Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.010
Short title
This chapter may be cited as the Corner Perpetuation and Recording Law.
Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 329 — Perpetuation of Corners
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Provisions
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.020
Declaration of policy
It is the purpose of this chapter to protect and perpetuate public land survey corners and other corners, along with information concerning the location of such corners by requiring the systematic establishment of monuments and recording of information concerning the location of such corners, thereby providing for prop…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.030
Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 329.040 to 329.130, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in such sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.040
“Accessory to a corner” defined
“Accessory to a corner” means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. Accessories to a corner may be bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes or other physical obje…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.050
“Board” defined
“Board” means the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.060
“Corner” defined
“Corner” means a property corner, a property-controlling corner, a public land survey corner or any combination of these.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.070
“Corner record” defined
“Corner record” means a written record of the establishment or restoration of a corner or accessory to a corner.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.080
“Monument” defined
“Monument” means a physical structure that occupies the exact position of a corner.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.090
“Property-controlling corner” defined
“Property-controlling corner” for a property means a public land survey corner or any property corner which does not lie on a property line of the property in question, but which controls the location of one or more of the property corners of such property.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.100
“Property corner” defined
“Property corner” means a geographic point on the surface of the earth which is on and a part of a property line and controls the location of such line.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.110
“Public land survey corner” defined
“Public land survey corner” means any corner actually established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey used as a basis of legal description for issuing a patent for the land to a private person from the United States Government.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.120
“Reference monument” defined
“Reference monument” means a special monument which does not occupy the same geographical position as the corner itself, whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded and which serves to witness the corner.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.130
“Surveyor” defined
“Surveyor” means any person who is licensed pursuant to chapter 625 of NRS to practice land surveying.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.140
Recording of corner record required; exception
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and NRS 329.145, a surveyor shall complete, sign and record or cause to be recorded with the county recorder of the county in which the corner is situated a written record of the establishment or restoration of a corner. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and NR…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.145
Conditions under which surveyor not required to record corner record
A surveyor is not required to record a corner record if: 1. A corner record is recorded with the county recorder and the corner is found as described in the record; and 2. All information required in a corner record pursuant to this chapter is included in: (a) A record of survey recorded in accordance with the provisio…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.150
Authority to record corner record
A surveyor may record any corner record as to any property corner, property-controlling corner, reference monument or accessory to a corner.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.160
Information required for recording corner record prescribed by regulation
The Board shall, by regulation, prescribe the information which is to be included in the corner record and the form in which such corner record is to be presented and recorded.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.170
County recorder to keep records
The county recorder of the county containing the corner shall: 1. Receive the completed corner record and preserve it in a hardbound book. The books must be numbered in numerical order. 2. Make such records available for public inspection during all usual office hours.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.180
Reconstruction or rehabilitation of monument and accessory to corner
Where a corner record of a corner is required to be recorded pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the surveyor must reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument of such corner and the accessories to such corner so that such corner and accessories may be readily located at any time in the future.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.190
Corner records: Signatures
No corner record may be recorded unless it is signed by a professional land surveyor or, in the case of any agency of the United States Government, by the official making the survey, who shall designate his or her official title and the agency for which he or she is employed.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.200
Filing of preexisting corner records
Corner records concerning corners established, re-established or restored may be filed before July 1, 1969.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 329.210
Penalties
Any surveyor who fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter is guilty of gross negligence, incompetency or misconduct in the practice of land surveying as a professional land surveyor and is subject to disciplinary action pursuant to NRS 625.460.