Sections
44 entriesSection 6730Requires any person in California, whether acting publicly or privately, who practices or offers to practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering in…Section 6730.2Requires each state or local department or agency practicing a branch of professional engineering to designate at least one licensed engineer in…Section 6731Defines civil engineering to include specified studies and activities involving fixed works, including construction materials and economics, structural-construction supervision, natural forces, appraisals,…Section 6731.1Defines civil engineering also to include locating or retracing alignments or elevations for covered fixed works; determining earth-surface contours or fixed-object positions…Section 6731.2Allows a registered civil engineer to offer or procure incidental land-surveying work even without personal authorization to perform it, provided all surveying…Section 6731.3Allows a registered civil engineer, in either a public or private capacity, to practice or offer construction-project-management services. Covered services include construction-project…Section 6731.4Establishes that when a registered civil engineer provides the statutorily referenced construction-management services, the separate provision limiting responsibility does not restrict the…Section 6731.5Defines electrical engineering as the professional-engineering branch covering studies or activities involving generation, transmission, and use of electrical energy, including design and…Section 6731.6Defines mechanical engineering as the professional-engineering branch dealing with engineering problems involving generation, transmission, and use of thermal or mechanical energy; production…Section 6732Prohibits anyone other than a professional engineer licensed under the chapter from stamping or sealing plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents…Section 6732.1Exempts persons previously authorized under specified 1963, 1965, or 1968 legislation from the restriction on using “consulting engineer” while they remain in…Section 6732.2Allows a valid photogrammetry certificate holder to obtain authority to use “consulting engineer” by filing the board form and fees and proving…Section 6732.3Allows a person holding a valid board-issued license in corrosion, manufacturing, quality, or safety engineering to continue using the licensed branch title…Section 6732.4Requires registration in corrosion, quality, or safety engineering for applicants who completed the relevant written examination before January 1, 1999, and otherwise…Section 6732.5Allows the board to stop administering and issuing licenses in an engineering branch when its national examination is discontinued. Allows existing valid…Section 6733Prohibits stamping or sealing plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with a registrant’s seal after the registrant’s certificate has expired or…Section 6734Defines a person as practicing civil engineering when the person professes to be a civil engineer or is in responsible charge of…Section 6734.1Defines the practice of electrical engineering to include a person professing to be an electrical engineer or being in responsible charge of…Section 6734.2Defines a person as practicing mechanical engineering when the person professes to be a mechanical engineer or is in responsible charge of…Section 6735Requires civil engineering plans, calculations, specifications, and reports to be prepared by or under a licensed civil engineer’s responsible charge, include the…Section 6735.1Limits signing civil-engineering plans, specifications, reports, or documents for fixed-work design from itself creating a legal duty to supervise construction of the…Section 6735.3Requires electrical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports prepared by or under a licensed electrical engineer’s responsible charge to contain the engineer’s…Section 6735.4Requires mechanical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports prepared by or under a licensed mechanical engineer’s responsible charge to contain the engineer’s…Section 6735.5Defines a registered professional engineer’s use of “certify” or “certification” in professional engineering or land surveying as an expression of professional opinion…Section 6735.6Requires record or as-built plans by a registered civil engineer to rely on the engineer’s and agents’ field observations plus owner, contractor,…Section 6736Prohibits a person from using the title “structural engineer,” or any combination or abbreviation of those words, unless the person is a…Section 6736.1Prohibits use of “soil engineer,” “soils engineer,” or “geotechnical engineer” unless the person is a California civil engineer who applies and is…Section 6737Exempts a person holding a California architecture certificate from registration under the engineering chapter while the person is practicing architecture in its…Section 6737.1Allows unlicensed persons to prepare plans for woodframe single-family dwellings up to two stories plus basement, multiple dwellings up to four units…Section 6737.2Allows a civil engineer registered under the chapter to practice or offer to practice engineering that is connected with or supplementary to…Section 6737.3Exempts a licensed contractor from engineering-chapter restrictions on electrical or mechanical engineering when covered services are performed by or under the responsible…Section 6738Allows businesses to practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering when a licensed engineer is owner, partner, or officer in charge and services…Section 6739Exempts officers and employees of the United States from registration under the chapter when they practice solely in their official federal capacity.…Section 6740Exempts a person acting solely as a subordinate to a licensed or chapter-exempt civil, electrical, or mechanical engineer from engineering licensure requirements.…Section 6741Exempts a person, firm, partnership, or corporation from chapter registration only when all four conditions are met: nonresidency in California, legal qualification…Section 6742Exempts a licensed real estate broker or real estate salesperson from registration under the chapter when making appraisals and valuations of real…Section 6743Limits the engineering chapter from affecting the separate chapter governing surveyors unless an engineering-chapter provision expressly makes itself applicable. The surveyor chapter…Section 6744Exempts an individual, firm or partnership member, or corporate officer from civil-engineering registration when performing civil engineering on or in connection with…Section 6745Allows persons or entities to furnish labor and materials, with or without plans or related service documents and with subcontractors, for specified…Section 6746Exempts plans, specifications, reports, and documents concerning communication lines and equipment from the chapter when prepared by employees of communications companies under…Section 6746.1Exempts communications-industry employees and contractor employees working on communications equipment from the chapter’s professional-engineer licensing provisions other than those governing civil engineers.…Section 6747Exempts engineering work by a manufacturing, mining, public utility, research-and-development, or other industrial corporation and its employees from chapter provisions other than…Section 6748Requires the chapter to apply to engineering work approved by a utility employee in planning, designing, constructing, operating, or maintaining a utility-owned…Section 6749Requires a professional engineer to use a written contract, executed before work begins unless the client knowingly authorizes earlier work in writing,…