19-1432.   Resetting cornerstone; record of proceedings; costs.Upon receipt of notice pursuant to K.S.A. 19-1430, and amendmentsthereto, that a cornerstone or monument projects above the usual grade of aroadbed, the surveyor shall notify the governing body having jurisdiction oversuch 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 oftransportation. If the appropriate governing body determines the cornerstoneormonument needs to be reset, the surveyor shall proceed to reset suchcornerstone or monumentand set at leasttwo witness monuments, in a manner calculated to permanentlypreserve and mark the proper location of the cornerstone ormonument. The surveyor shall record such proceedings, together with asubstantialdescription of the cornerstone or monument, and the witness monuments,with distances and courses to same, in the manner provided by the law ofpermanent surveys. If the governing body determines a cornerstone or monumentwhichprojects above the usual grade of a roadbed needs tobe reset, the cost of resetting cornerstones or monuments on townshiproads shall be paid from township road funds, on county roads fromcounty road funds, state and federal roads from the state highway fund. Thecost of resetting cornerstones or monuments on property ofpersons, firms or corporations the costs shall bepaid by the parties for whom the service is performed.

      Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the resetting ofcornerstones or monuments by any land surveyor during the course of a surveypaid 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.