HF794 Summary

• Replaces "permanent marking" language with "perpetuation" of public land survey corners destroyed or obliterated during highway construction, reconstruction, or maintenance.

• Changes requirement for reference or witness monuments from "at least two places" to "at least three places" when establishing corner locations, with provision that two suffices if three is not practicable.

• Establishes "certificate of location of government corner" as the standard document for recording public land survey corner perpetuation, replacing previous "U.S. public land survey monument record" terminology and specifying required content elements.

• Allows plats, registered land surveys, and CIC plats to be recorded without notarial stamp if certificate of notarial act includes jurisdiction, officer name and title, and commission expiration date printed in pen and ink or typewritten on the document.

• Repeals Minnesota Statutes sections 160.15, subdivisions 2, 4, and 5, and section 389.09, subdivision 2, consolidating monument placement procedures and certificate filing requirements into streamlined provisions.