It shall be lawful for any person or persons employed under and by virtue of an act of the Congress of the United States, passed February the tenth, eighteen hundred and seven, and all acts supplemental thereto, at any time hereafter to enter upon lands within this state for the purpose of exploring, surveying, triangulating […]
In case the person or persons employed under the act of Congress aforesaid, or acts supplemental thereto, cannot agree with the owners or possessors of the land so entered upon and used as to the amount of damages done thereto by reason of the removal of fences, cutting of trees, or injury to the crop […]
If any person or persons shall wilfully injure, deface or remove any signal, monument, or building, or any appendage thereto, erected, used or constructed under and by virtue of the act of Congress aforesaid, or any act or acts supplemental thereto, such persons so offending shall severally forfeit and pay the sum of $50 with […]
The Governor shall appoint as director of the survey a geologist of established reputation. At the time of his or her initial appointment, the director must be at least thirty years of age and must be selected with special reference and consideration given to his or her administrative experience and ability and to his or […]
The survey shall have for its objects: (a) An examination of the geological formations of the state, with special reference to their economic products, namely: Building stones and other constructive materials and resources, clays, ores and other mineral substances and fuels, the prevention of their waste, and the utilization of by- products; (b) An examination […]
The director shall cause to be prepared a report to the Legislature before each meeting of the same, showing the progress and condition of the survey, together with such other information as he may deem necessary and useful or as the Legislature may require.
The regular and special reports of the survey, with proper illustrations and maps, shall be printed as the director may direct, and the reports shall be distributed or sold by the director as the interests of the state, the diffusion of practical information relating to the development of the state, and the advancement of science, […]
All materials collected, after having served the purpose of the survey, shall be distributed by the director to the educational institutions in such manner as to be of the greatest advantage to the educational interests of the state. If deemed advisable, all or part of such material may be put on permanent exhibition or otherwise […]
The engineers, surveyors and other persons employed by and acting for said survey, and all such persons employed by and acting for the United States geological survey, or other department of the United States government, having for their purposes the obtainment and diffusion of practical information relating to the resources and development of the state, […]
