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County surveyor powers and duties:
(1) It shall be the duty of the county surveyor to make or
cause to be made all surveys within his or her county that
the county surveyor may be called upon to make and record
the same.
(2) The county surveyor shall prepare and file the required
annual inventory statement of county personal property in
his or her custody possession as provided in sections 23-346
to 23-350.
Trespass; exemption from liability. The
county surveyor in the performance of his official duties,
shall not be liable to prosecution for trespass.
Original corners; perpetuation. It shall
be the duty of the county surveyor in surveys made by him
or her to perpetuate all original corners not at the time
well marked, and all corners or angles that he or she may
establish or reestablish, in a permanent manner by setting
monuments containing ferromagnetic material, according to
the instructions of the State Surveyor.
Corners; establishment and restoration; rules governing.
The boundaries of the public lands established by the duly
appointed government surveyors, when approved by the Surveyor
General and accepted by the government, are unchangeable,
and the corners established thereon by them shall be held
and considered as the true corners which they were intended
to represent, and the restoration of lines and corners of
said surveys and the division of sections into their legal
subdivisions shall be in accordance with the laws of the United
States, the circular of instructions of the United States
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, on
the restoration of lost and obliterated section corners and
quarter corners, and the circular of instructions to the county
surveyors by the State Surveyor under authority of the Board
of Educational Lands and Funds. The county surveyor is hereby
authorized to restore lost and obliterated corners of original
surveys and to establish the sub divisional corners of sections
in accordance with the provisions of the section and section
23-1907. Any registered land surveyor registered under the
provisions of sections 81-8,108 to 81-8,127 is hereby authorized
to establish any corner not monumented in the original government
surveys in accordance with the provisions of this section
23-1907. Subdivision shall be executed according to the plan
indicated by the original field notes and plats of surveys
and governed by the original and legally restored corners.
The survey of the sub divisional lines of sections in violation
of this section shall be absolutely void.
Surveys; records; contents; available to public.
The county surveyor shall record all surveys, for permanent
purposes, made by him or her, as required by sections 81-8,121
to 81-8,122.02. Such record shall set forth the names of the
persons making the application for the survey, for whom the
work was done, and a statement showing it to be an official
county survey or resurvey. The official records, other plats,
and field notes of the county surveyor?s office shall be deemed
and considered public records. Any agent or authority of the
United States, the State Surveyor or any deputy state surveyor
of Nebraska, or any surveyor registered pursuant to sections
81-8,108 to 81-8,127, shall at all times, within reasonable
office or business hours, have free access to the surveys,
field notes, maps, charts, records, and other papers as provided
for in sections 23-1901 to 23-1913. In all counties, where
no regular office is maintained in the county courthouse for
the county surveyor of that county, the county clerk shall
be custodian of the official record of surveys and all other
permanent records pertaining to the office of county surveyor.
Land surveying. Land surveying shall mean
the establishment or reestablishment of corners and the boundaries
and the location of lots, parcels, tracts, or divisions of
land, which may include distance, direction, elevation, and
acreage, and the correct determination and description of
lots, parcels, tracts, or divisions of land for, but not limited
to, any of the following purposes:
a. To furnish a legal description of any tract of land to
be used in the preparation of deeds of conveyance when the
description is not the same as the one in the deed of conveyance
to the current owner or when bearings, distances, or measurements
are needed to properly describe the tract being conveyed;
b. To furnish a legal description of any land surveyed to
be used in the platting or subdividing of the land;
c. To determine the amount of acreage contained in any land
surveyed; or
d. To furnish a topographic plat of a lot, parcel, tract,
or division of land and locating natural and artificial features
in the air, on the surface or subsurface of the earth, and
on the beds or surface of bodies of water for the purpose
of establishing the facts of size, area, shape, topography,
and orientation of improved or unimproved real property and
appurtenances to the real property.
Contact:
Surveyor
Trenton Snow
PO Box 1270
Kearney, NE 68848
Phone: (308) 236-1242
E-mail:
Office Hours-M-F 8:00am-5:00pm
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