Section 43-20-2 - Definition of terms.
43-20-2. Definition of terms. Except where the context indicates a different meaning, terms used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:
(1) A "property corner" is a geographic point on the surface of the earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line;
(2) A "property controlling corner" for a property is 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 for one or more of the property corners of the property in question;
(3) A "public land survey corner" is any corner actually established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey used as a basis of legal description for issuing a patent for the land to a private person from the United States government or the State of South Dakota;
(4) A "corner," unless otherwise qualified, means a property corner, or a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner, or any combination of these;
(5) An "accessory to a corner" is 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;
(6) A "monument" is an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner;
(7) A "reference monument" is 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;
(8) A "survey" is any field operation in which corners are used to locate streets, roads, utilities, airports, railroads, buildings, dams, canals, drainage ways, or any other works as well as property boundaries;
(9) A "registered land surveyor" is a surveyor who is registered to practice land surveying under Title 36 and has a current certificate for that calendar year;
(10) The "commission" is the State Commission of Engineering, Architectural, and Land Surveying Examiners.
Source: SL 1967, ch 58, § 3; SL 1982, ch 297, § 5; SL 1990, ch 309, § 4.