BOUNDARY SURVEYS

In New York state, licensed land surveyors and those under their direct employ enjoy a specific right to enter upon properties as required to complete a survey.

2022 New York Laws

GOB - General Obligations

Article 9 - Obligations of Care

Title 1 - Conditions on Real Property

9-105 - Right of Entry for Professional Land Surveyor Performing Surveying Services.

§ 9-105. Right of entry for professional land surveyor performing surveying services. 1. When performing surveying services as a professional land surveyor licensed under article one hundred forty-five of the education law, the land surveyor and authorized agents or employees of any such land surveyor may enter upon or cross any lands necessary to perform surveying services provided that the surveyor and authorized agents or employees of such land surveyor:

a. makes reasonable efforts to notify the landowner or, in the case of a lease, the lessee thereof of his or her intention to enter upon the owner's or lessee's land to make a land survey;

b. operates upon such lands during reasonable hours;

c. operates within a reasonable distance from the property line of the land being surveyed; and

d. carries proper identification as to their registration or employment and displays such identification to anyone requesting identification.

2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to:

a. remove civil liability for damage to land, chattels, crops or personal property; or

b. authorized any professional land surveyor, authorized agent or employee to enter any building or structure used as a residence or for storage.

Setting markers at the property corners and/or along property lines is not included but may be added for an additional fee.

We will gather the documents necessary for conducting our survey. If you want us to plot easements you will need to provide us with a title report and underlying documents. If you cannot provide these documents we can order them for an additional fee.