Who can practice land surveying?

The Land Surveyors Act spells out who may and may not engage in the practice of land surveying in Alberta.


3 Practice of Land Surveying

1. No person except an Alberta land surveyor, surveyor's corporation or surveyor's partnership shall engage in the practice of land surveying.  
2. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person engaged in the practice of land surveying while the person is an employee of a practitioner in the course of the person's employment.
   
3. Everything done in the practice of land surveying shall be done by or under the supervision, direction and control of a practitioner.  
4. No Alberta land surveyor shall sign a plan or document in the practice of surveying unless it is prepared by the surveyor or under the surveyor's personal supervision, direction and control.

1. No person except a practitioner shall   
   1. use the name " Alberta land surveyor", "surveyor" or "land surveyor" or any abbreviation of them either alone or in combination with any other word,    
   2. use the initials "ALS" either alone or in combination with any other word, initial or abbreviation, or    
   3. use any title, name, description, abbreviation, letter or symbol representing the name "Alberta land surveyor", "surveyor" or "land surveyor" that represents expressly or by implication that the person is an Alberta land surveyor, surveyor's corporation or surveyor's partnership.
      
2. No person except a practitioner shall represent or hold out, expressly or by implication, that
   1. the person is entitled to engage in the practice of land surveying, or    
   2. the person is an Alberta land surveyor, surveyor's corporation or surveyor's partnership, as the case may be.

5 Use of Stamp

1. No surveyor's corporation or surveyor's partnership shall affix its stamp or permit its stamp to be affixed to a plan or other document prepared in the practice of surveying unless the plan or document was prepared by or under the personal supervision, direction and control of an Alberta land surveyor.
   

6   Injunction

1. The Court, on application by the Council by way of originating notice, may grant an injunction enjoining any person from doing any act or thing that contravenes this Part notwithstanding any penalty that may be provided by this Act or the regulations in respect of that contravention.