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Chapter D15 ver. 2

Survey Reports

Table of Contents

Effective Date

This Chapter is effective April 1, 2008. It replaces Chapter D15 as published April 1, 2004 in the General Instructions for the Survey of Canada Lands.

Chapter Sections

General

  1. For every survey undertaken on Canada Lands, a surveyor shall submit for filing in the Canada Lands Surveys Records, a report describing:
    1. circumstances where the general instructions, the specific survey instructions, or other requirements could not be complied with, and the resulting action taken;
    2. any occurrences which may have impeded the project;
    3. any monument destruction, or activity which could result in monument destruction, in the area of the survey;
    4. the type of terrain, access to the site, or weather conditions which affected the execution of the survey;
    5. contacts made with local officials and the reasons for the contacts;
    6. any affidavits regarding evidence of boundaries taken during the course of the survey;
    7. where surveys are geo-referenced, the general method by which surveys were positioned, including the accuracies achieved;
    8. for surveys utilizing GPS systems, the system used and the method of operation, giving sufficient information to verify the accuracy of the derived position and measurements. In particular, report on the independent redundancy checks of any RTK observations; and
    9. any other matters that the surveyor believes to be relevant to the survey.
  2. If a surveyor believes that there is nothing to report, then a report stating this should be submitted by the surveyor.
  3. The survey report shall include copies of any plans or other documents which are mentioned in the survey report, have not been previously submitted and are not recorded in the Canada Lands Surveys Records.
  4. The survey report shall be signed and dated by the surveyor. Survey reports intended for recording in the Canada Lands Survey Records shall be certified and sealed in accordance with Section 37 of the Canada Lands Surveyors Regulations.

Official Surveys

  1. For official surveys the following additional items must be reported on:
    1. the name of the person or agency who requested the survey, the reason for it and the type of transaction which will be based on the plan;
    2. the ownership or other interests affecting the land surveyed;
    3. any features which are close to or extending over the boundaries surveyed;
    4. the results of searches made for physical, documentary or verbal evidence which is not shown on the plan or in the field notes;
    5. an explanation of any survey problems encountered and how they were dealt with;
    6. the legal principles used to restore or re-establish monuments if the principles are not evident on the plan or in the field notes;
    7. the background or reasons for determining shape, size, or location of parcels;
    8. if access to the parcel is not evident on the plan, an explanation of how access is to be provided;
    9. any adjustments made to boundaries, including boundaries of parcels shown on registration plans being replaced by official plans;
    10. blazing and cutting out of boundaries;
    11. any measurements of boundaries adopted from prior surveys where the surveyor personally surveyed those boundaries and the reasons for their adoption; and
    12. any discrepancies with previous surveys and an explanation of how they were dealt with.