Title 70

(1) A surveyor may file a corner record to any property corner, property controlling corner, reference monument, or accessory to a corner. (2) The filing of a properly completed corner record, documenting survey data used to determine the position of the corner, may be filed in l…

Corner records may be filed concerning corners established, reestablished, or restored before July 1, 1963.

The board shall by regulation provide and prescribe the information which shall be necessary to be included in the corner record, and the board shall prescribe the form in which such corner record shall be presented and filed.

A corner record may not be filed unless the record is signed by a registered surveyor and stamped with the surveyor's seal, or in the case of an agency of the United States government or the state of Montana, the certificate may be signed by the survey party chief making the surv…

(1) The county clerk and recorder of the county containing the corner must receive the completed corner record and preserve it in a hardbound book. The books must be numbered in numerical order as filled. (2) The clerk shall number the forms in numerical order as they are filed. …

If a corner record of a public land survey corner is required to be filed under the provisions of this part, the surveyor shall reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument of the corner and accessories to the corner so that the monument is left by the surveyor in a physical conditio…

(1) A public or private entity or person shall, before engaging in activity that will or is likely to disturb or destroy a monument or the accessories to a monument, require the following activities to be performed by a professional land surveyor, as defined in 37-67-101, or a qu…

(1) The North American datum systems of plane coordinates that have been established by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration/national geodetic survey (formerly the United States coast and geodetic survey) or a successor for defining and stating the positions or loc…

(1) As established for use in the north zone, the Montana coordinate system NAD 27 shall be named and in any land description in which it is used it shall be designated the "Montana coordinate system NAD 27, north zone". (2) As established for use in the central zone, the Montana…

(1) For the Montana coordinate system NAD 27, the plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface used to express the geographic position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of this system must consist of two distances expressed in terms of a United State…

(1) For the purposes of describing the location of any survey station in Montana, it is considered a complete, legal, and satisfactory description of such location to give the position of the survey station on the system of plane coordinates designated in this part. (2) When any …

For the purposes of more precisely defining the Montana coordinate systems NAD 27, NAD 83, and MTPCS, the following description by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration/national geodetic survey (formerly the United States coast and geodetic survey) is adopted: (1) T…

Coordinates based on the Montana coordinate systems purporting to define the position of a point on a land boundary may not be presented to be recorded in any public land records or deed records unless the coordinates have been determined with respect to the national spatial refe…

The use of the term "Montana coordinate system NAD 27 north, central, or south zone", "Montana coordinate system NAD 83", or "Montana plane coordinate system" on any map, report of survey, or other document must be limited to coordinates based on the Montana coordinate systems as…

Whenever coordinates based on the Montana coordinate system are used to describe any tract of land which in the same document is also described by reference to any subdivision, line, or corner of the United States public land surveys, the description by coordinates shall be const…

Nothing contained in this part shall require any purchaser or mortgagee to rely on a description, any part of which depends exclusively upon the Montana coordinate systems.

The Montana coordinate system NAD 27 north, central, and south zone may not be used after July 1, 1993; the Montana coordinate system NAD 83 is the sole system to be used after this date.

The Montana coordinate system NAD 83 may not be used to define the position of a point on a land boundary for any publicly recorded instrument more than 1 year after the date that SPCS2022 is adopted by NGS as an official part of the NSRS. The Montana plane coordinate system as d…