(A) Before a final map of a subdivision can be prepared or submitted, an accurate and complete boundary survey of the lots, blocks, roads, easements and boundaries of the subdivision must be made by a licensed surveyor.
(B) Monuments shall be set up as defined below and shall be permanently visibly marked or tagged with the registration and license number of the surveyor under whose supervision the survey was made, and a description of each monument to be set subsequent to recordation, shall be shown on the final map. Tags set in iron pins shall be grouted with mortar. The minimum allowable error of closure shall be one ten-thousandth (1/10,000). Temperature and tension correction shall be applied to all measured distances in conformance with the standards adopted by the federal board of survey and maps in May 1925.
(C) The engineer or surveyor in charge of such survey shall cause permanent monuments to be set as follows:
1. A class A monument shall be set:
(a) On each boundary corner of the subdivision.
(b) Along the boundary lines of the subdivision at intervals of not more than one-fourth (1/4) mile.
(c) At street intersections or by reference thereto.
(d) At the beginning and ending of each curve unless special conditions require an alternate setting.
(e) On all block corners in the subdivision.
2. A class B monument shall be set on each lot corner in the subdivision.
(D) Monuments required in this title shall be as follows:
1. A class A monument shall consist of a capped iron pipe having an inside diameter of two inches (2") or more, or a six inch by twelve inch (6" x 12") concrete monument, or a malleable metal capped steel shaft, or its equivalent thirty inches (30") long driven at least twenty four inches (24") into the ground.
2. A class B monument shall consist of an iron pipe having inside diameter of three-fourths inch (3/4") (or a reinforcing steel bar with a minimum diameter of 5/8 inch, and at least 18 inches long driven into the ground at least 12 inches and extending above the surface of the ground at least 6 inches with the top painted red) or more, at least eighteen inches (18") long, driven at least twelve inches (12") in the ground extending between four inches (4") and six inches (6") above the surface, and having a stamped galvanized cap.
3. Where a monument is set in a paved street, it shall be set with the top at least six inches (6") below the finished grade, and shall be covered with a cast iron cover set flush with the finished grade of the street.
4. By order entered in the minutes of the city council may authorize placement of other specified kinds of monuments or specified subdivisions.
(E) Every licensed surveyor who surveys a parcel of land in the city into two (2) or more separate parcels and prepares a map of record of each survey shall send a legible copy of such map to the planning commission within thirty (30) days after completion of such map. (Ord. 63, 12-8-1971)