James E. Garon & Associates, Inc.

James E. Garon & Associates, Inc. was founded as a Professional Land Surveying company in 1989. Our capabilities expanded to include Civil Engineering services for site planning and subdivision design in 2003. We are registered as Firm #10058400 with the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying.

The Registered Professional Land Surveyor (R.P.L.S.) in the State of Texas is a person authorized by law to practice land surveying by the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying.  Professional Surveying means the practice of land, boundary or property surveying. This includes any service or work which involves the application of special knowledge to determine;

• the location of real property boundaries,
• the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions of lands; or
• the preparation and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field note records, easements and real property descriptions that represent those surveys.. 

The Registered Professional Land Surveyor can, by use of your legal description and current surveying practices, determine and mark the boundaries of your property as set out in your deed. When contacting a surveyor to survey your property it is very helpful to have your deed or legal description of the property. The Registered Professional Land Surveyor is qualified to locate any visible natural or artificial features on your property; survey and prepare legal descriptions to assist in the sale or conveyance part of your property to others; survey and mark corners for boundary fences; determine the area or acreage of your property, prepare a plat (a map or plan) and certify to the accuracy of the plat by affixing his signature and seal of registration. In cases of disagreements over boundaries, he is qualified to prepare appropriate surveys, and testify as an expert witness in lawsuits concerning boundaries.

A survey should be obtained before puchasing real estate. Relying on past surveys of the property may not indicate subtle changes in fence locations, forgotten changes to the property or actions by the neighbors that might affect property line locations. In addition the survey is not certified to you and therefore the surveyor has no responsibilty to you to defend the survey should a conflict arise.