Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2030 - Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Professional Landscape Architects
Chapter 17 - United States Public Land Survey Corners
Section 20 CSR 2030-17.020 - Authorization for Removal or Alteration of Corners

PURPOSE: This rule is being amended to come into compliance with HB 650 which was passed in 2013 moving the State Land Surveyor's office from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to the Missouri Department of Agriculture.

PURPOSE: This rule identifies who is authorized to alter or remove a corner of the United States Public Land Survey and how to obtain permission from the Department of Agriculture.

Only a professional land surveyor is authorized to remove, alter, restore, or reestablish a corner of the United States Public Land Survey. Any professional land surveyor who removes, alters, restores, or reestablishes a corner of the United States Public Land Survey shall report his actions by filing an approved document with the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Land Survey Program within ninety (90) days from the date of the field work. The permission required by section 60.550, RSMo, is granted upon filing the approved document with the Missouri Department of Agriculture Land Survey Program.

*Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999.