North Dakota Century Code Title 47. Property § 47-20.1-02. Definitions

1. “Accessory corner” means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. Accessories may be bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes or other objects.

2. “Corner”, unless otherwise qualified, means a property corner, or a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner, or any combination of these.

3. “Monument” means an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner.

4. “Practice of land surveying” has the same meaning as in section 43-19.1-02.

5. “Property controlling corner” means a public land survey corner, or any property corner, which does not lie on a property line of the property in question, but which controls the location of one or more of the property corners of the property in question.

6. “Property corner” means a geographic point on the surface of the earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line.

7. “Public land survey corner” means any corner actually established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey used as a basis of legal description for issuing a patent for land to a private person from the United States government.

8. “Reference monument” means 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 which serves to witness the corner.

9. “Registered land surveyor” means a surveyor who is registered to practice land surveying under chapter 43-19.1 regulating the registration and practice of professional engineering and land surveyors, or who is authorized under said chapter to practice land surveying as defined herein.