Nothing in Chapter 4, Article 42 NMSA 1978 shall be construed to empower any licensed professional surveyor appointed by the board of county commissioners to change the established lines or corners of any land owned or possessed by any person, and no private lands shall be surveyed except by the consent of the owner of the land.
History: Laws 1891, ch. 33, § 16; C.L. 1897, § 800; Code 1915, § 1301; C.S. 1929, § 33-4915; 1941 Comp., § 15-3915; 1953 Comp., § 15-41-15; 2011, ch. 56, § 14.
The 2011 amendment, effective December 31, 2012, prohibited a licensed professional surveyor appointed by a board of county commissioners from moving established corners or surveying private land without the consent of the owner.
A county surveyor has no right to ignore a government corner because he fails to find it where he thinks it should be, but may correct that location and reestablish the corner at its proper place. 1915 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 15-1673.
Structure 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.