Section 54.201. Definitions.

Rule 1. (1) As used in these rules:

(a)       “Act” means the state survey and remonumentation act, 1990 PA 345, MCL 54.261 to 54.279.

(b)     “Applicant” means a county or multiple counties that apply for a grant pursuant to the act.

(c)      “Application” means an annual grant application pursuant to section 13 of the

act.

(d)      “Annual grant agreement” means the contract between the department and an

applicant.

(e)     “Corner code” means the designation given a corner based on its location within the surveyed township as established on the form pursuant to R 339.17403(8).

(f)    “Department” means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

(g)     “Grant administrator” means a person who is appointed by the county board of commissioners.

(h)     “Grantee" means an applicant that receives a grant pursuant to the act.

(i)     “Land corner recordation certificate” (LCRC) means the document prepared and filed pursuant to the corner recordation act, 1970 PA 74, MCL 54.201 to 54.210d, and the form prescribed in R 339.17403(7).

(j)       “Monument” means a marker that occupies the position of a corner and that possesses, or is made to possess, a magnetic field, or is set pursuant to the corner recordation act, 1970 PA 74, MCL 54.201 to 54.210d.

(k)      “Monumentation” means the process by which a public land survey corner or property controlling corner position was established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey by the United States government.

(l)       “Peer review group” means the advisory panel of surveyors who review and provide advice on corners presented by surveyors.

(m)          “Public land survey corner” means any corner actually established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey used as a basis of legal description for issuing a patent for the land to a private person from the United States government.

(n)          “Remonumentation” means all land surveying activities performed by a surveyor to perpetuate a remonumentation corner pursuant to the act.

(o)       “Remonumentation corner” means a public land survey corner or a property controlling corner established and monumented in an original survey or resurvey by the United States government, being perpetuated pursuant to the act and these rules.

(p)      “Remonumentation surveyor” means the licensed professional surveyor who is awarded a contract, by a grantee, to perform remonumentation of remonumentation corners.

(q)     “Standard monument” means any monument defined in a county plan.

(r)         “Surveyor” means a professional surveyor licensed under article 20 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339.2001 to 339.2014.

(2) Terms defined in the act have the same meanings when used in these rules.

History: 1992 AACS; 2013 AACS.