South Dakota § 43-20-2 Definition of terms.

South Dakota Statutes

§ 43-20-2 — Definition of terms.

South Dakota § 43-20-2

Title 43PROPERTY

Ch. 43-20PERPETUATION OF SURVEY CORNERS

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S.D. Codified Laws § 43-20-2 (2026).

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Terms used in this chapter mean:

(1)"Accessory to a corner," any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. The term includes bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes, or other similar objects;

(2)"Board," the Board of Technical Professions;

(3)"Corner," unless otherwise qualified, a property corner, a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner;

(4)"Monument," an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner;

(5)"Property controlling corner," any corner that may or may not lie on a property line, but that controls the location for one or more property corners;

(6)"Property corner,"

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Terms used in this chapter mean: (1) "Accessory to a corner," any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. The term includes bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes, or other similar objects; (2) "Board," the Board of Technical Professions; (3) "Corner," unless otherwise qualified, a property corner, a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner; (4) "Monument," an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner; (5) "Property controlling corner," any corner that may or may not lie on a property line, but that controls the location for one or more property corners; (6) "Property corner," a geographic point that controls a property line; (7) "Public land survey corner," any corner 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 state or federal government; (8) "Reference monument," a special monument that does not occupy the same geographical position as the corner itself, but whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded and serves to witness the corner; (9) "Survey," any field operation in which corners are used to locate streets, roads, utilities, airports, railroads, buildings, dams, canals, drainage ways, or any other works as well as property boundaries; (10) "Registered land surveyor," a person who is licensed by the board and is in good standing and legally authorized to practice land surveying in this state.