email: kathy@ctsurveyor.com

[ Home ] [ Officers ] [ Bookstore ] [ Links ] [ Membership ] [ Classifieds ] [ Codes and Standards ] [ Bulletin Board ] [ Town Filing Requirements ] [ Articles ] [ Scholarships ] [ Legislative Update ] [ Continuing Education ]

Unlawful Destruction or Disturbance of Surveyor's Marker.

Substitute House Bill 5983, Sec. 47-34a

(a) Any person who knowingly injures, destroys, disturbs or removes any marker properly placed on any tract of land by a surveyor, or by any person at the direction of a surveyor, for the purpose of designating any point, course or line in the boundary of such tract of land, shall be fined not less than one hundred fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, a surveyor licensed under chapter 391, or a person acting at the direction of any such licensed surveyor, may remove an existing marker in order to place an upgraded marker in the same location.

(1971, P.A. 804; P.A. 88-99)