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§ 1161. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the board of professional engineering.
(2) "Professional engineering services" 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. This includes consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning and design of engineering works and systems, planning the use of land and water and accomplishing engineering surveys. Such services or work may be either for public or private purposes, and may be performed in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, projects, and equipment systems of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic or thermal nature, insofar as they involve safeguarding life, health or property.
(3) "Financial interest" means being:
(A) a licensed professional engineer; or
(B) a person who deals in goods and services which are uniquely related to the practice of engineering; or
(C) a person who has invested anything of value in a business which provides engineering services.
(4) "Practice of professional engineering" means providing, attempting to provide, or offering to provide professional engineering services for a fee or other consideration.
(5) A professional engineer in "private practice" means a professional engineer who owns, operates or is employed by a business entity which derives a substantial part of its income from providing professional engineering services to the public.
(6) "Professional engineer" means a person licensed under this chapter.
(7) "State" includes the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
(8) "Unauthorized practice" means conduct prohibited by section 1162 of this title and not exempted by section 1163 of this title. (Added 1983, No. 188 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 1991, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), § 24; 2009, No. 35, § 13.)
