2005 Idaho Code - 55-1603 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  55
                             PROPERTY IN GENERAL
                                  CHAPTER 16
                        CORNER PERPETUATION AND FILING
    55-1603.  DEFINITIONS. Except where the context indicates a different
meaning, terms used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:
    (1)  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.
    (2)  "Adequate evidence of the existence of a land survey monument" means
the visual presence of the monument or existence of a federal general land
office or bureau of land management plat on which the monument appears, or a
recorded corner perpetuation and filing form as provided in this chapter, or a
record of survey filed in accordance with chapter 19, title 55, Idaho Code, on
which the monument appears, or a subdivision plat filed in accordance with
chapter 13, title 50, Idaho Code, on which the monument appears.
    (3)  The "board" is the board of registration of professional engineers
and professional land surveyors.
    (4)  A "corner," unless otherwise defined, means a property corner, or a
property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner, or any
combination of these.
    (5)  "Establish" means to determine the position of a corner either
physically or mathematically.
    (6)  A "monument" is a physical structure that occupies the exact position
of a corner.
    (7)  A "professional land surveyor" means any person who is authorized by
the laws of this state to practice land surveying.
    (8)  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 of one or more of
the property corners of the property in question.
    (9)  A "property corner" is a geographic point on the surface of the
earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line.
    (10) A "public land survey corner" is any point actually established and
monumented in an original survey or resurvey that determines the boundaries of
remaining public lands, or public lands patented, represented on an official
plat and in the field notes thereof, accepted and approved under authority
delegated by congress to the U.S. general land office and the U.S. department
of interior, bureau of land management.
    (11)  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.