1 Definitions
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(a) "agreement of transfer" mean s the agreement set out in the
Schedule to The Alberta Natural Resources Act, SA 1930
c21, and all amendments to that agreement;
(b) "Alberta Township System of Survey" means the system of
survey described in sections 18 to 28;
(c) "base line" means a base lin e as described in section 23(2);
(d) "cadastral mapping" mean s the portion of the mapping
system that deals with the land survey system;
(e) "correction line" means a co rrection line as described in
section 23(3) and (4);
(f) "Director" means the Dir ector of Surveys designated
pursuant to section 4;
(g) repealed 2022 c16 s16;
(h) "identifier" means a label o n a map that corresponds to a
description contained in the mapping system;
(i) "land-related information sy stems network" means a series
of data bases co-ordinated by the Director that contain
information on land or related to land and that are
compatible because all the data bases
(i) contain geospatially positioned data elements, and
(ii) adhere to common design standards;
(j) "Land Titles Office" means a Land Titles Office established
pursuant to the Land Titles Act;
(k) "legal subdivision" means legal subdivision as described i n
section 28;
(l) "mapping system" means a series of data bases co-ordinated
by the Director that cover a range of accuracy and detail
levels, that contain at least the positions of points, lines and
areas and their identifiers, and that depict the survey control,
land survey system, hydrographic features, relief features,
municipal boundaries and transportation features;
(m) "Metis patented land" means patented land as defined in the
Metis Settlements Act;
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(n) "Metis Settlements Land Registry" means the Metis
Settlements Land Registry established under the Metis
Settlements Act;
(o) "Minister" means the Minist er determined under section 16
of the Government Organization Act as the Minister
responsible for this Act;
(p) "monument" means a brass tablet, iron post, wooden post,
mound, pit or trench, or anything else used by a surveyor to
mark a boundary, corner or line;
(q) "municipality" means a city, town, village, municipal
district, specialized municipality, improvement district,
special area or Metis settlement;
(r) "official plan" means a plan confirmed pursuant to section
33;
(r.1) "provincial reference s ystem" means a collection of
standards, models, data products and infrastructure used to
support geospatial positioning in Alberta;
(s) "public land" means land vested in the Crown in right of
Alberta;
(t) "Registrar" means
(i) in respect of surveys of a nd other matters affecting Metis
patented land, the Registrar of the Metis Settlements
Land Registry, and
(ii) in respect of surveys of a nd other matters affecting all
other land, the Registrar of Land Titles;
(u) "survey control" means a ne twork of interrelated survey
control markers whose co-ordinate positions form part of the
provincial reference system;
(v) "survey control marker" means a mark, other than a
monument, whose co-ordinate position is confirmed by the
Director under section 8;
(w) "surveyor" means an Alberta land surveyor as defined in th e
Land Surveyors Act;
(x) "this Act" includes the regulations made under this Act.
RSA 2000 cS-26 s1;2006 c21 s26;2022 c16 s16
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