This chapter constitutes the chapter on professional engineers. It may be cited as the Professional Engineers Act....
Professional engineer, within the meaning and intent of this act, refers to a person engaged in the professional practice of rendering service or creative work requiring education,...
Civil engineer as used in this chapter means a professional engineer in the branch of civil engineering and refers to one who practices or offers to practice civil engineering in any...
Electrical engineer as used in this chapter means a professional engineer in the branch of electrical engineering and refers to one who practices or offers to practice electrical engineering in...
Mechanical engineer as used in this chapter means a professional engineer in the branch of mechanical engineering and refers to one who practices or offers to practice mechanical engineering...
The phrase responsible charge of work means the independent control and direction, by the use of initiative, skill, and independent judgment, of the investigation or design...
Supervision of the construction of engineering structures means the periodic observation of materials and completed work to determine general compliance with plans, specifications,...
In order to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, no person shall practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless appropriately registered or...
(a) The Department of Consumer Affairs, in conjunction with the board, and the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall review the engineering branch titles specified...
A subordinate is any person who assists a registered professional engineer in the practice of professional engineering without assuming responsible charge of work....
(a) An engineer who voluntarily, without compensation or expectation of compensation, provides structural inspection services at the scene of a declared national, state, or local emergency...
Any reference in any law or regulation to a registered engineer, or to a registered civil, electrical, or mechanical engineer, is deemed to refer to a licensed engineer, or to a...
(a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, which consists of 13 members. (b) Any reference in any law or regulation to the...
Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions....
Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States. Five members shall be registered under this chapter. One member shall be licensed under the Land Surveyors' Act,...
All appointments to the board shall be for a term of four years. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term. Each appointment thereafter shall be for a...
The Governor may remove any member of the board for misconduct, incompetency or neglect of duty....
The board shall appoint an executive officer at a salary to be fixed and determined by the board with the approval of the Director of Finance. This section shall become inoperative on July...
The executive officer shall keep a complete record of all applications for registration and the board's action thereon and, once every two years, shall prepare a roster showing the...
(a) The board may adopt rules and regulations consistent with law and necessary to govern its action. These rules and regulations shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions...
The board may, by regulation, define the scope of each branch of professional engineering other than civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering for which registration is provided...
Any member of the board may administer oaths and may take testimony and proofs concerning all matters within the board's jurisdiction....
The board shall adopt and have an official seal which shall be affixed to all certificates of registration....
Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....
The board may establish one or more technical advisory committees to advise and assist the board with respect to the following: (1) Application review and verification for any...
Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be appointed by the board and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Each committee shall be composed of no more than five members....
Except as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 6736.1, each member of each technical advisory committee shall be an expert in the branch of engineering within the committee's...
All the members of each technical advisory committee shall serve without compensation but shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....
Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be granted the same immunity as is granted to a public employee pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 820) of Chapter 1 of Part...
The board, when it deems necessary, may establish professional engineers review committees to hear all matters assigned by the board, including, but not limited to, any contested case which...
The board, when it deems necessary, may establish professional engineers review committees to hear all matters assigned by the board, including, but not limited to, any contested case which...
Each review committee shall consist of no fewer than three registered professional engineers appointed by the board. Each member of a committee shall have the same qualifications and...
Each member of a committee shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103 of this code....
Except as otherwise provided in this article, all hearings which are conducted by a committee shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with...
At the conclusion of any hearing which is conducted by a committee, the committee shall prepare a proposed decision, in such form that it may be adopted by the board as the decision in...
The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code, rules...
Each member of a professional engineers review committee or other board-appointed committee and any board-appointed representative of the board shall be granted the same immunity as is granted...
In order to safeguard life, health, property and public welfare, any person, either in a public or private capacity, except as in this chapter specifically excepted, who practices, or...
It is the intent of the Legislature that the registration requirements that are imposed upon private sector professional engineers and engineering partnerships, firms, or corporations...
Civil engineering embraces the following studies or activities in connection with fixed works for irrigation, drainage, waterpower, water supply, flood control, inland...
(e) The preparation or submission of designs, plans and specifications and engineering reports. (f) Coordination of the work of professional, technical, or special consultants. ...
Civil engineering also includes the practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, all of the following: (a) Locates, relocates, establishes, reestablishes,...
Any registered civil engineer may offer to practice, procure, and offer to procure, land surveying work incidental to his or her civil engineering practice, even though he or she is...
A registered civil engineer may also practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, construction project management services, including, but not limited...
If a registered civil engineer provides construction management services pursuant to Section 6731.3, Section 6703.1 shall not limit the responsibility of the engineer for the...
(a) Electrical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.1 that embraces studies or activities relating to the generation, transmission, and...
Mechanical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.2 that deals with engineering problems relating to generation, transmission, and utilization of energy...
It is unlawful for anyone other than a professional engineer licensed under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal or stamp of...
Any person who has been granted permission to use the title consulting engineer pursuant to legislation enacted at the 1963, 1965, or 1968 Regular Session is exempt from the...
Any person who possesses a valid certificate to practice photogrammetry issued to him under the provisions of Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8700) of this division may apply for,...
(a) Any person who has received from the board a registration or license in corrosion, manufacturing, quality, or safety engineering, and who holds a valid registration or license...
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who has applied for registration as a corrosion, quality, or safety engineer, and who has completed the written examination in...
It is unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal after the certificate of the registrant, named thereon, has expired or has...
Any person practices civil engineering when he professes to be a civil engineer or is in responsible charge of civil engineering work....
Any person practices electrical engineering when he professes to be an electrical engineer or is in responsible charge of electrical engineering work....
Any person practices mechanical engineering when he professes to be a mechanical engineer or is in responsible charge of mechanical engineering work....
(a) All civil (including structural and geotechnical) engineering plans, calculations, specifications, and reports (hereinafter referred to as documents) shall be prepared by, or under...
The signing of civil engineering plans, specifications, reports, or documents which relate to the design of fixed works shall not impose a legal duty or responsibility upon the person...
(a) All electrical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports (hereinafter referred to as documents) prepared by, or under the responsible charge of, a...
(a) All mechanical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports (hereinafter referred to as documents) prepared by, or under the responsible charge of, a...
The use of the word certify or certification by a registered professional engineer in the practice of professional engineering or land surveying constitutes an expression...
If a registered civil engineer is required to provide as built, as constructed, or record plans for improvements or grading, which plans show changes during the construction process,...
No person shall use the title, structural engineer, unless he is a registered civil engineer in this State and, furthermore, unless he has been found qualified as a structural engineer...
(a) On or after July 1, 1984, no person shall use the title, soil engineer, unless he or she is a registered civil engineer in this state and he or she has been found qualified as...
An architect, who holds a certificate to practice architecture in this State under the provisions of Chapter 3 of Division 3 of this code insofar as he practices architecture in...
(a) This chapter does not prohibit any person from preparing plans, drawings, or specifications for any of the following: (1) Single-family dwellings of woodframe construction not more than...
Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a civil engineer, registered under the provisions of this chapter, from practicing or offering to practice any engineering in connection...
A contractor licensed under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 is exempt from the provisions of this chapter relating to the practice of electrical or mechanical engineering...
(a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more civil, electrical, or mechanical engineers from practicing or offering to practice within the scope of their registration, civil,...
Officers and employees of the United States of America practicing solely as such officers or employees are exempt from registration under the provisions of this chapter....
A subordinate to a civil, electrical or mechanical engineer registered under this chapter, or a subordinate to a civil, electrical or mechanical engineer exempted from registration...
Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation is exempt from registration under the provisions of this chapter who meets all the following: (a) Is a nonresident of the State of California. ...
Any person, firm or corporation holding a license as real estate broker or real estate salesman, when making appraisals and valuations of real estate properties, while engaged in the...
This chapter does not affect Chapter 15 of Division 3 of this code, relating to surveyors, except insofar as this chapter is expressly made applicable....
This chapter does not require registration for the purpose of practicing civil engineering, by an individual, a member of a firm or partnership, or by an officer of a corporation on or...
This chapter does not prohibit any person, firm or corporation from furnishing, either alone or with subcontractors, labor and materials, with or without plans,...
Plans, specifications, reports and documents relating to communication lines and equipment prepared by employees of communications companies which come under the jurisdiction of...
(a) This chapter, except for those provisions that apply to civil engineers and civil engineering, shall not apply to the performance of engineering work by a manufacturing,...
(a) Notwithstanding Section 6747, this chapter applies to engineering work approved by a person employed by a privately or publicly owned utility in the planning,...
(a) A professional engineer shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional engineering services to a client pursuant to this chapter. The written contract shall be...
An application for registration as a professional engineer or certification as an engineer-in-training shall be made to the board on the prescribed form, with all statements made therein...
(a) The applicant for certification as an engineer-in-training shall comply with all of the following: (1) Not have committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial of...
The board may consider the professional experience and education acquired by applicants outside the United States which in the opinion of the board is equivalent to the minimum requirements...
The board shall by rule establish the criteria to be used for approving curricula of schools of engineering....
An applicant for registration as a civil engineer must have gained his experience under the direction of a civil engineer legally qualified to practice....
With respect to applicants for registration as professional engineers, the board: (a) Shall give credit as qualifying experience of four years, for graduation with an engineering degree from...
All applicants shall be given equal credit for engineering experience in the armed forces of United States as with any other comparable engineering experience....
Examination for registration shall be held at such times and places as the board shall determine. The second division of the examination for all branches specified in Section 6732 shall...
(a) Examination duration and composition shall be designed to conform to the following general principle: The first division of the examination shall test the applicant's knowledge...
(a) The second division of the examination for registration as a professional engineer shall include questions to test the applicant's knowledge of state laws and the board's rules...
(a) An applicant for certification as an engineer-in-training shall, upon making a passing grade in that division of the examination prescribed in Section 6755, relating to...
Applicants who profess to be qualified in more than one branch of engineering shall be required to file an application for each branch in which they wish to be registered....
An applicant failing in an examination may be examined again upon filing a new application and the payment of the application fee fixed by this chapter....
The board, upon application therefor, on its prescribed form, and the payment of the application fee fixed by this chapter, may issue a certificate of registration as a...
A temporary authorization to practice engineering in a branch defined by this chapter may be granted for a specific project, upon application and payment of the fee prescribed in Section 6799,...
In determining the qualifications of an applicant for registration, a majority vote of the board is required....
Any applicant who has passed the second division examination and has otherwise qualified hereunder as a professional engineer, shall have a certificate of registration issued to him or her...
(a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee established by Section 6799, a retired license (registration), to an engineer who has been licensed by the board for a minimum...
Application for authority to use the title structural engineer, soil engineer, soils engineer, or geotechnical engineer shall be made to the board on forms prescribed by it and shall...
An applicant to use the title structural engineer shall have successfully passed a written examination that incorporates a national examination for structural engineering by...
If an applicant for registration as a professional engineer or certification as an engineer-in-training, or for authorization to use the title structural engineer or soil engineer, is...
Each professional engineer registered under this chapter shall, upon registration, obtain a seal or stamp of a design authorized by the board bearing the registrant's name, number of his or...
A duplicate certificate of registration to replace one lost, destroyed, or mutilated may be issued subject to the rules and regulations of the board. The duplicate certificate fee fixed...
An unsuspended, unrevoked and unexpired certificate and endorsement of registry made under this chapter, is presumptive evidence in all courts and places that the person named therein...
The board may receive and investigate complaints against registered professional engineers, and make findings thereon. By a majority vote, the board may reprove, suspend for a period not...
The board may receive and investigate complaints against engineers-in-training, and make findings thereon. By a majority vote, the board may revoke the certificate of...
The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5...
The board may reissue a certificate of registration, certification, or authority, to any person whose certificate has been revoked if a majority of the members of the board vote in favor...
A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions and duties of a...
The board shall have the power, duty, and authority to investigate violations of the provisions of this chapter....
It is the duty of the respective members of the legal system to prosecute all persons charged with the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter. It is the duty of the...
Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Who, unless he or she is exempt from registration under this chapter, practices or offers to practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering...
Any person who violates any provision of subdivisions (a) to (i), inclusive, of Section 6787 in connection with the offer or performance of engineering services for the repair of damage...
Certificates of registration as a professional engineer, and certificates of authority, shall be valid for a period of two years from the assigned date of renewal. Biennial renewals...
Within 60 to 90 days prior to the expiration of a certificate of registration or certificate of authority, the board shall mail to the registrant or authority holder a notice of...
Except as otherwise provided in this article, certificates of registration as a professional engineer, and certificates of authority may be renewed at any time within three years...
A suspended certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of the certificate, while it remains...
A revoked certificate is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration, the holder of the certificate, as...
Certificates of registration as a professional engineer, and certificates of authority to use the title structural engineer, soil engineer, or consulting engineer that are not...
Once an expired or delinquent certificate of registration or certificate of authority is renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued pursuant to Section 6796 or 6796.3, all the...
The department shall receive and account for all money derived from the operation of this chapter and, at the end of each month, shall report such money to the State Controller and shall pay it...
The board may make refunds of all fees in accordance with Section 158 of this code....
The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (a) The fee for filing each application for registration...