(a) Securing Identifying Markers. Professional land surveyors, and professional engineers and land surveyors engaged in the practice of land surveying, shall obtain and use metallic identifying markers which shall show the licensee's Wyoming License Number, as issued by the Board, prefixed by the letters LS, PLS, or PE & LS, as appropriate.
(b) Monumentation. - (i) All corners establishing real property boundaries shall be monumented with a durable monument, including accessories that are appropriate to the local site conditions. Monuments recovered and accepted during retracement surveys as a real property boundary marker must be evaluated for durability and identification. Those corners for which the monument and accessories are found to be deficient shall be rehabilitated so that each corner is left marked in such a manner as meets the above standards for monumentation. Any such monument that is in imminent danger of being obliterated or lost by natural or man-made surface disturbance shall be witnessed or referenced. The use of wooden or plastic stakes, hubs, posts and caps is unacceptable as permanent monuments. Each survey monument shall include a permanently affixed metallic identifying marker. Except where impracticable because of site conditions, or more restrictive state, county, city or town rules and regulations apply, the licensee shall use, as a minimum, an iron pipe or rod monument not less than twenty-four (24) inches in length and not less than five-eighths (5/8) inch in diameter, or a durable nonferrous monument, of the same dimensions, which has at least one ferromagnetic insert for electronic or magnetic detection.
- (ii) For all public land survey corners which were monumented during the original government surveys or resurveys, which are restored or reestablished, and for the center quarter (1/4) corner and sixteenth (1/16) corners of sections and for the corners or angle points of independent resurvey tracts and lots, the licensee shall use, as the preferred minimum monument, a galvanized iron or aluminum pipe not less than twenty-four (24) inches in length and not less than two (2) inches in diameter with a metallic cap not less than two and one-half (2 ½) inches in diameter securely fastened to the top, or an iron rod not less than twenty-four (24) inches in length and not less than five-eighths (5/8) inch in diameter with a metallic cap not less than two and one-half (2 ½) inches in diameter securely fastened to the top, except where impracticable because of site conditions. All nonferrous monuments shall have at least one ferromagnetic insert for electronic or magnetic detection.
- (iii) Monuments set for any purpose shall be marked, stamped or inscribed in accordance with these rules and shall identify the public land survey corner, property corner, accessory, control point or other point it is intended to monument. Sufficient markings shall be placed upon accessories and control points to avoid confusion with actual corner monuments.
(c) Rehabilitation of Original Public Land Survey System Monuments. - (i) Original corner monuments and accessories recovered in place as described in the original record and deemed to be in good condition may be left in place.
- (ii) Any original monument or evidence of original monument used for any land surveying purpose which does not comply with Subparagraph (a) of this section shall be remonumented in order to perpetuate the position of that corner using a monument which complies with Section 5(b) of this Chapter, and documented in accordance with Chapter 8 of these rules.
(d) Subdivision of Sections of the Public Land Survey System. - (i) For the subdivision of any section, resurvey tract or lot of the public land survey system, the licensee shall be required to recover or reestablish all of the corners established and monumented during the original government survey or resurvey, which are relevant to the subdivision.
The licensee shall follow the "Manual of Surveying Instruction For the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States," 2009 edition, for any public land survey corner established, reestablished, monumented, remonumented, restored, rehabilitated, perpetuated or used as control in any survey. The words establish or reestablish as used in the Manual shall mean to determine the true position of a corner and set a monument which meets the above standards.
- (ii) Monuments shall be set at all controlling corners established for the aliquot part of the section being subdivided. The center quarter (1/4) corner shall be recovered or established and monumented. The quarter section sixteenth (1/16) corners shall be recovered or established and monumented. Monuments of other aliquot corners may be established where necessary to mark the corners of a minor subdivision. This shall mean that for any one quarter section subdivided, all five (5) (or more as appropriate) sixteenth (1/16) corners and the center quarter (1/4) corner shall be monumented unless impractical.
- (iii) Where it is impractical to monument, witness or reference a corner due to site conditions, denial of access, or situations beyond the licensees' control, the licensee shall document the particulars of the corner establishment and file the documentation in accordance with Chapter 7 of these rules and/or record a public document detailing the circumstance.