Is a land surveyor responsible for land owner installs a driveway or the property line?

The land was vacant when the survey was done

Is a land surveyor responsible for land owner installs a driveway or the property line?
I am not quite sure about the question.. do you mean is the land surveyor responsible for a driveway that encroaches over a property line?





The land survey establishes the boundary line (or the drive way line if he has been asked to do the construction work). If the driveway is then built in the wrong location there are several possibilities





1) The surveyor did the stakeout wrong and marked the wrong location. If that is the case he is potentially liable for all of the things that happen because of his error





2) The survyeor staked it out right but the owner built it wrong. The surveyor is not liable as long as he can prove it was done right.





3) The surveyor staked it out correctly, but the boundary line changed after the stakeout. The surveyor has no liablility due to the change in the boundary, but this presumes he was right in the original stakeout..





hope that helped..
Reply:The land surveyor is responsible only for what he is hired to do: produce a survey or stake property lines. He is not responsible for the owner's actions.
Reply:land surveyor locates property line. Any building on lot needs a building permit which needs a drawing.
Reply:No. How is that even possible unless the survey was grossly inaccurate?
Reply:Unless the survey was inaccurate, and posts were put where they shouldn't have been. No.