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
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 5532 - Absence or concealment
Section 5533 - Infancy, insanity or imprisonment
Section 5535 - Effect of other actions and proceedings
Section 5536 - Construction projects
Section 5538 - Landscape architecture
Section 5539 - Real estate appraisals
Section 5551 - No limitation applicable
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