<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 43-20-2 - Definition of terms. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2065314Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2065314SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2065314CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2065314Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2065314DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2065314Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2065314000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2065314SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2065314SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=43-20-2"><span class="s2065314SENU">43-20-2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2065314SENU">. </span><span class="s2065314CL">Definition of terms.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000000"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">Terms used in this chapter mean:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(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;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    "Board," the Board of Technical Professions;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    "Corner," unless otherwise qualified, a property corner, a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    "Monument," an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(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;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    "Property corner," a geographic point that controls a property line;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(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;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(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;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(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;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal-000001"><span class="s2065314DefaultParagraphFont">(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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2065314000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065314Normal"><span class="s2065314SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2065314SCL-000003"> SL 1967, ch 58, § 3; SL 1982, ch 297, § 5; SL 1990, ch 309, § 4; SL 2019, ch 176, § 2.</span></p></div></body></html>