(a)Whenever the location of any monument which marks the
corner of any tract or tracts of land is in dispute between the
owners of the adjoining lands, the monument shall be established
as follows:
(i)The county surveyor of the county in which the
corner is located or any registered land surveyor employed by
one of the landowners shall immediately give notice in writing
to all parties interested in the establishment of the corner,
giving at least thirty (30) days notice and naming a day when he
will make the necessary surveys to establish or restore the
corner. If written notice cannot be made upon the owners or
their agents because of nonresidence, then the notice shall be
published once each week for four (4) consecutive weeks in a
newspaper published in the county, or if there is no n
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(a) Whenever the location of any monument which marks the
corner of any tract or tracts of land is in dispute between the
owners of the adjoining lands, the monument shall be established
as follows:
(i) The county surveyor of the county in which the
corner is located or any registered land surveyor employed by
one of the landowners shall immediately give notice in writing
to all parties interested in the establishment of the corner,
giving at least thirty (30) days notice and naming a day when he
will make the necessary surveys to establish or restore the
corner. If written notice cannot be made upon the owners or
their agents because of nonresidence, then the notice shall be
published once each week for four (4) consecutive weeks in a
newspaper published in the county, or if there is no newspaper
published in the county then in a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest such county;
(ii) After the proper notice has been given the
county surveyor or land surveyor shall on the day named in the
notice proceed to reestablish or restore the corner after having
determined by careful surveys and investigations that the
original corner cannot be recovered or identified. He shall
proceed in accordance with the surveying rules contained in the
circular "Restoration of lost or obliterated corners" and the
"manual of instructions for the survey of public lands", issued
by the general land office of the United States government. He
shall firmly plant a suitable monument at the corner point or
points so determined. He shall mark the same for the proper
sections or tracts to which they refer and shall add a personal
mark so the origin of the monument can be traced. He shall
accurately take and note courses and distances referred to in
the true meridian, and from the reestablished or restored points
he shall record the bearing to one or more prominent objects of
a permanent nature if any are in the vicinity;
(iii) He shall make a map or plat of the survey and
record a copy of it together with a copy of the field notes,
applications for survey, notice to and names of the interested
parties and all other pertinent papers in the office of the
county surveyor and county clerk in the county in which the land
is located. He shall file a copy of the same papers in the
public survey office, department of the interior, Cheyenne,
Wyoming. The monument or monuments reestablished or restored
shall be held to mark the original corner or corners and shall
have the legal force and effect as stated in the original record
of the survey;
(iv) Any registered land surveyor rendering service
under this section is entitled to fees and other incident
expense to be collected equally from all interested parties.