Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time
Section 5537 - Land surveying


All actions to recover any or all damages against any person engaged in the practice of land surveying occurring as the result of any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be commenced within 12 years from the time the services are performed. Any such action not commenced within this 12-year period shall be forever barred. The cause of action in such cases shall accrue when the services are performed. Furthermore, any action shall be commenced within four years from the time that such cause of action was discovered, but no later than during this 12-year limitation period. In any event, no action shall be commenced after the 12 years from the time that the services are performed. The term "practice of land surveying" shall be the same as defined under the act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.913, No.367), known as the Engineer, Land Surveyor and Geologist Registration Law.
(June 30, 1988, P.L.464, No.79, eff. imd.; July 7, 2006, P.L.348, No.72, eff. 60 days)

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE

Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 5501 - Scope of chapter

Section 5502 - Method of computing periods of limitation generally

Section 5503 - Commencement of matters

Section 5504 - Judicial extension of time

Section 5505 - Modification of orders

Section 5521 - Limitations on foreign claims

Section 5522 - Six months limitation

Section 5523 - One year limitation

Section 5524 - Two year limitation

Section 5524.1 - Limitation and application for asbestos claims (Unconstitutional)

Section 5525 - Four year limitation

Section 5526 - Five year limitation

Section 5527 - Six year limitation

Section 5527.1 - Ten year limitation

Section 5527.2 - Mesne profits

Section 5527.3 - Reimbursement

Section 5528 - Fifteen year limitation

Section 5529 - Twenty year limitation

Section 5530 - Twenty-one year limitation

Section 5531 - No limitation

Section 5532 - Absence or concealment

Section 5533 - Infancy, insanity or imprisonment

Section 5534 - War

Section 5535 - Effect of other actions and proceedings

Section 5536 - Construction projects

Section 5537 - Land surveying

Section 5538 - Landscape architecture

Section 5539 - Real estate appraisals

Section 5551 - No limitation applicable

Section 5552 - Other offenses

Section 5553 - Summary offenses involving vehicles

Section 5554 - Tolling of statute

Section 5571 - Appeals generally

Section 5571.1 - Appeals from ordinances, resolutions, maps, etc

Section 5572 - Time of entry of order

Section 5573 - Effect of application for rehearing

Section 5574 - Effect of application for amendment to qualify for interlocutory appeal