2006 New York Code - Right Of Entry For Professional Land Surveyor Performing Surveying Services

 
    §  9-105.  Right  of  entry  for professional land surveyor performing
  surveying  services.  1.  When  performing  surveying  services   as   a
  professional land surveyor licensed under article one hundred forty-five
  of  the  education  law,  the  land  surveyor  and  authorized agents or
  employees of any such land surveyor may enter upon or  cross  any  lands
  necessary  to  perform surveying services provided that the surveyor and
  authorized agents or employees of such land surveyor:
    a. makes reasonable efforts to notify the landowner or, in the case of
  a lease, the lessee thereof of his or her intention to  enter  upon  the
  owner's or lessee's land to make a land survey;
    b. operates upon such lands during reasonable hours;
    c. operates within a reasonable distance from the property line of the
  land being surveyed; and
    d.   carries   proper  identification  as  to  their  registration  or
  employment  and  displays  such  identification  to  anyone   requesting
  identification.
    2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to:
    a.  remove  civil  liability  for  damage  to land, chattels, crops or
  personal property; or
    b. authorized any professional  land  surveyor,  authorized  agent  or
  employee  to  enter any building or structure used as a residence or for
  storage.