHAPTER 16
CORNER PERPETUATION AND FILING
55-1603. Definitions. Except where the context indicates a different meaning, terms used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:
(1) "Accessory to a corner" means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. Accessories may be bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes, or other objects.
(2) "Board" means the board of licensure of professional engineers and professional land surveyors.
(3) "Corner," unless otherwise defined, means a property corner, or a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner, or any combination of these.
(4) "Establish" means to determine the position of a corner either physically or mathematically.
(5) "Monument" means a physical structure that occupies the exact position of a corner.
(6) "Professional land surveyor" means any person who is authorized by the laws of this state to practice land surveying.
(7) "Property controlling corner" for a property means a public land survey corner, or any property corner, which does not lie on a property line of the property in question, but which controls the location of one (1) or more of the property corners of the property in question.
(8) "Property corner" means a geographic point on the surface of the earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line.
(9) "Public land survey corner" means any point actually established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey that determines the boundaries of remaining public lands, or public lands patented, represented on an official plat and in the field notes thereof, accepted and approved under authority delegated by congress to the U.S. general land office and the U.S. department of interior, bureau of land management.
(10) "Reference monument" means a special monument that does not occupy the same geographical position as the corner itself, but whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded, and which serves to witness the corner.