Can a Land Surveyor Enter My Property?
Surveys Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.30
Right to enter land, buildings
6 (1) A surveyor or a person in the surveyor’s employ while making a survey may,
(a) at any time enter and pass over the land of any person; or
(b) at any time suitable to the occupant of a building enter the building,
and do any act thereon or therein for any purpose of the survey, but the surveyor is liable for any damage occasioned thereby.
Land Surveyors can enter a property for the purposes of cadastral surveying.
Land surveyors and field crews are required to enter neighbouring properties in order to re-stablish boundaries. The firm is required to be licensed by AOLS under the Surveyor’s Act in order to be fall under the Surveys Act.
The survey crew is required to identify themselves when asked and will provide business cards with contact information of the Ontario Land Surveyor they are working for.
Click here for more on the Right of Entry from the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors
