A.R.S. tit. 33 ch. 1 — Arizona Revised Statutes Title 33 Chapter 1 — Landmarks And Surveys

A.R.S. § 33-101 33-101 - Petition to establish landmarks 33-101. Petition to establish landmarks A. A majority of freeholders owning land in any township, as farmers or ranchers, may petition the board of supervisors of the county where the lands are located, requesting a survey of the lands of the township to establish permanent landmarks at section and quarter section corners or lost corner monuments on lands previously surveyed by the United States government. B. The board of supervisors shall, within thirty days after receiving the petition, notify the county engineer to provide for survey of the lands described in the petition and place monuments of durable material at each section and quarter section corner. C. The board of supervisors may authorize private funding for the survey if the county cannot fund the survey. A.R.S. § 33-102 33-102 - Minutes or field notes of survey; requirements; recording 33-102. Minutes or field notes of survey; requirements; recording A. The county's land surveyor shall make a certificate of full and correct minutes or field notes of the survey, disclosing the exact bearings and distances from each monument to the monument nearest it on any line in the township, and he shall also take bearings and distances from each monument set to those appropriate natural and artificial objects within a reasonable distance. B. The certificate and minutes or field notes shall be filed with the county recorder of the county where the lands are located, who shall record them without charge. A.R.S. § 33-103 33-103 - Monuments at section and quarter section corners; reestablishment of corners; monument requirements; destruction of monuments; classification 33-103. Monuments at section and quarter section corners; reestablishment of corners; monument requirements; destruction of monuments; classification A. Landmarks or monuments established under the provisions of this article shall be set at the section corners and quarter section corners established by the United States survey. If there is a clerical error or omission in the government field notes or bearings, trees, mounds, fences or other locating evidences specified therein, or if they are destroyed or lost and there is no evidence by which the corners established by the United States survey can be identified, the land surveyor shall reestablish the corners under rules adopted by the United States for the survey of public lands. B. Landmarks or monuments established pursuant to this section shall be presumptively at the section and quarter section corners as originally established by the United States survey. C. The monument shall: 1. Be not less than two and one-half feet in length and constructed of durable material, preferably of metal rod or pipe. 2. Identify on the top of the monument the point of survey by punch mark or scribed cross. 3. Identify on the top of a monument set at section corners the proper numbering of the sections for which the monument forms a landmark. 4. Identify the quarter section for those monuments set at quarter section corners. 5. Bear the Arizona registration number of the land surveyor. 6. Be magnetically detectable. 7. Be placed firmly in the ground, leaving the top flush with the surface or recessed in a hand hole when placed on a public highway, or when not on a public highway set to the best judgment of the land surveyor to perpetuate the corner. D. A person who knowingly or by gross negligence destroys, disfigures, removes or disturbs monuments described in subsection C or other permanent monuments set by the land surveyor which have the land surveyor's or public agency's cap or tag affixed to the monument is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. E. A person acting independently or a person in responsible charge of another person who destroys, disfigures or disturbs monuments described in subsection C or other permanent monuments set by the land surveyor which have the land surveyor's or public agency's cap or tag affixed to the monument shall be civilly liable to the state, political subdivision or any other person for all costs associated with restoration or replacement of any monument destroyed, disfigured, removed or disturbed. The remedies under this subsection are in addition to any penalty which can be imposed under subsection D. A.R.S. § 33-104 33-104 - Right of person making land survey to enter lands; damages for injury to lands 33-104. Right of person making land survey to enter lands; damages for injury to lands A. Any person who is registered as a land surveyor under title 32, chapter 1 or who is an employee of the United States government may enter upon lands within this state to perform necessary work relating to land surveys, and may establish permanent monuments and erect the necessary signals and temporary observatories without committing unnecessary injury. The person making a survey under this section shall make every reasonable effort to give oral or written notice of the survey to the owner of the land before entering the land. B. If the parties interested cannot agree upon the amount of damages caused thereby, either may petition the superior court to assess the damages. C. The person entering lands for a land survey as provided by this section may tender to the injured party damages therefor, and if the damages finally assessed do not exceed the amount tendered, he shall recover costs. Otherwise the injured party shall recover costs. D. Notwithstanding this section, the owner or owner's agent may deny entry to normally restricted or hazardous areas. A.R.S. § 33-105 33-105 - Recording of certain land surveys; contents 33-105. Recording of certain land surveys; contents A. A land surveyor shall file a record of a land survey not later than ninety days after its completion with the county recorder of the county where the land is located if such survey establishes points or lines relating to land boundaries or property lines disclosing: 1. A material discrepancy based on the accuracy requirements of the current survey which, in whole or in part, does not appear on any map or record previously recorded or filed with the county recorder, county engineer, highway division of the department of transportation or the United States bureau of land management. 2. Evidence that, by reasonable analysis, might result in alternate positions of lines or points. B. The record of survey shall be a reproducible map, legibly drawn, printed or reproduced by a process assuring a permanent record as required by section 11-481. C. The record of survey map shall show: 1. All monuments found, set, removed, reset or replaced, the kind, size and location of such monuments and all other data relating to such monuments. 2. Bearing and basis of bearings and length of lines to the nearest one one-hundredth of a foot and ties to witness monuments. Other record data may be shown in chains, varas or other units of measurement as implemented by older surveys. 3. Dates of survey, scale of map and north arrow or other means of orientation. 4. Name or designation of tract or grant in which the survey is located, ties to adjoining tracts or grants and section or sections, township, range and political subdivision of this state. 5. Any other data necessary for the intelligent interpretation of the various items and locations of the points, lines and areas shown. D. The record of survey shall be securely fastened by the county recorder into a separate book provided for that purpose. The county recorder shall keep proper indices of such record of survey by the name of grant, tract, subdivision or cadastral subdivisions by United States bureau of land management or general land office. A.R.S. § 33-106 33-106 - Corner record survey; filing; contents 33-106. Corner record survey; filing; contents A. A land surveyor shall complete, sign and file or cause to be filed with the county recorder of the county in which the corner is situated, a written record of the establishment or restoration of public land corners as established by cadastral surveys of the United States general land office or United States bureau of land management, including those monuments designating boundaries of land grants, military reservations, government and Indian reservations, land patents and mining patents, including also those monuments established as mineral monuments by an authorized United States mineral surveyor. The survey information shall be filed within thirty days after the survey is completed, unless the corner and its accessories are substantially as described in an existing corner record previously filed. B. The corner record shall include the following: 1. A report, by sketch or narration, or both, concerning ties to existing monuments presumed authentic. 2. Acceptable monuments found in a perishable or deteriorated condition, a description of what was found and actions taken for the rehabilitation or perpetuation of the monument by the surveyor making such report. 3. New monuments set in a position occupied by an old monument, a description of the new monument as to material, shape, marking, projection above the surface of the ground, distance buried below the ground surface, disposition of the old monument and related items. 4. The procedure followed, by sketch and narration, in reestablishing the corner reported if no acceptable evidence of the original monument or its location can be found. 5. A description of the monument set to perpetuate the corner as reestablished and reported, indicating any bearing trees or objects noted in the general vicinity of the new monument. 6. The location and nature of all reference monuments or objects which would be useful in the identification, recovery or reestablishment of any monument referred to in such report. 7. Acceptable monuments found with reference monuments, accessories and general surroundings materially differing from the information contained in previous corner records. The conditions observed in the survey which materially differ from the original recordation shall be clearly reported by sketch and narration. C. The county recorder shall keep proper indices of such corner records by the name of grant, tract, subdivision or cadastral subdivisions by United States bureau of land management or general land office. A.R.S. § 33-131 33-131 - Arizona coordinate system, 1983; zones; composition 33-131. Arizona coordinate system, 1983; zones; composition A. The Arizona coordinate system, 1983, is the system of plane coordinates which has been established by the national geodetic survey for defining and stating the positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth in this state. B. The Arizona coordinate system, 1983, contains three zones as follows: 1. The west zone, composed of La Paz, Mohave and Yuma counties. 2. The central zone, composed of Coconino, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz and Yavapai counties. 3. The east zone, composed of Apache, Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee and Navajo counties. C. In any land description in which the Arizona coordinate system, 1983, is utilized the system shall be designated "Arizona coordinate system, 1983, __________ zone", with the name of the appropriate zone inserted. A.R.S. § 33-132 33-132 - Coordinates of system; zone definitions 33-132. Coordinates of system; zone definitions A. The plane coordinates of a point on the earth's surface, to be used in the position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of the system, shall consist of two distances, expressed in feet and decimals of a foot (foot value 0.3048 meter exact). One of these distances, to be known as the "X-coordinate", shall give the position in an east-and-west direction, and the other, to be known as the "Y-coordinate", shall give the position in a north-and-south direction. These coordinates shall depend on and conform to the coordinates on the Arizona coordinate system, 1983, of the horizontal control stations of the national geodetic survey in this state, as these coordinates have been determined by the survey. B. For the purpose of more precisely defining the Arizona coordinate system, the following definitions of the national geodetic survey are adopted: 1. The Arizona coordinate system, 1983, west zone, is a transverse mercator projection of the North American datum, 1983, having a central meridian 113 o 45' 00" west of Greenwich, on which meridian the scale is set one part in fifteen thousand too small. The origin of the coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 113 o 45' 00" west of Greenwich and the parallel of 31 o 00' 00" north latitude. This origin is given the coordinates of "X" equals seven hundred thousand feet and "Y" equals zero feet. 2. The Arizona coordinate system, 1983, central zone, is a transverse mercator projection of the North American datum, 1983, having a central meridian 111 o 55' 00" west of Greenwich, on which meridian the scale is set at one part in ten thousand too small. The origin of the coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 111 o 55' 00" west of Greenwich and the parallel of 31 o 00' 00" north latitude. This origin is given the coordinates of "X" equals seven hundred thousand feet and "Y" equals zero feet. 3. The Arizona coordinate system, 1983, east zone, is a transverse mercator projection of the North American datum, 1983, having a central meridian 110 o 10' 00" west of Greenwich, on which meridian the scale is set at one part in ten thousand too small. The origin of coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 110 o 10' 00" west of Greenwich and the parallel of 31 o 00' 00" north latitude. The origin is given the coordinates of "X" equals seven hundred thousand feet and "Y" equals zero feet. A.R.S. § 33-133 33-133 - Ground markings of system; accuracy specifications; horizontal control stations 33-133. Ground markings of system; accuracy specifications; horizontal control stations A. The position of the Arizona coordinate system shall be marked on the ground by horizontal control stations which have been established in conformity with standards adopted by the federal geodetic control committee for first order, second order class I or second order class II surveys or equivalent standards adopted by successors, at the time the surveys were made and computed on the North American datum, 1983. B. A horizontal control station normally consists of, if practicable, a group of bronze or brass discs imbedded in concrete posts nearly flush with the ground surface or cemented into holes drilled into rock outcrops or ledges in such a configuration that the station is referenced by a subsurface mark in a precise vertical register with the surface mark, two reference marks, similar to the surface mark accurately located by azimuth and horizontal distance in respect to the horizontal control station and not more than one hundred fifty feet distant and an azimuth mark which may be similar to the horizontal control station not less than one thousand feet distant, or optionally, an object not less than three thousand feet distant such as a church spire, water tank, radio or television transmitting antenna, by which azimuth mark subsequent surveys may be accurately oriented. C. Horizontal control stations shall be established, if practicable, in proximity to road intersections, hill or mountain tops and similar locations as an aid in the field searches for the horizontal control stations. A.R.S. § 33-134 33-134 - Tract located in more than one zone; description 33-134. Tract located in more than one zone; description If a tract of land to be defined by a single description extends from one into another of the coordinate zones established by this article, the position of all points on its boundaries may be referred to as either of the two zones, the zone which is used being specifically named in the description. A.R.S. § 33-135 33-135 - Reliance of purchaser or mortgagee not required 33-135. Reliance of purchaser or mortgagee not required Nothing contained in this article requires any purchaser or mortgagee to rely on any land description, any part of which depends exclusively on the Arizona coordinate system, 1983. A.R.S. § 33-136 33-136 - Public lands survey descriptions; conflicts; control 33-136. Public lands survey descriptions; conflicts; control If coordinates based on the Arizona coordinate system, 1983, are used to describe a tract of land which in the same document is also described by reference to a subdivision, line or corner of the United States public land surveys, the description by coordinates shall be construed as supplemental to the basic description of the subdivision, line or corner contained in the official field notes and plat filed of record, and in the event of a conflict the description by reference to the subdivision, line or corner of the United States public land surveys prevails over the description by coordinates. A.R.S. § 33-137 33-137 - Recording, filing, publishing extensions and densifications of the ground marking system 33-137. Recording, filing, publishing extensions and densifications of the ground marking system A. Extensions and densifications of the ground marking system of the Arizona coordinate system, 1983, shall be executed in conformity with the standards and specifications of the federal geodetic control committee for first order, second order class I and second order class II surveys and computed on the North American datum, 1983. B. The results of these surveys shall be published by a competent department of the federal government, such as the national geodetic survey, or a surveyor qualified to practice in this state, in which case the survey results shall bear a certification to the effect that the specifications of the federal geodetic control committee have been followed. C. Extensions and densifications of the ground marking system by first order, second order class I or second order class II methods only shall be used. Such extensions and densifications shall be integrated with previously established horizontal control stations of equal or higher order to form a matrix or network no part of which shall have positional errors exceeding those specified for class II second order. The spacing intervals shall not exceed three miles. D. The results of these surveys are public domain and shall be duly recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where the horizontal control station is situated. A.R.S. § 33-138 33-138 - Recording prerequisite 33-138. Recording prerequisite Coordinates based on the Arizona coordinate system, 1983, shall not be presented to be recorded in any public land records unless the recording document also contains the descriptions of not less than two horizontal control stations of first order, second order class I or second order class II positional accuracy which shall not exceed six miles from the nearest point or line of the land survey.