(1) The term “engineer” as used in this chapter shall mean a professional engineer as hereinafter defined.
(2) The term “professional engineer” within the meaning and intent of this chapter shall mean a person who has met the qualifications as required under this chapter and who has been issued a license as a professional engineer.
(3) The term “engineer intern” as used in this chapter shall mean a candidate for licensure as a professional engineer who has met the qualifications as required under this chapter and who has been enrolled as an engineer intern.
(4) The term “practice of engineering” within the meaning and intent of this chapter shall mean any service or creative work the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to such services or creative work as consultation, investigation, expert technical testimony evaluation, planning, design, and design coordination of engineering works and systems, planning the use of land, air and water, performing engineering surveys and studies, and the review of construction for the purpose of monitoring compliance with drawings and specifications; any of which embraces such engineering services or work, either public or private, in connection with any utilities, water resources, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, projects, communication systems, transportation systems, industrial or consumer products or equipment of control systems; or engineering services or work of a communications, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, geotechnical (including geology and geohydrology incidental to the practice of engineering), geological, environmental, or thermal nature, insofar as they involve safeguarding life, health or property, and including such other professional services as may be necessary to the planning, progress and completion of any engineering services.
Design coordination includes the review and coordination of those technical submissions prepared by others, including as appropriate and without limitation, consulting engineers, surveyors, architects, landscape architects and other professionals working under direction of the engineer.
Engineering surveys include all survey activities required to support the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of engineered projects but exclude the practice of surveying as defined in this chapter.
(5) The term “surveyor” or “professional surveyor”, within the meaning and intent of this chapter, shall mean a person who has met the qualifications as required under this chapter and who has been issued a license as a professional surveyor.
(6) The term “surveyor intern”, as used in this chapter, shall mean a candidate for licensure as required under this chapter and who has been enrolled as a surveyor intern.
(7) The “practice of surveying”, within the meaning and intent of this chapter, shall mean providing, or offering to provide, professional services such as consultation, investigation, testimony evaluation, expert technical testimony, planning, mapping, assembling and interpreting reliable scientific measurements and information relative to the location, size, shape or physical features of the earth, improvements on the earth, the space above the earth, or any part of the earth, utilization and development of these facts and interpretation into an orderly survey map, plan or report and in particular, the retracement of or the creating of land boundaries and descriptions of real property. The practice of surveying includes, but is not limited to, the following:(a) Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing, laying out or retracing any property boundary or easement; (b) Making a survey for the subdivision of any tract of land, including rights -of-way and easements;(c) Determining, by the use of principles of surveying, the position for any survey monument or reference point; or setting, resetting or replacing any such monument or reference point, commonly known as control surveys; and/or(d) Creating, preparing or modifying electronic computerized data, including land information systems and geographic systems, relative to the performance of the activities in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this subsection (7).
(a) Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing, laying out or retracing any property boundary or easement;
(b) Making a survey for the subdivision of any tract of land, including rights -of-way and easements;
(c) Determining, by the use of principles of surveying, the position for any survey monument or reference point; or setting, resetting or replacing any such monument or reference point, commonly known as control surveys; and/or
(d) Creating, preparing or modifying electronic computerized data, including land information systems and geographic systems, relative to the performance of the activities in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this subsection (7).
(8) The term “responsible charge” as used in this chapter shall mean direct control and personal supervision of engineering or surveying work, as the case may be. A licensee is in responsible charge of engineering or surveying work if a licensee:(a) Has and exercises the authority to review and to change, reject or approve both the work in progress and the final work product, through examination, evaluation, communication and direction throughout the development of the work;(b) Is personally aware of the project’s scope, needs, parameters, limitations and special requirements;(c) Is capable of answering questions relevant to the engineering or surveying decisions made as part of the services provided, in sufficient detail to demonstrate reasonable knowledge of and proficiency in the work; and(d) Accepts full responsibility for the work.
(a) Has and exercises the authority to review and to change, reject or approve both the work in progress and the final work product, through examination, evaluation, communication and direction throughout the development of the work;
(b) Is personally aware of the project’s scope, needs, parameters, limitations and special requirements;
(c) Is capable of answering questions relevant to the engineering or surveying decisions made as part of the services provided, in sufficient detail to demonstrate reasonable knowledge of and proficiency in the work; and
(d) Accepts full responsibility for the work.
(9) The term “firm,” as used in this chapter, shall mean a business entity that offers professional engineering or surveying services to the public of its licensed personnel who are either employees, officers, directors, partners, members or managers. A business entity may be formed as either:(a) A professional service corporation;(b) A corporation;(c) A partnership, including limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships; or(d) A limited liability company.
(a) A professional service corporation;
(b) A corporation;
(c) A partnership, including limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships; or
(d) A limited liability company.
(10) The term “board” as used in this chapter shall mean the Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors provided for by this chapter.