47-20.1-02. Definitions
Except where the context indicates a different meaning, terms used in this chapter shall be
defined as follows:
1. "Accessory corner" means 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. "Corner", unless otherwise qualified, means a property corner, or a property controlling
corner, or a public land survey corner, or any combination of these.
3. "Monument" means an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a
corner.
4. "Practice of land surveying" has the same meaning as in section 43-19.1-02.
5. "Property controlling corner" means 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.
6. "Property corner" means a geographic point on the surface of the earth, and is on, a
part of, and controls a property line.
7. "Public land survey corner" means any corner actually established and monumented in
an original survey or resurvey used as a basis of legal description for issuing a patent
for land to a private person from the United States government.
8. "Reference monument" means 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.
9. "Registered land surveyor" means a surveyor who is registered to practice land
surveying under chapter 43-19.1 regulating the registration and practice of
professional engineering and land surveyors, or who is authorized under said chapter
to practice land surveying as defined herein.
