Meander line definition
Meander line means a traverse approximately along the margin of a body of water. A meander line provides data for computing areas and approximately locates the margin of the body of water. A meander line does not ordinarily determine or fix boundaries.
Meander line means fixed determinable lines run by the federal government along the banks of all navigable bodies of water and other important rivers and lakes for the purpose of defining the sinuosities of the shore or bank and as a means of ascertaining the areas of fractional subdivisions of the public lands bordering thereon.
Meander line means the surveyed meander line of Great Salt Lake unless otherwise established by court order or negotiated boundary settlement.
More Definitions of Meander line
Meander line means a traverse of body of water for the purpose of determining the size and location of the body of water. For riparian owners, meander lines do not represent the boundary lines; the body of water where it exists represents the true boundary line. When meander lines are non-riparian, they may become land boundary lines.
Meander line means a line along a body of water intended to be used solely as a reference for surveying.
Meander line means the traverse run at the line of mean high water or ordinary high water of a permanent natural body of water, surveyed not as a boundary, but to define generally the sinuosities of the bank or shoreline and to determine the approximate quantity of land remaining after segregation of the water area;
Meander line means a line described by courses and distances, being a straight line between fixed points or monuments, or a series of connecting straight lines, used under this title for purposes of calculating areas, and not used for fixing boundaries.