Association of Newfoundland Land Surveyors

                    President's Message

The Association of Newfoundland Land Surveyors is a self regulating professional organization which is governed in accordance with the Land Surveyors Act, 1991.

The objects of the Association are:

To establish and maintain standards of professional conduct, knowledge and skill among its members to assure to the general public the proficiency and competency of land surveying in the province and to serve and protect the public interest;

To promote, increase and improve the knowledge, skill, efficiency and proficiency of its members in all matters relating to the profession and practice of land surveying in the province;

To regulate the practice of land surveying in the province and to govern the profession according to this Act and to do all things to advance and protect the interests of members; and

To communicate and cooperate with other professional organizations for the advancement and best interest of the profession and of the practice of land surveying.

Members of the Association are highly skilled and use the latest in surveying technology. They can answer your questions relating to property boundaries. Your boundary corners are marked with a special plastic cap on a piece of rebar. These markers indicate the surveyors name and registration number as well as a time line covering a two year period.

It is said that good fences make for good neighbours. This can only be true if the fences are placed along the true legal boundaries. Whenever you purchase a property insure that you can locate your boundaries. The best way to accomplish this is to insist on a new survey to accompany your transaction. Ask your surveyor to show you the corners. When you consider the cost of purchasing a property, the cost of a survey is insignificant and will certainly ease your mind and assure you that there are no boundary disputes.

According to the Limitations Act, the limitation period for errors and omissions is two years. This limit may be stretched for an ultimate period of ten years after a survey is done if the property owner can prove there was no way they could have known of the error. Even though all surveyors carry an errors and omissions insurance, you as a property owner may not be covered for a mistake made by the surveyor if the survey used in a transaction is more than two years old.  Make sure your survey is current. Call a surveyor if you are not sure.