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Davis County adopts ordinance to protect public land survey monuments, authorizes fees and penalties

5824102 · September 23, 2025
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Summary

The Davis County Commission adopted an ordinance creating protections, fees and penalties for public land survey corner monuments and established a new county code chapter (14.22) to implement the changes.

The Davis County Commission adopted an ordinance establishing protections and a fee schedule for public land survey corners and monuments.

Chris Preston of the county attorney’s office presented the ordinance on behalf of the surveyor’s office. Preston said the public land survey system’s corner monuments are critical to property deeds and boundary descriptions across the valley and that development and construction sometimes move or destroy those monuments. He described a state statute…

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