In this chapter


(1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of natural resources;


(2) "land surveyor" means a professional land surveyor licensed under AS 08.48;


(3) "monument" means


(A) a United States public land survey monument;


(B) an Alaska state land survey primary monument;


(C) an exterior primary monument controlling a recorded survey;


(D) a geodetic control monument established by a state or federal agency;


(4) "subdivision" has the meaning given in AS 40.15.900
;


(5) "United States public land survey monument"


(A) means a survey monument established in a cadastral survey by the Bureau of Land Management or its predecessor;


(B) includes a monument in a United States special survey and United States mineral survey that is a part of the public land records of the Bureau of Land Management.