Panel backs bill to let surveyors avoid dangerous monument placements and submit records electronically

Representative Marshall described Senate Bill 25 as a technical, public‑safety bill that gives surveyors authority to set safer offsets or witness corners when placing monuments and allows electronic submission of monument records in place of a paper‑only requirement. "We put these on a 30 inch long piece of metal and drive it into the ground. It gets pretty dangerous when we stand in the middle of an intersection," Grand County surveyor Warren Ward testified.

Mesa County surveyor and legislative‑committee chair Scott Thompson described the administrative benefits of digital record submission and recounted a workplace fatality that underscored the safety rationale. "We'd really like to make those all digital," Thompson said, recounting that paper routing and a contractor review process added cost and delay.

The committee moved SB 25 to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation; the motion passed unanimously.