Land Survey Monuments Act

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Land survey monuments act. Generally when a surveyor plats property the required plat monuments are to be in the ground at the time of the recording of the plat or as. Survey monuments flarable standard break off pipe monuments feno drive in monuments top security sectional rod monuments for control survey monuments land survey monument my field bag. It is the finding of the general assembly that there exists a substantial problem of loss and deterioration of land survey monuments with the attendant uncertainty created in titles and transactions of real property in the state of illinois. In fact placing the monuments is near the end of the monumental land surveying process.

That which precedes all others the new american webster handy college dictionary. As a land surveyor in this state or to set reset replace or remove any survey monument on land in which he or she has no legal interest unless he or she has been licensed or specifically exempted from licensing under this chapter. 765 ilcs 220 1 from ch. A monument can be a brass disc drilled into concrete a spike washer set in asphalt an iron pipe buried vertically in the ground an ancient wooden stake a notched stone monument a venerable oak bearing tree even the vestiges of.

Before a land surveyor may place the monuments there are many other steps to take many of which are actually done away from the property in question. The process by which a parcel of land is measured and its boundaries and contents ascertained black s law dictionary fifth edition. It is the finding of the general assembly that there exists a substantial problem of loss and deterioration of land survey monuments with the attendant uncertainty created in titles and transactions of real property. Survey monuments come in all sizes and shapes and can have vastly different physical properties most don t look like the classic usgs brass cap depicted above.

Must be tied by survey to the nearest coordinate control monuments according to the procedures in rules made under section 75 of the land surveyors act. 16 06 public land survey system monuments during the latter portion of the 1800 s the public lands of washington were surveyed and monumented so that settlers could obtain a patent and establish property for private ownership. Beginning with the congressional act of 16 september 1776 and the land ordinance of 1785 a wide variety of congressional acts governed the distribution of federal land in the thirty public land states various acts opened up new territories established the practice of offering land as compensation for military service and extended preemption rights to squatters. The monuments which represented a variety of sectional corners refer to the.

2 if a a survey has been carried out in accordance with subsection 1 b the original monuments have in that way been tied to coordinate control monuments and c a plan of the survey.