The Legal Surveying System TSYH 3331

Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

Module 1 - General Survey Principles

• State and define the types of legal surveys.
• State and define the five types of metes and bounds descriptions.
• State and compare descriptions by subdivision as compared to metes and bounds.
• Plot a survey plan from a deed description.
• State and describe the township system of surveying.
• Discuss the use of photogrammetric methods in performing property surveys.

Module 2 - Land Registration, Monumentation and Sources of Survey Information

• State or define the four basic principles of the B.C. system of title registration, based on the Torrens system and legislated under the Land Titles Act.
• Identify, name and state the uses of the various types of survey monumentation used in legal surveys.
• State the sources of various types of survey information which is on record.

Module 3 - Systems of Survey

• State and define the Township system of survey and its major divisions and numbering system.
• State and discuss the nine systems of survey used in Canada.

Module 4 - The Land Survey Act and Integrated Survey Regulations

• State and define the terms related to Integrated Control Surveys and Monumentation.
• State and define the terms related to Cadastral Surveys in Integrated Survey Areas.
• Discuss the similarities and differences between Control Surveys and Cadastral Surveys in Integrated Survey Areas.

Module 5 - Land Titles Act and Regulations

• State and define the general requirements for registration of indefeasible title and registration of a charge against a property.
• State and define the general requirements for subdivision plans that are to be deposited in the Land Titles Offices.
• State and define the general requirements for subdivision of land.
• State and define two methods for the appointment of approving officers and the general role of the approving officer in the approval and registration of subdivision plans.
• State and define the definitions and general requirements for the preparation of survey plans to be deposited in the Land Titles Office.

Module 6 - Land Act And Expropriation Act

• Explain the purpose of the Land Act, and the basic provisions for the disposition of Crown Land.
• Define the exemption of roads from Crown Grants, and determine the applicable width of road rights-of-way under the provisions of the Land Act.
• Explain the right of the Crown to resume certain portions of private land for road purposes.
• Describe the fundamentals of expropriation, and the expropriation procedure.
• Explain the processes which apply to expropriation issues where there is agreement regarding land to be transferred, but disagreement on compensation.

Module 7 - Right-of-Way Surveys

• Provide a broad definition of the term 'highway' as it applies to the Highway Act and other legislation.
• Explain the methods by which highways may be created.
• Define what is meant by a 'Section 4' road.
• Define subdivision plans, explanatory plans, and reference plans, and posting plans.
• Explain 'statutory right-of-way' and how it applies to roads and highways.
• Outline the Surveyor General's requirements for right-of-way surveys, including the provision for 'Block Outline Surveys.'

Effective as of Fall 2003