Terms used in this chapter mean:

1. (1) "Accessory to a corner," any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. The term includes bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes, or other similar objects;
2. (2) "Board," the Board of Technical Professions;
3. (3) "Corner," unless otherwise qualified, a property corner, a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner;
4. (4) "Monument," an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner;
5. (5) "Property controlling corner," any corner that may or may not lie on a property line, but that controls the location for one or more property corners;
6. (6) "Property corner," a geographic point that controls a property line;
7. (7) "Public land survey corner," any corner 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 state or federal government;
8. (8) "Reference monument," 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 serves to witness the corner;
9. (9) "Survey," 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;
10. (10) "Registered land surveyor," a person who is licensed by the board and is in good standing and legally authorized to practice land surveying in this state.

Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 3; SL 1982, ch 297 , § 5; SL 1990, ch 309 , § 4; SL 2019, ch 176 , § 2.