ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Survey Act
28. Responsibility for protection of survey marks
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
28. Responsibility for protection of survey marks
(1)Every owner and occupier of land shall take all reasonable measures to protect every survey mark erected or placed on the land owned or occupied by him.(2)The owner and occupier of land shall pay to the Director the cost of restoring any survey mark erected or placed on the land owned or occupied by him (including the cost of any survey made for that purpose) which has been removed, destroyed, displaced, defaced, mutilated, obliterated or broken, or the position of which has been altered, unless any other person has been convicted of an offence under section 29 in respect of that survey mark; and such cost shall be a civil debt recoverable summarily.(3)Where a survey mark is common to the land of two or more owners and occupiers, the cost of restoring any such survey mark, as provided by subsection (2), shall be divided equally between them.