{"data":{"id":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-33-29-902","jurisdiction":"us-wy","citation":"Wyo. Stat. § 33-29-902","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a) Except where the context indicates a different meaning, terms used in W.S. 33-29-901 through 33-29-910 shall be defined as follows:\n(i) A \"property corner\" is a geographic point on the surface of the earth, and is on, a part of, and controls a property line;\n(ii) A \"property controlling corner\" for a property is 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 (1) or more of the property corners of the property in question;\n(iii) A \"public land survey corner\" is 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;\n(iv) A \"corner,\" unless otherwise qualified, means a property corner, or a property controlling corner, or a public land survey corner or any combination of these;\n(v) An \"accessory to a corner\" is 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;\n(vi) A \"monument\" is an accessory that is presumed to occupy the exact position of a corner;\n(vii) A \"reference monument\" is 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;\n(viii) A \"professional land surveyor\" is a surveyor who is licensed to practice professional land surveying under W.S. 33-29-201 through 33-29-801, and has a current license for that calendar year;\n(ix) The \"board\" is the Wyoming board of professional engineers and professional land surveyors.","path":["TITLE 33 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS","CHAPTER 29 - SURVEYORS AND ENGINEERS","ARTICLE 9 - CORNER PERPETUATION AND FILING ACT"],"source_url":"https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title33.pdf","current_through":"2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:16:32Z","sha256":"9d681f91cd58dd0a8316fa3abc19924ff9f8f9b3d7cd44bc27c84274872cce9d","source_id":"us-wy","stale":false,"prev":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-33-29-901","next":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-33-29-903"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}