2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 61 - Professional and Occupational Licenses
Article 23 - Engineering and Surveying
Section 61-23-28 - Reference marks; removal or obliteration; replacement. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)

When it becomes necessary by reason of the construction of public or private works to remove or obliterate any triangulation station, benchmark, corner, monument, stake, witness mark or other reference mark, it shall be the duty of the person in charge of the work to cause to be established by a licensed surveyor one or more permanent reference marks, which shall be plainly marked as witness corners or reference marks as near as practicable to the original mark and to record a map, field notes or both with the county clerk of the county wherein located, showing clearly the position of the marks established with reference to the position of the original mark. The surveys or measurements made to connect the reference marks with the original mark shall be of at least the same order of precision as the original survey.

History: Laws 1987, ch. 336, § 28; 1999, ch. 259, § 30; 2011, ch. 56, § 26.

Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-23-32 NMSA 1978.

Repeals and reenactments. — Laws 1987, ch. 336 repealed former 61-23-28 NMSA 1978, as amended by Laws 1983, ch. 111, § 1, relating to public work, effective June 19, 1987, and enacted a new section.

The 2011 amendment, effective December 31, 2012, removed the county surveyor as a person with whom maps and field notes may be recorded.

The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, substituted "licensed surveyor" for "registered surveyor" in the first sentence.