314.8 - GOVERNMENT MARKERS PRESERVED.

        314.8  GOVERNMENT MARKERS PRESERVED.         1.  If it is necessary in grading a highway to make a cut that      will disturb, or fill that will cover up, a government or other      established corner or land monument, the engineer in charge of the      project shall establish permanent witness corners or monuments, and      make a record of the same, that show the distance and direction the      witness corner is from the corner disturbed or covered up.  When the      construction work is completed the engineer shall permanently      reestablish the corner or monument.         2.  If the duties in subsection 1 are not performed, the agency in      control of the highway on which a project described in subsection 1      has been or is being completed shall pay the costs of restoring the      original position of the established corner or land monument.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [S13, § 1527-s7; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4656; C46, § 309.62;      C50, § 308A.17; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 314.8] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         2002 Acts, ch 1063, §14         Referred to in §542B.2