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§59-475.2.
§59-475.2.
As used in Section 475.1 et seq. of this title:
1. "Engineer" means a person who, by reason of special knowledge and
use of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences and the
principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, acquired by
engineering education and engineering experience, is qualified to
engage in the practice of engineering;
2. "Professional engineer" means a person who has been duly registered
and licensed as a professional engineer as provided in Section 475.1
et seq. of this title;
3. "Engineer intern" means a person who complies with the requirements
for education and experience and has passed an examination in the
fundamental engineering subjects, as provided in Section 475.1 et seq.
of this title;
4. "Practice of engineering" means 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, evaluation, planning and
design of engineering works and systems, planning the engineering use
of land and water, teaching of advanced engineering subjects or
courses related thereto, engineering research, engineering surveys,
engineering studies, and the inspection or review of construction for
the purposes of assuring compliance with drawings and specifications;
any of which embraces such services or work, either public or private,
in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines,
equipment, processes, work systems, projects, and industrial or
consumer products or equipment of a mechanical, electrical, chemical,
environmental, hydraulic, pneumatic 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.
Engineering surveys include all survey activities required to support
the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance and
operation of engineered projects, but exclude the surveying of real
property for the establishment of land boundaries, rights-of-way,
easements and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of the
public land survey system.
A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice
engineering, within the meaning and intent of Section 475.1 et seq. of
this title, who practices any branch of the profession of engineering;
or who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in
any other way represents himself to be a professional engineer, or
through the use of some other title implies that he is a professional
engineer or that he is registered under Section 475.1 et seq. of this
title; or who holds himself out as able to perform, or who does
perform any engineering service or work or any other service
designated by the practitioner which is recognized as engineering;
5. "Land surveyor" means a person who, by reason of special knowledge
in the technique of measuring land and use of the basic principles of
mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences and the
relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence and all requisite
to surveying of real property, acquired by education and experience,
is qualified to engage in the practice of land surveying;
6. "Professional land surveyor" means a person who has been duly
registered and licensed as a professional land surveyor as provided in
Section 475.1 et seq. of this title;
7. "Land surveyor intern" means a person who complies with the
requirements for education and experience, and has passed an
examination in the fundamental land surveying subjects, as provided in
Section 475.1 et seq. of this title;
8. a. "Practice of land surveying" means any service or work, the
adequate performance of which involves the application of special
knowledge of the principles of mathematics, the related physical and
applied sciences, and the relevant requirements of law for adequate
evidence of land boundaries, to the act of measuring, locating, or
establishing lines, angles, elevations, natural and man-made features
in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings,
and on the beds of bodies of water for the purpose of determining
areas and volumes, geodetic positions, and the design, establishment,
and administration of land and geographic information systems, and the
collection, storage, analysis and management of data within those
systems; for the monumenting of property and land boundaries and for
the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions thereof, including
the topography; and for the preparation and perpetuation of maps,
record plats, field note records, and property descriptions that
represent these surveys.
b. A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice land
surveying, within the meaning and intent of Section 475.1 et seq. of
this title, who practices any branch of the profession of land
surveying or who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead,
card or in any other way represents himself or herself to be a
professional land surveyor or through the use of some other title
implies that he or she is a professional land surveyor or that he or
she is registered under Section 475.1 et seq. of this title or holds
himself or herself out as able to perform or who does perform any land
surveying service or work for which a license is required.
c. A person shall not be construed to practice or offer to practice
land surveying, within the meaning and intent of Section 475.1 et seq.
of this title, who merely acts as an agent of a purchaser of land
surveying services. Agents of a purchaser of land surveying services
include, but are not limited to, real estate agents and brokers, title
companies, attorneys providing title examination services, and persons
who or firms that coordinate the acquisition and use of land surveying
services. The coordination of land surveying services includes, but is
not limited to; sales and marketing of services, discussion of
requirements of land surveys, contracting to furnish land surveys,
review of land surveys, the requesting of revisions of land surveys,
and making any and all modifications to surveys with the written
consent of the land surveyor, and furnishing final revised copies to
the land surveyor showing all revisions, the distribution of land
surveys, and receiving payment for such services. These actions do not
constitute the practice of land surveying, and do not violate any part
of Section 475.1 through 475.22a of this title or the Bylaws and Rules
of the Oklahoma State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers
and Land Surveyors;
9. "Board" means the State Board of Registration for Professional
Engineers and Land Surveyors;
10. "Responsible charge" means direct control and personal supervision
of engineering work or land surveying;
11. "Rules of professional conduct for professional engineers and land
surveyors" means those rules promulgated by the Board; and
12. "Firm" means a corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint
stock association or private practitioner employing others.
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