Idaho Statutes

TITLE 31 COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

CHAPTER 27 COUNTY SURVEYOR

31-2705.  ESTABLISHMENT OF COUNTY LINES. 
Whenever it shall be ordered by an act of the legislature to establish the 
boundary line between two (2) counties, the board of county commissioners 
of each county interested in the boundary shall jointly select and retain the 
services of a professional land surveyor to establish said boundary line, or 
each county shall select and retain the services of a professional land surveyor 
who shall jointly establish said boundary, and firmly plant and mark corners and 
monuments of imperishable material, also to prepare plats and field notes jointly, 
one (1) copy of which shall be filed with the auditor and recorder of each of
the counties so interested. The fees and compensations for such surveys,
plats and field notes, shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the
order of the county commissioners of each county to the respective
surveyors so employed.

31-2707.  COUNTY SURVEYS TO BE MADE BY PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR.
All surveys, maps and plats ordered by the board of county commissioners shall
be made by a professional land surveyor retained by the board who shall be
paid such fee as may be fixed and agreed upon.

31-2709.  SURVEYS MUST CONFORM TO UNITED STATES MANUAL. 
No surveys or resurveys hereafter made shall be considered legal evidence 
in any court within the state, except such surveys as are made in accordance 
with the United States manual of surveying instructions, the circular on restoration
of lost or obliterated corners and subdivisions of sections, issued by the general
land office, or by the authority of the United States, the state of Idaho, or by mutual 
consent of the parties.