Engineering; licenses; seals; incidental architectural

NMSA 1978, § 61-23-19 — under Article 23.

NMSA 1978, § 61-23-19

work; supplemental surveying work. (Repealed effective July 1, 2030.) A. The board shall issue licenses pursuant to the provisions of the Engineering and Surveying Practice Act. The board shall provide for the proper authentication of all documents. B. The board shall regulate the use of seals and may approve alternative authentications to physical or electronic seals. C. An engineer shall have the right to engage in activities properly classified as architecture insofar as it is incidental to the engineer's work as an engineer; provided that the engineer shall not make any representation as being an architect or as performing architectural services unless duly registered as such. D. The board shall recognize that there may be occasions when professional engineers need to obtain supplemental survey information for the planning and design of an engineering project. A professional engineer who has primary engineering responsibility and control of an engineering project may perform supplemental surveying work in obtaining data incidental to that project. Supplemental surveying work may be performed by a professional engineer only on a project for which the engineer is providing engineering design services. History: Laws 1987, ch. 336, § 19; 1993, ch. 218, § 14; 1999, ch. 259, § 13; 2012, ch. 46, § 5; 2017, ch. 42, § 7; 2019, ch. 220, § 4.