I would like to know what % of states require caps on monuments set. I seem to remember I did this several years ago but would like updated info. Please give the state and yes or no on caps. I was once asked to draft a standard for caps and this is what I came up with.
The top of all survey monuments set shall have affixed a cap, tag or disk of a non-corroding material, stamped or embossed with an inscription that clearly identifies the licensee or corporation responsible for setting the monument. comments.
Louisiana and Miss----no.
WV - yes
PA - no
VA - no
MD & WV - yes
TN Yes
AR Yes
MS No
I cap all of my monuments with either a plastic cap or washer with either my registration number or company name on them.
Florida - Yes
Cap must also identify the individual or company who set it.
UT Yes
MT Yes
WY - yes must be aluminum
In Wyoming all PLSS corner monuments, must be BLM style Brass Cap monuments or BLM style Aluminum monuments, inscribed per the BLM Manual of Instructions. The City of Casper requires all platted subdivision boundary monuments to be brass caps set in concrete and all lot corners be aluminum caps inscribed with the lot number and all other pertinent information pertaining to the corner it represents as well as the L.S. number. This has been required by the City for 40 years or more.
KY-yes..individual Lic number of the person in charge of the work. No company caps.
Illinois no
Iowa yes
For comparison, here's the Iowa Code language
355.6 Monumentation.
1. The surveyor shall confirm the prior establishment of control monuments at each controlling corner on the boundaries of the parcel or tract of land being surveyed. If no control monuments exist, the surveyor shall place the monuments. Control monuments shall be constructed of reasonably permanent material solidly embedded in the ground and capable of being detected by commonly used magnetic or electronic equipment. The surveyor shall affix a cap of reasonably inert material bearing an embossed or stencil cut marking of the Iowa license number of the surveyor to the top of each monument which the surveyor places.
Oregon - Yes
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Typing class 9th grade!
For comparison, here's the Iowa Code language
WYO Real property boundary corners mininum: metallic marker with LS, PLS, or PE&LS No. and date, securely fastened to a 5/8 ins. diam. iron rod, 24 ins. in length.
PLSS corners minimum: 5/8 ins. diam., no less than 24 ins. in length iron rod, 2 1/2" diam. metallic cap securely fastened to the top, marked per the BLM Manual, date and LS,PLS or PE&LS No.
Pablo
WA yes
ID yes
Personally I couldn't imagine setting monuments without my PLS designation on it. Why go through all the effor to set an anonymous piece of steel>
For all the states that don't have a cap or marking requirement how the heck do you know who set the monument? In the states that do not require caps are they also the states that do not require recording of surveys?
Charles,
Do you see a higher survival rate for monuments that are more substantial and more apparent than the typical rebar/cap? Are more property owners aware of their markers?
JBS
poll on monument caps - Texas
TX - yes
Our rule is very similar in language to yours Lamon.
AZ - yes
For comparison, here's the Iowa Code language
Paul:
Below is the statute. I remember at one time that they had changed the PLSS momnumentation to only the BLM style monuments and rebar/caps were no longer acceptable.
(b) For all public land survey corners which were monumented during the original government surveys or resurveys, which are restored or reestablished, and for the center quarter (1/4) corner and sixteenth (1/16) corners of sections and for the corners or angle points of independent resurvey tracts and lots, the registrant shall use, as the preferred minimum monument, a galvanized iron or aluminum pipe not less than twenty-four (24) inches in length and not less than two (2) inches in diameter with a metallic cap not less than two and one-half (2.5) inches in diameter securely fastened to the top, or an iron rod not less than twenty-four (24) inches in length and not less than five-eighths (5/8) inch in diameter with a metallic cap not less than two and one-half (2.5) inches in diameter securely fastened to the top, except where impracticable because of site conditions. All nonferrous monuments shall have at least one ferromagnetic insert for electronic or magnetic detection.
to further expand Arizona requirements:
B. When accepting a found monument of the surveyed property that does not have any
record or physical evidence identifying its creator, then where practicable to do so, the surveyor accepting the monument shall affix his/her registration license number to the existing monument.
we will sometimes affix a brass tag to an existing monument where practical to do so.
it's difficult to stamp a brass cap in a handhole more than 6" below pavement grade - how the heck do you hold a punch down there and swing a hammer to hit it?
(I had a special stamp made with my complete RLS # that is 12" tall to solve that problem).
"B. When accepting a found monument of the surveyed property that does not have any
record or physical evidence identifying its creator, then where practicable to do so, the surveyor accepting the monument shall affix his/her registration license number to the existing monument."
6" below grade in a handhole is not practicable...