037-7 Wyo. Code R. §§ 7-1 - Preparation and Filing of Corner Records

(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, 1/4; 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.

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037-7 Wyo. Code R. §§ 7-1

Amended, Eff. 1/27/2016.