Tennessee Specific Surveying (TS) Practice Exam

Monuments are markers that establish and perpetuate land boundaries. If there’s an existing monument that is undisturbed and adequately marks the boundary, there’s no reason to place another one. Adding a new monument when the current marker already defines the boundary wastes time and money and can create confusion if measurements don’t perfectly align. New monuments are warranted only when the existing marker is disturbed, missing, or inadequate to perpetuate the boundary, or when reestablishing the line after a break in the chain of title. Landowner requests don’t by themselves justify monumenting, and an unclear boundary isn’t automatically a reason to place a new marker without first verifying the boundary. So the situation where no monument should be placed is precisely when the existing monument is undisturbed and adequate.