Missouri Laws 60.321 – Lost corners, monumentation, procedure — violation deemed misconduct
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 60.321
- Existent corner: a corner whose position can be identified by verifying the evidence of the original monument or its accessories, or by some physical evidence described in the field notes, or located by an acceptable supplemental survey record or some physical evidence thereof, or by testimony. See Missouri Laws 60.301
- Lost corner: a corner whose position cannot be determined, beyond reasonable doubt, either from traces of the original marks or from acceptable evidence or testimony that bears upon the original position. See Missouri Laws 60.301
- Monument: the physical object which marks the corner point determined by the surveying process. See Missouri Laws 60.301
- United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
For the purpose of perpetuating the corners of the United States public land survey, every surveyor who reestablishes a lost corner or restores an existent corner shall monument the corner and shall file an instrument showing such reestablishment or restoration with the Missouri department of agriculture, in accordance with the specifications and procedures adopted by the Missouri department of agriculture. Any surveyor who willfully and knowingly fails to perpetuate corners in accordance with this section is guilty of misconduct in the practice of land surveying.