New York Laws
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.

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