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ARTICLE 2S, PART 1: ENGINEERS
<br />PART1
<br />12-25-101. General provisions.
<br />In order to safeguard life, health, and property and to promote the public welfare, the practice of
<br />engineering is declared to be subject to regulation in the public interest. It shall be deemed that the right
<br />to engage in the practice of engineering is a privilege granted by the state through the state board of
<br />licensure for professional engineers and professional land surveyors, created in section 12 25-106; that
<br />the profession involves personal skill and presupposes a period of intensive preparation, internship, due
<br />examination, and admission; and that a professional engineer's license is solely such professional
<br />engineers own and is nontransferable.
<br />12-25-102. Definitions.
<br />As used in this part 1, unless the context otherwise requires:
<br />(1) "Board' means the state board of licensure for professional engineers and professional land
<br />surveyors, created in section 12-25-106.
<br />(2) "Certificate" means the media issued by the board to evidence licensing of a professional
<br />engineer.
<br />(3) "Engineer' means a person who, by reason of intensive preparation in the use of mathematics,
<br />chemistry, physics, and engineering sciences, including the principles and methods of engineering
<br />analysis and design, is qualfied to perform engineering work ~ defined in this part 1.
<br />(4) "Engineering" means anaysis or design work requiring intensive preparation and experience in
<br />the use of mathematics, chemistry, and physics and the engineering sciences.
<br />(5) "Engineering experience", in addition to the practice of engineering as defined in subsection (10)
<br />of this section, may include:
<br />(a) Up to four years of undergraduate engineering study, as approved by the board, in mathematics,
<br />basic science, engineering science, engineering design, and engineering practice;
<br />(b) Up to two years of graduate engineering study as approved by the board if the study results in the
<br />award of an advanced degree;
<br />(c) Teaching at the instructor level, or at a higher level, of courses in engineering sciehce, design, or
<br />engineering practice at a college or university offering an engineering curriculum of four or more years
<br />which is approved by the board or at a college offering courses transferable to aboard-approved college.
<br />This experience must result from afull-time position in teaching or teaching and research.
<br />(d) Engineering research, including that performed by a teacher at the instructor level or at a higher
<br />level. The research done by the teacher must be part of his assigned duties in a full-time position in
<br />teaching and research.
<br />(6) "Engineer-intern" means a person who has complied with the requirements of sections 12-25-111
<br />and 12-25-112 and is duly enrolled as an "engineer-intern".
<br />(7) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2004, p. 1293, § 8, effective May 28, 2004.)
<br />(8) "License" means the formal legal permission to practice engineering granted by the board.
<br />(9) Repealed.
<br />(10) (a) "Practice of engineering" means the performance for others of any professional service or
<br />creative work requiring engineering education, training, aril experience and the application of special
<br />knowledge of the mathematical and engineering sciences to such professional services or creative work,
<br />including corrsultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, and the observation of construction to
<br />evaluate compliance wdh plans and specifications in connection with the util¢ation of the forces,
<br />energies, and materials of nature in the development, production, and functioning of ertgineering
<br />processes, apparatus, machines, equipment, facilities, structures, buildings, works, or utilfies, or any
<br />combination or aggregations thereof, employed in or devoted to public or private enterprise or uses.
<br />- (b) An individual shall be construed as practicing or offering, to practice "professional engineering"
<br />wtthin the meaning and intent of this section if the individual, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement,
<br />letterhead, card, or in any other way, represents himself or herself to be a professional engineer, through
<br />the use of any other means implies that the individual is licensed under this part 1; or pertorms
<br />engineering services.
<br />(11) "Professional engineer' means an engineer duly licensed pursuant to this part 1.
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