Alberta Land Surveyors' Association

If a practitioner wishes to establish a branch office, the practitioner shall obtain the prior approval of Council.

• The branch office must be under the direct personal supervision, direction and control of a designated resident Alberta land surveyor who shall be present at the office at all material times, and shall ensure that all surveying or land surveying advice and all services shall be provided by or under the personal supervision, direction and control of the designated resident Alberta Land Surveyor.
• An Alberta land surveyor may act as a designated Alberta Land Surveyor for only one business office (whether a primary office or a branch office) at any given time.

• Corporations
• Partnerships

Corporations currently holding an APEGA Permit to Practice

• the ownership of the majority of its voting shares is vested in one or more Canadian land surveyors and one or more professional engineers, or in a corporation or corporations the majority of whose voting shares are vested in one or more Canadian land surveyors or one or more professional engineers, and the voting shares are distributed to the Canadian land surveyors, or their corporations, and the professional engineers, or their corporations, on a basis which will bear a reasonable relationship to the distribution of the practice of the corporation as between the practice of engineering and any surveying that is under the control of a land surveyor but
  • Canadian land surveyors or their corporations shall hold at least 10% of the voting shares and professional engineers or their corporations shall hold at least a further 10% of the voting shares of the corporation and
  •  if the Council is not satisfied as to the distribution of the voting shares between the Canadian land surveyors or their corporations and the professional engineers or their corporations it shall refer the matter to a committee composed of Canadian land surveyors and professional engineers for a decision by that committee
• a majority of the directors of the corporation are Canadian land surveyors and professional engineers
• it holds a valid permit from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta to engage in the practice of engineering
• it has one or more full-time permanent employees who are Alberta land surveyors and who are qualified by training and experience in the fields of land surveying in which the corporation intends to engage or offer to engage and will assume personal supervision, direction, and control of the practice of land surveying in which the corporation engages

Corporations not currently holding an APEGA Permit to Practice

• the ownership of the majority of its voting shares is vested in one or more Canadian land surveyors, or in a corporation or corporations the majority of whose voting shares are vested in one or more Canadian land surveyors
• a majority of its directors are Canadian land surveyors unless there are only 2 directors in which case one of them shall be a Canadian land surveyor
• it has one or more full-time permanent employees who are Alberta land surveyors and who are qualified by training and experience in the fields of surveying in which the corporation intends to engage or offer to engage and will assume personal supervision, direction, and control of the practice of surveying in which the corporation engages

Partnerships

• the partnership has at least one full-time partner who is a Canadian land surveyor or surveyor’s corporation or a corporation or corporations the majority of whose voting shares are vested in one or more Canadian land surveyor
• the partnership has an individual who is an Alberta land surveyor and is a partner or full-time employee who will assume personal supervision, direction, and control of the practice of surveying in which the partnership engages
• a controlling interest of the partnership is vested in one or more Canadian land surveyors or surveyor’s corporations or in a corporation or corporations, the majority of whose voting shares are owned by one or more Canadian land surveyors

Professional Liability Insurance in amounts not less than $500,000 per loss and $500,000 per policy period. 

• The council must approve the name of all surveyor's corporations and partnerships that intend to engage in the practice of land surveying in Alberta
• The name shall not be self-laudatory or misleading to the public and must be appropriate and maintain the dignity of the profession
• The name may not be similar to an existing or former surveyor's corporation or partnership
• Entities that use a trade name must have the name approved by the Council if the trade name uses any words not contained in the official name of the entity

• The corporation as one or more full-time employees who are Alberta land surveyors and who are qualified by training and experience in the fields of land surveying in which the corporation intends to engage or offer to engage and will assume personal supervision, direction and control of the practice of land surveying in which the corporation engages
• The partnership has an individual who is an Alberta land surveyor and is a partner or full-time employee who will assume personal supervision, direction, and control of the practice of surveying in which the partnership engages