California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 3 — Professions and Vocations Generally, Chapter 15 — Land Surveyors, Article 2 — Administration, Section 8710
(a) The Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists is vested with power to administer the provisions and requirements of this chapter, and may make and enforce rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to carry out its provisions.
(b) The board may adopt rules and regulations of professional conduct that are not inconsistent with state and federal law. The rules and regulations may include definitions of incompetence and negligence. Every person who holds a license or certificate issued by the board pursuant to this chapter, or a license or certificate issued to a civil engineer pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700), shall be governed by these rules and regulations.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2029, and as of that date is repealed. Notwithstanding any other law, the repeal of this section renders the board subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
Notes
Establishes the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists as administrator of the chapter and allows reasonably necessary regulations, including lawful professional-conduct rules defining incompetence and negligence that govern specified licensees and certificate holders. Limits the section through January 1, 2029, when repeal triggers legislative policy-committee review.
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