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Statutes > Utah > Title-17 > Chapter-23 > 17-23-17-517-23-17.5. Corner perpetuation and filing -- Definitions -- Establishment of cornerfile -- Preservation of map records -- Filing fees -- Exemptions.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Accessory to a corner" means any exclusively identifiable physical object whosespatial relationship to the corner is recorded. Accessories may be bearing trees, bearing objects,monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-filled bottles, steel orwooden stakes, or other objects.
(b) "Corner," unless otherwise qualified, means a property corner, a property controllingcorner, a public land survey corner, or any combination of these.
(c) "Geographic coordinates" means mathematical values that designate a position on theearth relative to a given reference system. Coordinates shall be established pursuant to Title 57,Chapter 10, Utah Coordinate System.
(d) "Land surveyor" means a surveyor who is licensed to practice land surveying in thisstate in accordance with Title 58, Chapter 22, Professional Engineers and Land SurveyorsLicensing Act.
(e) "Monument" means an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of acorner.
(f) "Property controlling corner" means a public land survey corner or any propertycorner which does not lie on a property line of the property in question, but which controls thelocation of one or more of the property corners of the property in question.
(g) "Property corner" means a geographic point of known geographic coordinates on thesurface of the earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line.
(h) "Public land survey corner" means any corner actually established and monumented inan original survey or resurvey used as a basis of legal descriptions for issuing a patent for the landto a private person from the United States government.
(i) "Reference monument" means a special monument that does not occupy the samegeographical position as the corner itself, but whose spatial relationship to the corner is recordedand which serves to witness the corner.
(2) (a) Any land surveyor making a boundary survey of lands within this state andutilizing a corner shall, within 90 days, complete, sign, and file with the county surveyor of thecounty where the corner is situated, a written record to be known as a corner file for every publicland survey corner and accessory to the corner which is used as control in any survey by thesurveyor, unless the corner and its accessories are already a matter of record in the county.
(b) Where reasonably possible, the corner file shall include the geographic coordinates ofthe corner.
(c) A surveyor may file a corner record as to any property corner, reference monument,or accessory to a corner.
(d) Corner records may be filed concerning corners used before the effective date of thissection.
(3) The county surveyor of the county containing the corners shall have on record as partof the official files maps of each township within the county, the bearings and lengths of theconnecting lines to government corners, and government corners looked for and not found.
(4) The county surveyor shall make these records available for public inspection at thecounty facilities during normal business hours.
(5) Filing fees for corner records shall be established by the county legislative body
consistent with existing fees for similar services. All corners, monuments, and their accessoriesused prior to the effective date of this section shall be accepted and filed with the county surveyorwithout requiring the payment of the fees.
(6) When a corner record of a public land survey corner is required to be filed under theprovisions of this section and the monument needs to be reconstructed or rehabilitated, the landsurveyor shall contact the county surveyor in accordance with Section 17-23-14.
(7) A corner record may not be filed unless it is signed by a land surveyor.
(8) All filings relative to official cadastral surveys of the Bureau of Land Management ofthe United States of America performed by authorized personnel shall be exempt from filing fees.
Amended by Chapter 241, 2001 General Session
