In this chapter, (1) 'commissioner' means the commissioner of natural resources; (2) 'land surveyor' means a professional land surveyor licensed under AS 08.48; (3) 'monument' means (A) a United States public land survey monument; (B) an Alaska state land survey primary monument; (C) an exterior primary monument controlling a recorded survey; (D) a geodetic control monument established by a state or federal agency; (4) 'subdivision' has the meaning given in AS 40.15.900; (5) 'United States public land survey monument' (A) means a survey monument established in a cadastral survey by the Bureau of Land Management or its predecessor; (B) includes a monument in a United States special survey and United States mineral survey that is a part of the public land records of the Bureau of Land Management.
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