Land Survey Monuments Act

Sections covered

• 765 ILCS 220/0.01Short title
• 765 ILCS 220/1It is the finding of the General Assembly that there exists a substantial problem of loss and deterioration of land survey monuments with the attendant uncertainty created in titles and transactions of real property in the State of Illinois
• 765 ILCS 220/10No monument record need be recorded when a monument record exists and the monument is found as described in the existing record
• 765 ILCS 220/11Any land surveyor, or any person, including the responsible official of any agency of state, county, or local government who shall willfully and knowingly violate any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class "A" misdemeanor
• 765 ILCS 220/2It is the purpose of this Act to establish a program of monumentation and preservation and restoration of existing monuments in order to protect and preserve these important land survey monuments
• 765 ILCS 220/3Definitions
• 765 ILCS 220/3.01"Examining Committee" means the examining committee established in Section 3 of "An Act to afford protection to the public by prescribing and regulating the practice of Land Surveying by registration and to repeal an Act therein named"
• 765 ILCS 220/3.02"Monument Record" means a written and illustrated document describing the physical appearance of a survey monument and its accessories
• 765 ILCS 220/3.03"Public land survey monument" means any land boundary monument or position thereof established on the ground by a cadastral survey of the United States Government and made part of United States public land records
• 765 ILCS 220/3.04"Accessory" means any physical evidence in the vicinity of a survey monument or position thereof, the relative position of which is of public record and which is used to perpetuate the location of the monument
• 765 ILCS 220/3.05"Aliquot corner" means any corner in the public land survey system created by subdividing a section of land according to the rules of procedure set forth in the "Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States"
• 765 ILCS 220/3.06"Control Corner" means any land survey monument whose position controls the location of the boundaries of a tract or parcel of land
• 765 ILCS 220/4Property › 765 ILCS 220 — Land Survey Monuments Act
• 765 ILCS 220/5The charge for indexing and recording the monument record shall be the same as for the recording of a miscellaneous document
• 765 ILCS 220/6It shall be the duty of the examining committee to prescribe the form in which such monument record shall be presented and recorded, and time limits within which the form shall be recorded
• 765 ILCS 220/7Property › 765 ILCS 220 — Land Survey Monuments Act
• 765 ILCS 220/8No monument record shall be recorded unless the same is signed by an Illinois Registered Land Surveyor and impressed with his seal
• 765 ILCS 220/9Property › 765 ILCS 220 — Land Survey Monuments Act