SECTIONS 27580-27585 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 27580-27585

27580. If in the performance of his official duties any surveyor
finds a government corner which has been marked by a government
surveyor by placing charcoal in the ground or a wooden stake, earth
mound, or other perishable monument, he shall remark the corner by
placing therein a monument of heavily galvanized iron pipe or
galvanized iron stake not less than two inches in diameter and not
less than two feet long, or other monument not less in size and
equally imperishable.

27581. All monuments located in public highways shall be placed
with the top not less than 12 inches below the surface of the ground,
but when not located in public highways, they shall be placed with
the top six inches above the surface of the ground. If the top of the
monument is placed above the ground and is of metal, it shall be not
less than four feet long.

27582. The surveyor shall note witness objects that are within a
reasonable distance of any corner, and state distance and course from
the corner. He shall record the note in a properly indexed record
book in the county surveyor's office. The book is a public record.

27583. The board of supervisors shall furnish all necessary pipes
or stakes for monuments in the county on demand and without cost.

27584. The board may establish a survey monument preservation fund
to pay the necessary expenses incurred or authorized by the county
surveyor in any retracement or remonument survey of major historical
land division lines upon which later surveys are based, such as, but
not limited to, government section lines, rancho lines, grant lines,
rancho section lines, acreage subdivision lot lines, and subdivision
boundary lines within such county.
The county surveyor may authorize a city engineer to perform such
surveys within subject city or may contract with any surveyor in
private practice to perform such surveys. When a city engineer or
contract surveyor performs such surveys, he shall submit notes of
such surveys to the county surveyor. Such notes shall be of the
quality and size as may be necessary to conform to the standardized
office records of the county surveyor. The county surveyor shall
prepare a map of the survey and make such map a part of his public
records within 90 days after completion of his fieldwork.

27585. (a) For the limited purpose of financing the survey monument
preservation fund pursuant to Section 27584, the board may impose a
user fee, not to exceed ten dollars ($10), or an amount set pursuant
to Section 54985, which shall be charged and collected by the county
recorder, over and above any other fees required by law, as a
condition precedent to the filing or recording of any grant deed
conveying real property. Grant deeds conveying lots created by
recorded tract maps shall be exempt from the user fee. Except as
otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the fees shall be forwarded
monthly by the county recorder to the county treasurer for deposit to
the county survey monument preservation fund. Following the
establishment of the fund, the board of supervisors may extinguish
the fund if a finding is made by the board that the need for the fund
no longer exists.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) or (c), if a city engineer of
a city with a population of more than 1,500,000 persons conducts the
survey pursuant to Section 27584, any user fees collected pursuant to
subdivision (a) on and after January 1, 1987, with respect to any
grant deed conveying real property located wholly within the city
shall be transferred monthly by the county recorder to the city
treasurer of the city to reimburse the city for the expenses incurred
by the city engineer in conducting that survey.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 2231 of the Revenue and Taxation Code,
and except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), no funds
collected by the county recorder for the survey monument preservation
fund shall be transferred to, or deposited in, any other fund or
used for any other purpose.