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2006 South Dakota Code - 43-20-2 — Definition of terms.
43-20-2. Definition of terms. Except where the context indicates a different meaning, terms used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:
(1) A "property corner" is a geographic
point on the surface of the earth, and is on, a part of, and
controls a property line;
(2) 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 for one or more of the property
corners of the property in question;
(3) A "public land survey corner" is any
corner actually established and monumented in an original survey or
resurvey used as a basis of legal description for issuing a patent
for the land to a private person from the United States government
or the State of South Dakota;
(4) A "corner," unless otherwise
qualified, means a property corner, or a property controlling
corner, or a public land survey corner, or any combination of
these;
(5) 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;
(6) A "monument" is an accessory that is
presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner;
(7) 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;
(8) A "survey" is any field operation in
which corners are used to locate streets, roads, utilities,
airports, railroads, buildings, dams, canals, drainage ways, or any
other works as well as property boundaries;
(9) A "registered land surveyor" is a
surveyor who is registered to practice land surveying under Title
36 and has a current certificate for that calendar
year;
(10) The "commission" is the State
Commission of Engineering, Architectural, and Land Surveying
Examiners.
Source: SL 1967, ch 58, § 3; SL 1982, ch 297, § 5; SL 1990, ch 309, § 4.
Source: SL 1967, ch 58, § 3; SL 1982, ch 297, § 5; SL 1990, ch 309, § 4.
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