Ontario. Legal and Survey Standards Branch

• Legal and Survey Standards Branch

Established in 1976 with the creation of the Real Property Registration Branch, the Legal and Surveys Standard Branch was a merger of the Property Law Branch with the Legal Surveys Branch. The Branch was headed by a Director who held the statutory role of Director of Titles and reported to the Executive Director of the Property Rights Division. The legal and surveys functions were split off again in 1985 with the reorganization and establishment of the Registration Division. The legal function for real property was reunited with that for personal property and merged with the legal section for the Registrar General Branch in a reconstituted Property Law Branch (ocasionally called the Property Law Section.) Responsibility for surveys standards, boundaries issues and financial assistance under the Survey Fund was moved to the new Surveys, Mapping and Title Examination Office of the Real Property Registration Branch .

The Legal and Survey Standards Branch provided legal advice and support to the Property Rights Division concerning legislation, regulations and other legal issues relating to land ownership and transfer, including conducting audit reviews of land registry office practices administering statutes relating to real and personal property. It processed applications for certification of title, and for conversion of title from the land registry system to the land titles system, provided quality control for surveys, plans and description, and it confirmed the true location of lost or obliterated boundary lines. Finally the Branch provided financial assistance to property owners carrying out surveys under the Land Titles Survey Fund for special circumstances.

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Ontario Government Telephone Directories; KWIC Index to Government Services

Not in Canadiana Authorities 24-12-1996

Archivist(s):
Dirks