037-5 Wyo. Code R. §§ 5-4 - Land Surveying Practices
(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.
(c)
Rehabilitation of Original Public Land Survey System Monuments.
(i) Original corner monuments and accessories
recovered in place as described in the original record and deemed to be in good
condition may be left in place.
(ii) Any original monument or evidence of
original monument used for any land surveying purpose which does not comply
with Subparagraph (a) of this section shall be remonumented in order to
perpetuate the position of that corner using a monument which complies with
Section
4(b) of this Chapter, and
documented in accordance with Chapter 7 of these rules.
(d) Subdivision of Sections of the Public
Land Survey System.
(i) For the subdivision
of any section, resurvey tract or lot of the public land survey system, the
Licensee shall be required to recover or reestablish all of the corners
established and monumented during the original government survey or resurvey,
which are relevant to the subdivision. The Licensee shall follow the 'Manual of
Surveying Instruction For the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States,'
2009 edition, for any public land survey corner established, reestablished,
monumented, remonumented, restored, rehabilitated, perpetuated or used as
control in any survey. The words establish or reestablish as used in the Manual
shall mean to determine the true position of a corner and set a monument which
meets the above standards.
(ii)
Monuments shall be set at all controlling corners established for the aliquot
part of the section being subdivided. The center quarter (1/4) corner shall be
recovered or established and monumented. The quarter section sixteenth (1/16)
corners shall be recovered or established and monumented. Monuments of other
aliquot corners may be established where necessary to mark the corners of a
minor subdivision. This shall mean that for any one quarter section subdivided,
all five (5) (or more as appropriate) sixteenth (1/16) corners and the center
quarter (1/4) corner shall be monumented unless impractical.
(iii) Where it is impractical to monument,
witness or reference a corner due to site conditions, denial of access, or
situations beyond the Licensees' control, the Licensee shall document the
particulars of the corner establishment and file the documentation in
accordance with Chapter7 of these rules and/or record a public document
detailing the circumstance.
Notes
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