Protección de Monumentos de Control Geodésico y Límites de Propiedad

Explicación Simple

Esta ley dice que no puedes mover ni destruir marcas que indican límites de terrenos. Estas marcas son importantes para saber dónde empieza y termina una propiedad.

Es como cuando marcas el lugar donde estacionaste tu coche en un gran estacionamiento. Si mueves esa marca, podrías perder tu coche porque no sabrías dónde lo dejaste.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan está construyendo una casa en un terreno que compró. Un día, sin querer, quita una estaca que marca el límite de su propiedad. Según esta ley, Juan podría tener problemas si se descubre que movió esa estaca, ya que es importante para saber dónde termina su terreno.

Penalidades

Es ilegal mover o destruir estos monumentos y puede llevar a consecuencias legales.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

SECTION 16-11-680. Destruction or removal of geodetic control or property corner monuments. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Geodetic control monuments" means those land surveying monuments which are established by federal, state, and local governments, and private entities, the position of which monuments on the earth's surface has been fixed by high-order surveying and computation for use by the land surveyors. Such monuments may be in the form of, but are not limited to, metal, disks set in concrete, rock, or some other fixed permanent object, the horizontal and vertical positions of which have been published by the agency which established the monument and made available to the public as well as to land surveyors and engineers for public use. (2) "Property corner monuments" means those land surveying monuments which are established by a licensed professional land surveyor to identify property corners or property lines, the location and description of which are made a part of any recorded or unrecorded plat or any instrument pertaining to real property filed in the register of deeds office or other public office of any county of this State. These surveying monuments may be any permanent or semipermanent object or any live or dead tree material including, but not limited to: (a) iron or steel pipes, rebars, spikes, nails, scribed marks in concrete, or metal rods; (b) concrete markers, including highway right of way markers; (c) stone or rock, whether natural or erected; (d) trees, stumps, stakes, and marks, including those marks made on trees, concrete, or metal; (e) and such other monuments as may be described in plats, instruments of record, and federal, state, and local law. (B)(1) It is unlawful for a person to maliciously or fraudulently move, alter, destroy, or