Okla. Stat. tit. 65, § 65-3-118: Definitions

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.