Okla. Stat. tit. 65, § 65-3-118
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Definitions
Official statutory text
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 65. Public Libraries Page 19
As used in this act:
1. "Property corner" means a geographic point on the surface of
the earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line;
2. "Property controlling corner" means a public land survey
corner, or any property corner, which does not lie on a property
line of the property in question, but which controls the location of
one or more of the property corners of the property in question;
3. "Public land survey corner" means any corner actually
established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey used as
a basis of legal description for issuing a patent for the land to a
private person from the United States government;
4. "Accessory to a corner" means any exclusively identifiable
physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is
recorded. Accessories may be bearing trees, bearing objects,
monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-
filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes, or other objects;
5. "Monument" means a physical structure that occupies the
exact position of a corner;
6. "Reference monument" means a special monument that does not
occupy the same geographical position as the corner itself, but
whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded, and which
serves to witness the corner;
7. "Surveyor" means any person who is authorized by the laws of
this state to practice land surveying;
8. "Board" means the State Board of Registration for
Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; and
9. "Division" means the Office of Archives and Records of the
Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
As used in this act:
1. "Property corner" means a geographic point on the surface of
the earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line;
2. "Property controlling corner" means a public land survey
corner, or any property corner, which does not lie on a property
line of the property in question, but which controls the location of
one or more of the property corners of the property in question;
3. "Public land survey corner" means any corner actually
established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey used as
a basis of legal description for issuing a patent for the land to a
private person from the United States government;
4. "Accessory to a corner" means any exclusively identifiable
physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is
recorded. Accessories may be bearing trees, bearing objects,
monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, charcoal-
filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes, or other objects;
5. "Monument" means a physical structure that occupies the
exact position of a corner;
6. "Reference monument" means a special monument that does not
occupy the same geographical position as the corner itself, but
whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded, and which
serves to witness the corner;
7. "Surveyor" means any person who is authorized by the laws of
this state to practice land surveying;
8. "Board" means the State Board of Registration for
Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; and
9. "Division" means the Office of Archives and Records of the
Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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