Can i remove survey stakes

The property corner intends to create a substantial landmark that will be used to identify boundaries for decades or centuries. Some states have specific Trespass Laws allowing surveyors access to positions without being burdening the surface owners, as long as no property damage is done. With that said, if you place landscaping or turf on top of a property corner, expect it to be dug up and used at some point in the future, surveyors require access to the property corners.

Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Land Surveying Inc. Land Surveying Incorporated N. Works Ave. Since that working out process includes having the survey companies view the stakes, removal of them will not be helpful. If the stakes are used to show a boundary line, but you want them removed because you find them visually offensive, you will have to file a civil suit to have them removed.

If the stakes are your own stakes for measuring out where, for instance, a septic system will be located, you are within your rights to remove them. However, if you or anyone working with you will need the stakes to find this location, it would be inadvisable to remove them.

Survey pegs that mark boundary corners generally take the following form. They are square 50mm square in urban areas, and 75mm square in rural areas , protrude from the ground between 50 and mm, and are made of wood or plastic.

They are white, and often have the lot numbers painted in black. Only registered cadastral surveyors are permitted to place survey pegs that mark boundary corners. Disputes over property lines may have to be resolved as civil matters before judicial courts.

Under Section of the California Penal Code it is a misdemeanor to intentionally remove or destroy a permanent survey marker. Removal or destruction of survey markers should be reported to the County Sheriff's office, or to the appropriate police department if it was done within one of the four incorporated cities.

Survey markers are sometimes destroyed during major construction projects if it is impossible to protect them in place because of the nature of the work. If this occurs, the obliterated markers should be replaced or memorialized in another way that will maintain continuity of the historical record. In concrete there may be a lead plug with a tag instead of a pipe. Significant locations in roadways, bridges, etc. Wooden stakes or lath with ribbon, or nails in asphalt with paint marks are not considered permanent markers.

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