43-19-4. Manner of setting permanent landmarks--Reestablishment of section corners--Certificate of survey.
Such landmarks shall in all cases be set on section corners and quarter posts established by the United States survey, but if there be a clerical error or omission in the government field notes, or the bearing trees, mounds, or other locating evidences specified therein be destroyed or lost, and there be no other reliable evidence by which such corner can be identified, such surveyor shall reestablish such corner under the rules adopted by the general government in the survey of public lands. Such surveyor shall, in all cases, set forth such action in his certificate of the survey.
Source: SL 1890, ch 35, §3; RPolC 1903, §1152; RC 1919, §6142; SDC 1939, §58.1202.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 19 - Township Surveys And Landmarks
Section 43-19-3 - Bond of surveyor contracting to erect permanent landmarks for organized township.
Section 43-19-5 - Minutes of survey--Bearings and distances between monuments--Recording.
Section 43-19-6 - Tax levy for erection of permanent landmarks by organized township.
Section 43-19-11 - Bond of surveyor contracting to erect landmarks in unorganized township.
Section 43-19-12 - Survey for erection of landmarks in unorganized township--Certificate--Recording.
Section 43-19-13 - Levy of taxes for erection of landmarks in unorganized township.
Section 43-19-15 - Landmarks set at originally established section corners--Presumption.
Section 43-19-16 - Change of section corner established by United States survey unauthorized.