19-1432. Resetting cornerstone; record of proceedings; costs.
19-1432
19-1432. Resetting cornerstone; record of proceedings; costs. Upon receipt of notice pursuant to K.S.A. 19-1430, and amendments thereto, that a cornerstone or monument projects above the usual grade of a roadbed, the surveyor shall notify the governing body having jurisdiction over such road. The governing body for township roads shall be the township board. The governing body of county roads shall be the board of county commissioners. The governing body of state and federal roads shall be the Kansas department of transportation. If the appropriate governing body determines the cornerstone or monument needs to be reset, the surveyor shall proceed to reset such cornerstone or monument and set at least two witness monuments, in a manner calculated to permanently preserve and mark the proper location of the cornerstone or monument. The surveyor shall record such proceedings, together with a substantial description of the cornerstone or monument, and the witness monuments, with distances and courses to same, in the manner provided by the law of permanent surveys. If the governing body determines a cornerstone or monument which projects above the usual grade of a roadbed needs to be reset, the cost of resetting cornerstones or monuments on township roads shall be paid from township road funds, on county roads from county road funds, state and federal roads from the state highway fund. The cost of resetting cornerstones or monuments on property of persons, firms or corporations the costs shall be paid by the parties for whom the service is performed.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the resetting of cornerstones or monuments by any land surveyor during the course of a survey paid for by the landowner requesting such survey.
History: L. 1907, ch. 233, § 3; R.S. 1923, 19-1432; L. 1961, ch. 136, § 8; L. 1998, ch. 111, § 2; July 1.