Just curious.?ÿ What exactly would the charges be??ÿ What was the crime and has anybody successfully (a land surveyor) pressed charges and prevailed having someone pull one of your corners?
I always kick a little dirt over my control points.?ÿ Everyone confuses them for property lines or corners, so it's best just to hide them from sight, and avoid alarming anyone who will remove them, or worse, move them.?ÿ
Just curious.?ÿ What exactly would the charges be??ÿ What was the crime and has anybody successfully (a land surveyor) pressed charges and prevailed having someone pull one of your corners?
I would say it would be hard to fine a landowner for pulling a corner, however this was the landowners boyfriend so maybe fine him for practicing land surveying without a license, and maybe thief or property.?ÿ
But I doubt it is worth the trouble.?ÿ
20 years ago I was in Walton County, Georgia doing some work for a proposed quarry site that at least one adjacent landowner was furious about. I was told to use some 1" rebars 4' long for control points. I had to use a fence post driver to set them and it was brutal hard work. Anyway the next time there I discover every single one of them have been removed. The fella had came out there with his tractor and apparently there is some kind of tractor contraption that grips as you pull up on something and he snatched every single rebar out of the ground.
@Just A. Surveyor
About 45 years ago we did a boundary survey in Gwinnett County.?ÿ It was a wooded site and we had to cut every traverse line.?ÿ We set hubs and tacks for traverse points, did the field work and turned it in to the office.?ÿ A couple of weeks later we went back to set the missing corners.?ÿ ALL of our hubs had been pulled and axles set in their place.?ÿ The owner thought the traverse points were corners (DOH!!!!).?ÿ We had to rerun the traverse but luckily the lines were all cut.
Andy
Andy
Wow! Now that is hardcore for him to pull those.
Set a feno. I broke the axle case on an f250 trying to pull one of those..?ÿ
I removed a 12" Feno once.?ÿ It was a lot of work, it took about 15 minutes and a lot of sweat with a digging bar and shovel.?ÿ I wouldn't even attempt it with a 1-meter Feno - I'd probably just dig down a bit and saw off the top.
boyfriend??ÿ she must be something if he's doing that for her before she even has a ring.
i'd appeal to the guy's decency as a professional- ask him how he'd like it if you came to his job and knocked the d*@k out of his mouth.
The homeowner's policy. Could you make a claim against the neighbor's homeowner policy to recoup damages caused by illegal activity ???ÿ
Just curious.?ÿ What exactly would the charges be??ÿ What was the crime and has anybody successfully (a land surveyor) pressed charges and prevailed having someone pull one of your corners?
In Washington it's spelled out quite well:
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RCW?ÿ58.04.015
Disturbing a survey monument??Penalty??Cost.
Here the penalty for malicious removal of a survey mark is up to six month in jail or a fine of not more than two hundred dollars/
Massachusetts
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Section 94: Boundary monuments and miscellaneous markers; malicious destruction
Section 94. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a monument erected for the purpose of designating the boundaries of a town or of a tract or lot of land, or a tree which has been marked for that purpose, or so breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a milestone, mileboard or guideboard erected upon a public way or railroad, or wilfully, intentionally and without right defaces or alters the inscription on any such stone or board, or wilfully, intentionally and without right mars or defaces a building or signboard, or extinguishes a light or breaks, destroys or removes a lamp, lamp post, railing or post erected on a bridge, sidewalk, public way, court or passage, or wilfully, intentionally and without right defaces or otherwise injures, removes, interferes with or destroys any traffic regulating sign, light, signal, marking or device lawfully erected or placed under public authority on any public way, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars. Any person convicted under the provisions of this section shall, in addition to any imprisonment or fine, make restitution.
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Another favorite from MGL Chapter 266?ÿ
Section 120C. Whenever a land surveyor registered under chapter one hundred and twelve deems it reasonably necessary to enter upon adjoining lands to make surveys of any description included under ''Practice of land surveying'', as defined in section eighty-one D of said chapter one hundred and twelve, for any private person, excluding any public authority, public utility or railroad, the land surveyor or his authorized agents or employees may, after reasonable notice, enter upon lands, waters and premises, not including buildings, in the commonwealth, within a reasonable distance from the property line of the land being surveyed, and such entry shall not be deemed a trespass. Nothing in this act shall relieve a land surveyor of liability for damage caused by entry to adjoining property, by himself or his agents or employees.
