N.D. Cent. Code § 11-20-15
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11-20-15. Section corners - How made - Removal of markers - Penalty
Official statutory text
11-20-15. Section corners - How made - Removal of markers - Penalty
The surveyor, when employed by private landowners as provided in section 11-20-14, shall
sink into the earth at all section and quarter post corners a column of concrete or a cement
block at least two feet [.61 meter] high, twelve inches [304.80 millimeters] square at the base,
and six inches [152.40 millimeters] square at the top. The surveyor shall carefully describe the
same in the records of the surveyor's survey. The surveyor also shall dig pits and shall mark and
record new witness trees wherever possible to do so. Any person who willfully shall cut down,
destroy, deface, or injure any living witness tree, or who shall remove a corner post in any
shape as above established, is guilty of an infraction.
The surveyor, when employed by private landowners as provided in section 11-20-14, shall
sink into the earth at all section and quarter post corners a column of concrete or a cement
block at least two feet [.61 meter] high, twelve inches [304.80 millimeters] square at the base,
and six inches [152.40 millimeters] square at the top. The surveyor shall carefully describe the
same in the records of the surveyor's survey. The surveyor also shall dig pits and shall mark and
record new witness trees wherever possible to do so. Any person who willfully shall cut down,
destroy, deface, or injure any living witness tree, or who shall remove a corner post in any
shape as above established, is guilty of an infraction.
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