House Bill 132 Summary

• Adds new definition of "witness corner" as a monumented point near a corner established when occupying the actual corner is impracticable.

• Revises requirements for highway right-of-way plats to specify monumentation standards, including magnetically detectable monuments and witness corners and reference points.

• Increases penalty for willfully defacing, injuring or removing survey monuments from an unspecified amount to $1,500 per offense.

• Requires professional engineers preparing construction documents to conduct field searches for existing monuments, reference monuments and accessories to corners before construction begins, and to show their location on construction plans.

• Standardizes terminology throughout Idaho Code sections 40, 50, 54, and 55 relating to land surveys, monuments, and professional engineering and surveying practices, including revisions to definitions of reference monuments, property corners, and survey requirements.