Any person owning or claiming lands divided by a county line and wishing to have the lands surveyed may apply to a licensed professional surveyor appointed by the board of county commissioners of any county in which any part of the land is situate, and, on such application being made, the surveyor is authorized to make a survey, which shall be as valid as though the lands were situate entirely in one county.
History: Laws 1891, ch. 33, § 9; C.L. 1897, § 793; Code 1915, § 1295; C.S. 1929, § 33-4909; 1941 Comp., § 15-3909; 1953 Comp., § 15-41-9; 2011, ch. 56, § 9.
The 2011 amendment, effective December 31, 2012, authorized licensed professional surveyors appointed by a board of county commissioners to survey land divided by a county line.
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.