Definition : Land surveyor

A professional and public officer, member of the Quebec Order of Land Surveyors, the practice of which is to survey, measure for the purpose of boundary determination lots and buildings and to proceed to the preparation of plans and certificates of location. In divided co-ownership, the land surveyor measures the common and private portions. It also draws up the certificate of location relating either to each of the private portions (certificate of location on the private portion), or to all the common and private portions (global certificate of location), or both.

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