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A gap exists in law and practice with respect to calibrating terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) for legal boundary surveying. Laws, calibration infrastructure and calibration procedures have long existed for electronic distance measurement units used for boundary surveys, but laser scanners present new challenges. The aim of this paper is to present a practical, inexpensive procedure for validating laser scanner calibration and for verifying surface information extracted from terrestrial laser scanner data. The methodology verifies the TLS calibration parameters and extracted surfaces using total station measurements. The results indicate that total stations and TLS are complimentary tools and should both be used where complicated 3D boundaries exist.