Bill 56 — A Bnl To Amend 'The Alberta Surveys Act (Legislature 15, Session 2)

L15 S2 1496

Alberta — Bills

No. 56 2nd Session, 15th Legislature, Alberta 13 Elizabeth II BILL 56 A Bnl to amend 'The Alberta Surveys Act HON. MR. TAYLOR Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1965

I. This Bill amends

chapter 3,27 of the Revised Statutes.

Section 2, clause (

c) pr~"~ently re¥l§s,: (c) "Director of Surveys" means the Director of Surveys appointed under The Surveys and Expropriation Act; The Surveys and Expropriation Act will be repealed by the proposed new Public Works Act and the provision for appointment of the Director in

section 4 of that Act is moved to this Act.

Section 52 sets out the manner of marking road surveys. Subsection (4) reads:

(4) Each point marked by an iron post as provided in this

section shall be further marked by digging four pits, each two feet square and twelve inches deep, and shall be so placed that two straight lines drawn through the iron post at right angles to one another shall each pass through the centres of two of the pits, and the inside edge of each pit shall lie on the side of a square whose sides are six feet long and whose centre is the iron post.

Section 86, clause (

a) reads: 86. The Lieutenant Governor in Council (

a) may appoint a Director of Surveys to carry out this Act and· the regulations or orders in council made under it, under the direction and control of; the. Minister. 5~ See clauses 2. aJ;ld. ~ of this Bill.

BILL No. 56 of 1965

An Act to amend 'The Alberta Surveys Act (Assented to , 1965) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta enacts as follows: ' 1. The Alberta Surveys Act is hereby amended.

Section 2 is amended by striking out clause (

c) and by substituting the following: (c) "Director of Surveys" means the Director of Surveys appointed under

section 87 a;

Section 52 is amended by adding the following sub section:

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), the Director of Surveys may authorize the use of such other type of supple mentary mark as he considers suitable.

Section 86 is amended by striking out clause (a). 5. The following

section is added after

section 87: 87a.

(1) Subject to The Public Service Act, 1962, there may be appointed a qualified surveyor as Director of Sur veys wh'O shall administer this Act and the regulations and orders made hereunder, under the direction and supervision of the Minister.

(2) The Director 'Of Surveys shall (

a) make or cause to be made or have direction over the execution of surveys required by the Minister 'Or hy any Act, and (

b) prepare or cause t'O be prepared and issued the maps and plans required by all Departments of the (j{)v- ernment.

6. Establishment of survey control areas in municipalities. 7. Commencement of Act 2

6. The following

section is added after

section 92: 92a.

(1) In this

section "survey control" means the establishment 'and maintenance of a series of interrelated survey monuments to which existing and subsequent surveys performed in a,ccordance with this Act may be related.

(2) The Minister may (

a) enter into an agreement with a municipality for the purpose of providing survey c.ontrol under the direc tion .of the Director of Surveys within all or part of that municipality and specify the manner in which the costs are to be distributed between the Pr.ovince and the municipality, and (

b) instruct the Director .of Surveys to provide survey contr.ol in any area of the Province where he deems it necessary for the orderly development of existing and subsequent surveys performed in accordance with this A·ct, and (

c) instruct the Director of Surveys to prepare such maps, plans and records as may be required to facilitate the development .of survey control, and (

d) upon c.onfirmation by the Director of ISurveys of such maps, plans and records, by order, declare the area to bea survey control area and from time to time alter the boundaries of it.

(3) The survey control within a surveyc.ontrol area may be ,cons,idered as evidence .of the P.osition of a lost monument or an obliterated monument.

(4) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may prescribe, by regulation, the manner in which survey.ors shall relate surveys performed by them in accordance with this Act to the survey control. 7. This Act comes int.o force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

No. 56 SECOND SESSION FIFTEENTH LEGISLATURE 13 E:LIZA'BET'H II 1965 BILL

An Act to amend The Alberta Surveys Act Received and read the First time ............................ . Second time. Third time. HON. MR. TAYLOR Title: 1965 (15th, 2nd) Bill 56,

An Act to amend The Alberta Surveys Act

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