The purpose of this chapter is to authorize right of entry on land for survey purposes, and to provide a method for preserving evidence of land surveys by filing records of survey and monument records. The provisions of this chapter supplement laws relating to land survey platting and subdivision surveys.
(a) A land surveyor or an employee of a land surveyor may enter public or private land or water in the state only to occupy, locate, relocate, install, or replace survey monuments, to locate boundaries, to determine geodetic positions, and to make surveys and maps. (b) The land surveyor shall give reasonable notice to the […]
After making a survey in conformity with the practice and definition of land surveying, a land surveyor shall record with the district recorder a record of the survey within 90 days if the survey discloses (1) material evidence or physical change that in whole or in part does not appear on a plat of record […]
(a) A land surveyor who in the course of a survey establishes, reestablishes, uses as control, or restores a monument to make it readily identifiable or reasonably durable shall record a monument record, unless the monument and its accessories are substantially as described in a monument record filed or recorded under this chapter or on […]
A record of survey is not required for a survey (1) made by the Bureau of Land Management; (2) when a plat of the survey has been recorded or will be recorded within 18 months after the field survey is completed.
(a) The commissioner shall adopt regulations to implement this chapter. (b) The commissioner shall provide a standard form for a monument record.
(a) The district recorder shall provide a copy of a monument record or a copy of a record of survey to the municipal clerk for the municipality in which the monument or survey is located. (b) The district recorder shall keep a proper index of monument records and records of survey by the survey name, […]
In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of natural resources; (2) “land surveyor” means a professional land surveyor licensed under AS 08.48; (3) “monument” means (A) a United States public land survey monument; (B) an Alaska state land survey primary monument; (C) an exterior primary monument controlling a recorded survey; (D) a geodetic control […]
