In most cases your attorney or title company will record the information for you. Check to be certain that it has been done and when the survey data has been officially recorded get a copy from the County Clerk with the Volume and Page reference where it was filed. Keep this information with your other legal documents concerning the property.
PRESERVE your survey monuments.
ONLY the monuments called for in your legal description, as it is recorded in the County Clerk's Office, have legal dignity. If you pull up a survey monument and replace it with a fence post you are rendering that survey monument legally NULL & VOID.
ONLY a marker set by a Licensed Surveyor and recorded in the public record can be used as a survey monument.
Intentionally damaging, disturbing, or moving, a survey monument is against the law.
If you intend to build a new fence to match your newly surveyed boundary build it inside the boundary near the survey monuments without disturbing them. The illustrations below suggest ways that you might build your new fence while preserving the legal status of your survey monuments.
The type of survey monuments used to mark a property can vary depending upon what is already in existence at the point to be marked (soil, concrete, rock, creeks, etc.) or an existing survey monument from a prior survey may already be in place.
Under normal conditions the survey monument used by Texas Surveying Company is a standard 5/8" diameter iron rod two feet in length driven into the ground at the point to be marked and topped with an orange plastic cap bearing the name of the company and the licence number of the Surveyor as illustrated below.
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