Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 037 - Engineer, State › Sub-Agency 0001 - Engineers and Land Surveyors, Professional Licensing › Chapter 8 - CORNER RECORD › Section 8-3 - Preparation and Filing of Corner Records

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Corner Records
				required to be filed under this Chapter shall be prepared upon bond paper, in a
				form prescribed by the Board. This does not preclude the use of a word
				processor or computer generated form that is identical to the format prescribed
				by the Board. The Cross Index Plat may be used as designed by the Board to
				provide the alpha-numeric coordinate for each Corner Record. It is the
				responsibility of the registrant, not the client, to file the Corner Records as
				required.
(b) Corner Records shall
				be filed for all corners of the Public Land Survey System actually established
				and monumented in an original or resurvey the U.S. General Land Office and/or
				Bureau of Land Management including township, section, one-quarter,
				one-sixteenth, one-sixty-fourth, one two-hundred and fifty-sixth, one thousand
				and twenty-fourth, angle point, mile post, meander, witness point, special
				meander, auxiliary meander, homestead entry survey, witness, mineral survey,
				tract (lot), closing, line tree, standard, or other corners which are
				established, perpetuated, or used as control in any survey by a registrant,
				unless the corner and its accessories are substantially as described in an
				existing Corner Record filed in accordance with the provisions of The Act.
				Corner Records may be prepared and filed for other non-public land survey
				monuments as desired by the registrant. Professional Land Surveyors shall file
				Corner Records for section one-quarter, % ;one-sixteenth, 1/16;
				one-sixty-forth, 1/64; one two-hundred and fifty-sixth, 1/256; and one-thousand
				and twenty-forth 1/1024; corners established by them and which were not
				established and monumented in an original government survey or resurveys.
(i) All Corner Records shall be filed within
				90 days. The ninety (90) day time for filing shall begin on the date that the
				corner is recovered, established, reestablished, remonumented, restored,
				rehabilitated, perpetuated, or used as control in any survey.
(a) Corner Records relating to corners of the
				Public Land Survey System shall include the following information:
(i) Date of field work and the date of
				preparation of Corner Record;
(ii)
				The original General Land Office (GLO) and/or Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
				field note record for any lost or obliterated corners of the Public Land Survey
				System reestablished;
(iii)
				Description of the corner and accessory evidence found including, but not
				limited to, material, inscriptions, dimensions;
(iv) Description- including material,
				inscriptions, dimensions, of the monument and accessories-used to perpetuate
				and rehabilitate the original location of the corner. Where appropriate, the
				system of marking monuments shall follow the "Manual of Instructions for the
				Survey of Public Lands," current edition;
(v) Courses and distances to adjacent
				corners, if determined in the survey, may be depicted by a sketch or
				prose;
(vi) Distances and bearings
				to local accessories, if available, in sufficient detail to allow
				reestablishment of the corner monument if it is destroyed. If the monument is
				in a vulnerable location, reference monuments will be set and referenced by
				course and distance.
(vii) The form
				will be signed, sealed and dated;
(viii) Corner Records are to be filed for
				monuments searched for and not found;
(ix) The alpha-numeric coordinate for the
				cross index plat are to be marked in the cross index section of the
				form;
(x) A separate Corner Record
				shall be filed for each corner. A Corner Record shall be filed in each township
				or range for corners on common lines;
(xi) If the corner monument is determined to
				be "obliterated," the evidence used to reestablish the position is to be shown.
				If affidavits are used, a copy of the affidavit should be attached to the
				Corner Record or the reference to the recordation of said affidavits shall be
				indicated upon the Corner Record;
(xii) If the corner monument is determined to
				be "lost", the method, rationale and measurements used for reestablishing the
				monument shall be shown;
(xiii) If
				the state plane coordinates are shown, they must include the origin, horizontal
				datum, vertical datum, zone, scale factor, elevation and elevation factor in
				accordance with
				W.S.
				34-25-101 through
				34-25-107;