Monument Survey Fee

Monument Survey Fee Collection

Government Code section 27585 authorizes the Survey Monument Fee, in order to finance the Survey Monument Preservation Fund to pay the necessary expenses incurred or authorized by the county surveyor in any retracement or remonument survey of major historical land division lines upon which later surveys are based (Government Code section 27584). The County Surveyor administers the fund.

 Monument Fee Collection Procedures:

The fee is $10.00 and will apply to Grant Deeds (Mono County Code section 2.20.071).

This does not include:

Quit Claim Deed

Tax Deed

Deed of Reconveyance

Deed of Trust

Easement Deed

Deed changing vesting (ie: community property to joint tenancy, or to your own trust)

Correction Deed/Re-Recorded Deed

Exemptions to the Fee Include (Mono County Code section 2.20.072):

Grant Deeds conveying lots created by recorded tract (subdivision) map

Grant Deed conveying real property from any public agency

Grant Deed conveying real property to any public agency

The only exempt legal descriptions are a reference to a full parcel created by a recorded Subdivision/Tract map or reference to a condominium unit

Examples of legal description that are NOT exempt:

Parcel created by a recorded Record of Survey Map

Parcel created by a recorded Parcel Map

Portion of a parcel created by a recorded Subdivision Map (including exceptions from described parcels)

U. S. Government Survey (Township & Range)

Metes and Bounds

Street address

Omnibus description (ie: all property located in Mono County)

Generic description (ie: the Conway Ranch)

NOTE: In the absence of a clear description the Recorder's Office will assume that a fee is due.

Example: "Lot 4 on Recorded Map 143 at Page 37, Mono County Records"