Oklahoma Administrative Rules - Subchapter 21

    The purpose of the Corner Perpetuation and Filing Act, 65 O.S. Sections 3.116- 3.123 is to protect and perpetuate public land survey corners and information concerning the location of such corners, by requiring the systematic establishment of monuments and filing of information concerning the marking of the location of such public land survey corners. The Archives and Records Division of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries serves as the registry for Certified Corner Records. Certified Corner Records may be filed directly with the Archives and Records Division of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries or with a Board-approved vendor, which may accept digital Certified Corner Records from licensees and shall submit them on behalf of the licensee to the Archives and Records Division of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. The Board is charged, by law, with the responsibility to prescribe the information to be included, to prescribe the form in which such Certified Corner Records shall be presented and filed, and to enforce the provisions of the Act.

• (a) Each Certified Corner Record shall be prepared on the Certified Corner Record Form adopted by the Board in accordance with the Instruction Manual for Oklahoma Certified Corner Records adopted by the Board.
• (b) The Professional Land Surveyor shall complete and file a Certified Corner Record for every public land survey corner which is established, reestablished, monumented, remonumented, restored, rehabilitated, perpetuated, or used as control in any survey. In addition, the center one quarter corner shall be filed if it is monumented or an existing monument is accepted. The completed Certified Corner Record shall be filed within ninety (90) days after the survey is completed, unless the public land survey corner and accessories are substantially as described in an existing, filed Certified Corner Record. The Board shall consider a survey complete when any one of the following occurs:
  • (1) Monuments have been established; or
  • (2) A plat or drawing has been submitted; or
  • (3) Field notes for plans or planned purposed have been submitted.