17-23-1. County surveyor to be elected — Requirement to be licensed land surveyor — Authority to contract with licensed land surveyor if no elected county surveyor — County surveyor duties. (1) (a) The office of the county surveyor in each county shall be filled by election and, except as provided in Subsection (1)(b), the county […]
17-23-12. Additional powers. The county surveyor may: (1) administer oaths or affirmations necessary to legally establish roads and other surveys; (2) take evidence from any person who may have information to prove any point material to a survey or whenever necessary in the discharge of his official duties; and (3) establish procedures and guidelines to […]
17-23-13. Setting monuments. (1) (a) When establishing a section, quarter-section, or center corners, the county surveyor or his designee shall set a monument of durable quality. (b) Wherever the nature of the ground will not allow the setting of a monument at the exact corner as described, then a witness monument shall be set. (2) […]
Effective 5/14/2019 17-23-14. Disturbed corners — County surveyor to be notified — Coordination with certain state agencies. (1) As used in this section: (a) (i) “Construction” means: (A) the preparation of an area for a building or structure, including demolition, site clearance, exploration, drilling, boring, and excavation; and (B) the carrying out of any building, […]
Effective 5/14/2019 17-23-15. Removal, destruction, or defacement of monuments or corners as infraction — Costs. (1) A person may not willfully or negligently remove, destroy, or deface any government survey monument, corner, or witness corner. (2) Any person who violates this section is guilty of an infraction and is additionally responsible for: (a) the costs […]
17-23-16. Resurveys. In the resurvey of lands surveyed under the authority of the United States, the county surveyor or the county surveyor’s designee shall observe the following rules: (1) Section and quarter-section corners, and all other corners established by the government survey, shall stand as the true corner. (2) Missing corners shall be reestablished at […]
Effective 5/4/2022 17-23-17. Map of boundary survey — Procedure for filing — Contents — Marking of monuments — Record of corner changes — Penalties. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Land surveyor” means a surveyor who is licensed to practice land surveying in this state in accordance with Title 58, Chapter 22, Professional Engineers […]
Effective 5/12/2015 17-23-17.5. Corner perpetuation and filing — Definitions — Establishment of corner file — Preservation of map records — Filing fees — Exemptions. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Accessory to a corner” means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. Accessories may be bearing trees, bearing […]
17-23-18. Amendment of survey maps or narratives by affidavit of corrections. (1) Any survey map or narrative filed under the provisions of this chapter may be amended by an affidavit of corrections: (a) to show any courses or distances omitted from the map or narrative; (b) to correct an error in the description of the […]
Effective 5/13/2014 17-23-19. County permitted to establish Public Land Corner Preservation Fund — Use of fund — Fee schedule for filing maps. (1) The county legislative body may establish by ordinance a fund to be known as the Public Land Corner Preservation Fund. Money generated for the fund shall be used only to pay expenses […]
17-23-2. Office furnishings and supplies — Filing and indexing fees — Records remain county property. (1) The county shall furnish an office, furniture, and all stationery and record books necessary for the surveyor’s office. (2) The county legislative body, by ordinance or resolution, may establish the fee to be collected by the county for filing […]
17-23-20. Final plats of local entity boundary actions — County surveyor approval of final plat — Plat requirements. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Approving authority” means the person or body required under applicable statute to submit to the lieutenant governor a notice of an impending boundary action, as defined in Section 67-1a-6.5. (b) […]
17-23-3. Seal. The county surveyor shall have a seal, to be furnished by the county, the impression of which shall contain the following words: “State of Utah, County Surveyor,” together with the name of the county in which the same is to be used. Amended by Chapter 241, 2001 General Session
17-23-5. Maps for county or county officers. (1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), each county surveyor shall: (a) trace, blueprint, or otherwise make all maps necessary for the county or any county officer; and (b) file those maps and all data obtained by the surveyor from other sources in the surveyor’s office. (2) Subsection […]
17-23-7. Survey by direction of court — Compensation. When land, the title to which is in dispute before any court, is divided by a county line, the court making an order of survey may direct the order to the surveyor of any county in which any part of the land is situated. The court order […]
