Montana § 76-3-404 - Certificate Of Survey

§ 76-3-404. Certificate Of Survey

Certificate of survey. (1) Except as provided in 70-22-105 , within 180 days of the completion of a survey, the registered land surveyor responsible for the survey, whether the surveyor is privately or publicly employed, shall prepare and submit for filing a certificate of survey in the county in which the survey was made if the survey: (a) provides material evidence not appearing on any map filed with the county clerk and recorder or contained in the records of the United States bureau of land management; (b) reveals a material discrepancy in the map; (c) discloses evidence to suggest alternate locations of lines or points; or (d) establishes one or more lines not shown on a recorded map, the positions of which are not ascertainable from an inspection of the map without trigonometric calculations. (2) A certificate of survey is not required for any survey that is made by the United States bureau of land management, that is preliminary, or that will become part of a subdivision plat being prepared for recording under the provisions of this chapter. (3) Certificates of survey must be legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record and must conform to monumentation and surveying requirements promulgated under this chapter.