Title 43 — PROPERTY

It is the purpose of this chapter to protect and perpetuate public land survey corners and information concerning the location of such corners by requiring the systematic establishment of monuments and filing of information concerning the marking of the location of such public la…

The register of deeds of the county in which the corner is located shall charge a recording fee of ten dollars. Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 7 (c); SL 1983, ch 305 , § 1; SL 1989, ch 380 ; SL 2012, ch 51 , § 6.

All filings relative to official cadastral surveys of the Bureau of Land Management of the United States of America performed by authorized personnel shall be exempt from filing fees. Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 11.

The county register of deeds of the county containing the corner shall receive the completed corner record and preserve it in a hardbound book. The books shall be numbered in numerical order and indexed by legal description showing section, township, and range (or addition, block…

The register of deeds shall make these records available for public inspection during all usual office hours. Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 7 (b); SL 1982, ch 297 , § 4.

This chapter may be cited as the "Corner Perpetuation and Filing Act." Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 1.

Terms used in this chapter mean: (1) "Accessory to a corner," any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. The term includes bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-fi…

A surveyor shall complete, sign, and file with the register of deeds of the county where the corner is situated, a written record of corner establishment or restoration to be known as a "corner file" for every public land survey corner and accessory to the corner which is establi…

A surveyor may file such corner record as to any property corner, property controlling corner, reference monument, or accessory to a corner. Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 5.

In every case where a corner record of a public land survey corner is required to be filed under the provisions of this chapter, the surveyor must reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument of such corner, and accessories to such corner, so that the same shall be left by him in suc…

Corner records may be filed concerning corners established, reestablished, or restored before July 1, 1967. Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 10.

The board shall, by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 1-26 , prescribe the method of construction and placement of corner markers or monuments used to identify reference points on plats and the information that is necessary to be included in the corner file. The board shall prescr…

No corner record shall be filed unless the same is signed by a registered surveyor, or, in the case of an agency of the United States government the certificate may be signed by the survey party chief making the survey. Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 9.

No filing shall be of any force or legal effect unless and until filed as provided in this chapter. Source: SL 1967, ch 58 , § 12.