Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 24 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Chapter 24.183 - BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS AND PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS › Subchapter 24.183.11 - Uniform Standards for Monumentation, Certificates of Survey, and Final Subdivision Plats › Rule 24.183.1101 - UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR MONUMENTATION

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
(1) The following standards govern the
				monumentation of land surveys:
(a) The terms
				"monument" and "permanent monument" as used in these regulations mean any
				structure of masonry, metal or other permanent, durable material placed in the
				ground, which is exclusively identifiable as a monument to a survey point,
				expressly placed for surveying reference.
(b) All metal monuments must be at least
				one-half inch in diameter and 18 inches in length with a cap not less than one
				inch in diameter marked in a permanent manner with the license number of the
				surveyor in charge of the survey and either the name of the surveyor or the
				company employing the surveyor. Metal monuments marking a public land survey
				corner as described in
				70-22-101,
				MCA, must be at least 24 inches long and 5/8 inch in diameter with an
				appropriately stamped metal cap at least two inches in diameter. A monument
				marking a public land survey corner may also consist of a cap as described in
				this rule set firmly in concrete.
(c) Before a subdivision plat or certificate
				of survey may be filed for record, the surveyor shall confirm the location of
				as many monuments as, in the surveyor's professional judgment, are necessary to
				reasonably assure the perpetuation of any corner or boundary established by the
				survey and to enable other surveyors to reestablish those corners and
				boundaries and retrace the survey. The surveyor shall clearly identify on the
				face of the plat or certificate of survey all monuments pertinent to the
				survey, and the descriptions of these monuments must be sufficient to identify
				the monuments.
(d) The surveyor
				shall set all monuments prior to the filing of a plat or certificate of survey,
				except those monuments that will be disturbed by the installation of
				improvements, or that, because of severe weather conditions, may, in the
				surveyor's judgment, be more appropriately and accurately set after the weather
				has improved. In these two circumstances the surveyor may set monuments after
				the survey document is filed if the surveyor certifies on the survey document
				that the monuments will be set by a specified date. The surveyor shall set
				monuments, the placement of which has been deferred because of severe weather
				conditions, within 240 days of the date on which the survey document was filed.
(i) If during the later monumentation of the
				corners of a plat or certificate of survey that were not monumented before the
				plat or certificate was filed, the surveyor finds that it is necessary to set a
				reference monument to a corner, the surveyor shall prepare and file an amended
				certificate of survey or subdivision plat.
(ii) The failure of the surveyor to set the
				monuments by the date certified on the record of survey will be deemed a
				violation of these rules.
(e) The surveyor shall set monuments at the
				following locations:
(i) at each corner and
				angle point of all lots, blocks, and parcels of land created by the survey;
(ii) at every point of
				intersection of the outer boundary of a subdivision with an existing road
				right-of-way line of record or a road right-of-way line created by the survey;
(iii) at every point of curve,
				point of tangency, point of reversed curve, point of compounded curve, and
				point of intersection on each road right-of-way line created by the survey; and
(iv) at the intersection of a
				boundary line and a meander line. Meander line angle points need not otherwise
				be monumented.
(f) If
				the placement of a required monument at its proper location is physically
				impractical, the surveyor may set a reference or witness monument. This
				monument has the same status as other monuments of record if its location is
				properly shown. If the surveyor relies upon any existing monument in conducting
				a survey, he or she shall confirm the location of the monument and show and
				describe it on the resulting certificate of survey or subdivision
				plat.
(g) If the land surveyor sets
				a monument that is on, is a part of, and controls a property line, then the
				surveyor shall file a certificate of survey which complies with the
				requirements of ARM
				24.183.1104. Alternatively, the
				surveyor may file a corner record in lieu of a certificate of survey pursuant
				to
				70-22-105(2),
				MCA.