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Committee recommends passage of bill to reestablish historic survey monuments, refers measure to judiciary
Summary
The State Government Committee recommended Senate File 59 to require counties to locate and reestablish original public land survey monuments, citing property‑line disputes caused by newer survey methods; the measure was sent to the Judiciary Committee for further work.
The State Government Committee recommended passage on Jan. 28 of Senate File 59, a bill that would require counties to locate and reestablish historic public land survey monuments used to define property boundaries.
Sponsor Sen. Green told the panel the measure aims to halt boundary shifts that have appeared after modern surveys, describing cases in which residents lost access to wells or had property effectively moved by updated surveys. "What this bill does is it will require the counties to go in and do the best job they can to find these original monuments and reestablish them so that we can fix this before it goes any further than it already has," Sen. Green…
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