As used in this article 53, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Accessory means any physical evidence in the vicinity of a survey
monument, the relative location of which is of public record and which is used to
help perpetuate the location of the monument. Accessories shall be construed to
include the accessories recorded in the original survey notes and additional
reference points and dimensions furnished by subsequent land surveyors or
attested to in writing by persons having personal knowledge of the original location
of the monument.
(2) Aliquot corner means any section corner or quarter section corner and
any other corner in the public land survey system created by subdividing land
according to the rules of procedure set forth in section 38-51-103.
(3) Bench mark means any relatively immovable point on the earth whose
elevation above or below an adopted datum is known.
(4) Block means a parcel of land within a platted subdivision bounded on
all sides by streets or avenues, other physical boundaries such as a body of water,
or the exterior boundary of a platted subdivision.
(5) Board means the state board of licensure for architects, professional
engineers, and professional land surveyors, created in section 12-120-103.
(6) Control corner means any land survey corner the position of which
controls the location of the boundaries of a tract or parcel of land.
(6.3) Corner means a point of reference determined by the surveying
process.
(7) Exemption plat or subdivision exemption plat means a subdivision plat
which includes all of the information required by section 38-51-106 and which
depicts a division of land or the creation of an interest in property for which the
board of county commissioners has granted an exemption from subdivision
regulations pursuant to section 30-28-101 (10)(d), C.R.S.
(8) Improvement location certificate means a representation of the
boundaries of a parcel of land and the improvements thereon, prepared pursuant to
section 38-51-108.
(9) Improvement survey plat means a land survey plat as defined in
subsection (12) of this section, resulting from a monumented land survey showing
the location of all structures, visible utilities, fences, hedges, or walls situated on
the described parcel and within five feet of all boundaries of such parcel, any
conflicting boundary evidence or visible encroachments, and all easements,
underground utilities, or tunnels, for which property recorded evidence is available
from the county clerk and recorder, a title insurance company, or other source as
specified on the improvement survey plat.
(10) Irregular parcel means a parcel of land which is not uniquely defined
on a subdivision plat but which is described by any of the following methods:
(a) A metes and bounds description;
(b) A book and page or reception number reference;
(c) Any so-called assessor's tract; or
(d) A description which calls only for the owner's or adjoiner's name.
(11) Land survey means a series of observations and measurements made
pursuant to sections 38-51-103, 38-51-104, and 38-51-105 for the purpose of
locating or restoring any real property boundary.
(12) Land survey plat means a plat that shows the information developed
by a monumented land survey or shows one or more set monuments pursuant to
sections 38-51-104 and 38-51-105 and includes all information required by section
38-51-106.
(12.3) Monument means the object or physical structure that marks the
corner point.
(13) Monumented land survey means a land survey in which monuments are
either found or set pursuant to sections 38-51-103, 38-51-104, and 38-51-105 to
mark the boundaries of a specified parcel of land.
(14) Monument record means a written and illustrated document
describing the physical appearance of a bench mark or survey monument and its
accessories.
(15) Platted subdivision means a group of lots, tracts, or parcels of land
created by recording a map which meets the requirements of section 38-51-106 and
which shows the boundaries of such lots, tracts, or parcels and the original parcel
from which they were created.
(16) Professional land surveyor means a person licensed pursuant to part 3
of article 120 of title 12.
(17) Property description means a written, narrative description of a parcel
of real property or an easement for the purpose of perpetuating location of title.
(18) Public land survey monument means any land boundary monument
established on the ground by a cadastral survey of the United States government
and any mineral survey monument established by a United States mineral surveyor
and made a part of the United States public land records.
(19) Responsible charge means control and direction of surveying work.
(20) Subdivision plat means a map of a platted subdivision recorded for the
purpose of creating land parcels which can be identified uniquely by reference to
such map.