When a licensed professional surveyor appointed by the board of county commissioners is called upon to make any survey that is to be used in any court, the surveyor is hereby authorized and required, upon application of either party, to administer an oath or affirmation to any witness who may be brought to prove any corner or line of that survey or any natural or artificial object or mark that may be necessary to identify the same, which testimony shall be reduced to writing and subscribed by the witness and a return made thereof with the return of the surveyor.
History: Laws 1891, ch. 33, § 4; C.L. 1897, § 783; Code 1915, § 1290; C.S. 1929, § 33-4904; 1941 Comp., § 15-3904; 1953 Comp., § 15-41-4; 2011, ch. 56, § 4.
The 2011 amendment, effective December 31, 2012, required that licensed professional surveyors be used to make surveys.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Section 4-42-1 - County surveyor.
Section 4-42-4 - Licensed professional surveyor; office and records.
Section 4-42-6 - Licensed professional surveyor; interference with.
Section 4-42-8 - Survey of lands divided by county line.
Section 4-42-9 - Establishing county line; joint survey.
Section 4-42-10 - Licensed professional surveyor to do all county work.
Section 4-42-11 - Licensed professional surveyor; contracting.
Section 4-42-12 - [Survey books; admissibility in evidence.]
Section 4-42-13 - Licensed professional surveyor; numbering surveys; assessment for taxation.