Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 037 - Engineer, State › Sub-Agency 0001 - Engineers and Land Surveyors, Professional Licensing › Chapter 5 - Practice of Professional Engineering and Professional Land Surveying › Section 5-4 - Land Surveying Practices

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Securing
				Identifying Markers. Professional land surveyors, and professional engineers
				and land surveyors engaged in the practice of land surveying, shall obtain and
				use metallic identifying markers which shall show the Licensee's Wyoming
				License Number, as issued by the Board, prefixed by the letters LS, PLS, or PE
				& LS, as appropriate.
(b)
				Monumentation.
(i) All corners establishing
				real property boundaries shall be monumented with a durable monument, including
				accessories that are appropriate to the local site conditions. Monuments
				recovered and accepted during retracement surveys as a real property boundary
				marker must be evaluated for durability and identification. Those corners for
				which the monument and accessories are found to be deficient shall be
				rehabilitated so that each corner is left marked in such a manner as meets the
				above standards for monumentation. Any such monument that is in imminent danger
				of being obliterated or lost by natural or man-made surface disturbance shall
				be witnessed or referenced. The use of wooden or plastic stakes, hubs, posts
				and caps is unacceptable as permanent monuments. Each survey monument shall
				include a permanently affixed metallic identifying marker. Except where
				impracticable because of site conditions, or more restrictive state, county,
				city or town rules and regulations apply, the Licensee shall use, as a minimum,
				an iron pipe or rod monument not less than twenty-four (24) inches in length
				and not less than five-eighths (5/8) inch in diameter, or a durable nonferrous
				monument, of the same dimensions, which has at least one ferromagnetic insert
				for electronic or magnetic detection.
(ii) For all public land survey corners which
				were monumented during the original government surveys or resurveys, which are
				restored or reestablished, and for the center quarter (1/4) corner and
				sixteenth (1/16) corners of sections and for the corners or angle points of
				independent resurvey tracts and lots, the Licensee shall use, as the preferred
				minimum monument, a galvanized iron or aluminum pipe not less than twenty-four
				(24) inches in length and not less than two (2) inches in diameter with a
				metallic cap not less than two and one-half (2 ') inches in diameter securely
				fastened to the top, or an iron rod not less than twenty-four (24) inches in
				length and not less than five-eighths (5/8) inch in diameter with a metallic
				cap not less than two and one-half (2 ') inches in diameter securely fastened
				to the top, except where impracticable because of site conditions. All
				nonferrous monuments shall have at least one ferromagnetic insert for
				electronic or magnetic detection.
(iii) Monuments set for any purpose shall be
				marked, stamped or inscribed in accordance with these rules and shall identify
				the public land survey corner, property corner, accessory, control point or
				other point it is intended to monument. Sufficient markings shall be placed
				upon accessories and control points to avoid confusion with actual corner
				monuments.