Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 037 - Engineer, State › Sub-Agency 0001 - Engineers and Land Surveyors, Professional Licensing › Chapter 7 - CORNER PERPETUATION AND FILING ACT › Section 7-1 - 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 licensee, 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 licensee,
				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 licensee. Professional Land Surveyors shall file
				Corner Records for section one-quarter, ¼
;
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.
(c) All Corner Records shall be filed within
				ninety (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.
(d) 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 2009 "Manual of
				Instructions for the Survey of Public Lands of the United States";
(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.