Mandate

The Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association, duly incorporated in 1910, is an organization formed to govern land surveyors and professional surveyors who are registered to practice in accordance with the provisions of The Land Surveyors and Professional Surveyors Act, Chapter L-3.1, of the revised statutes of Saskatchewan.

Mission

Administer the profession and regulate the practice of land surveying for the protection of the public within Saskatchewan.

Values

We are committed to carrying out our mission and goals with integrity, impartiality, honesty and excellence.

What Our Members Do

The members of our association have been, and continue to be, engaged in the determination, measurement and establishment of boundaries of land and related activities.

Land surveyors are public officers. They do not represent a single client in establishing client's boundaries but rather they represent society at large. Every boundary monument marks a boundary between at least two adjoining properties. Surveyors therefore must be fair and impartial to all parties; they cannot give undue consideration to their clients' interests and disregard those of their clients' neighbors and potential adversaries. Here, their responsibilities are quite different than those of doctors, lawyers or accountants, each of whom normally need act only with the interest of a single party in mind. They must preserve in all their work, the judicial mind and impartial attitude of an arbitrator rather than the bias of an advocate. In cases of litigation, the land surveyor's testimony will be accepted as evidence to which the greatest weight is attached.

Objectives

In order to protect the public, the objectives of the Association are:

• to ensure the proficiency and competency of its members;

• to regulate its members in the practice of professional land surveying and the practice of professional surveying; and

• to govern its members in accordance with the Act, Bylaws and any other Acts or laws.

What We Do

The Association protects the public by setting high standards for academic qualifications, experience, continuing education, insurance, and professional practice in the surveying profession. It also investigates formal complaints from the public and disciplines its members when necessary.

 Complaints

In order to accomplish our mission of administering and regulating the practice of land surveying for the protection of the public, the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors' Association follows the complaints procedure outlined in the Land Surveyors and Professional Surveyors Act.

If you have a concern about a Saskatchewan Land Surveyor or Professional Surveyor, we encourage you to contact that surveyor directly. This is sufficient to resolve many situations.

If your concern persists, please contact our office. We will do our best to help.

There may be some situations in which you wish to file a formal complaint against a Saskatchewan Land Surveyor or professional Surveyor.

Please read through the complaints process before completing the complaint form.