542B.2 Terms defined. As used in the chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:1. 'Board' means the engineering and land surveying examining board provided by this chapter. 2. 'Design coordination' includes the review and coordination of technical submissions prepared by others, including as appropriate and without limitation, consulting engineers,architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, and other professionals working under thedirection of the engineer. 3. 'Engineer intern' means a person who passes an examination in the fundamental engineering subjects, but does not entitle the person to claim to be a professional engineer. 4. 'Engineering documents' includes all plans, specifications, drawings, and reports, if the preparation of such documents constitutes or requires the practice of engineering. 5. 'Engineering surveys' includes all survey activities required to support the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of engineeredprojects, but excludes the surveying of real property for the establishment of land boundaries,rights-of-way, easements, and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of thepublic land survey projects, but excludes the surveying of real property for the establishment of land boundaries,rights-of-way, easements, and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of thepublic land survey system. 6. 'In responsible charge' means having direct control of and personal supervision over any land surveying work or work involving the practice of engineering. One or more persons,jointly or severally, may be in responsible charge. 7. 'Land surveying documents' includes all plats, maps, surveys, and reports, if the preparation thereof constitutes or requires the practice of land surveying. 8. 'Land surveyor' means a person who engages in the practice of professional land surveying. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this chapter to 'landsurveyor' or 'land surveying' means 'professional land surveyor' or 'professional landsurveying'. 9. a. 'Practice of engineering' means any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience in theapplication of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences,such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design and design n, training, and experience in theapplication of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences,such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design and design coordination ofengineering works and systems, planning the use of land and water, performing engineeringsurveys and studies, and the review of construction for the purpose of monitoring compliancewith drawings and specifications, any of which embraces such services or creative work,either public or private, in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines,equipment, processes, work systems, projects, and industrial or consumer products orequipment of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or thermal nature, insofar asthey involve safeguarding life, health, or property, and including such other professionalservices as may be necessary to the planning, progress, and completion of the servicesidentified in this subsection. b. A person is construed to be engaged in the practice of engineering if the person does any of the following: (1) Practices any branch of the profession of engineering.(2) Makes a representation by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, aged in the practice of engineering if the person does any of the following: (1) Practices any branch of the profession of engineering.(2) Makes a representation by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, or other manner that the person is a professional engineer. (3) Uses any title which implies that the person is a professional engineer or that the person is certified under this chapter. (4) The person holds the person’s self out as able to perform, or who does perform, any service or work included in the practice of engineering. 10. a. 'Practice of land surveying' includes providing professional services such as consultation, investigation, testimony, evaluation, planning, mapping, assembling, andinterpreting reliable scientific measurements and information relative to the location ofproperty lines or boundaries, and the utilization, development, and interpretation of thesefacts into an orderly survey, plat, or map. The practice of land surveying includes but is notlimited to the following: (1) Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing, setting, or resetting of permanent Sat Dec 23 01:44:45 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 542B.2 (21, 0) §542B.2, PROFESSIONAL ited to the following: (1) Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing, setting, or resetting of permanent Sat Dec 23 01:44:45 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 542B.2 (21, 0) §542B.2, PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS 2 monumentation for any property line or boundary of any tract or parcel of land. Settingpermanent monuments constitutes an improvement to real property. (2) Making any survey for the division or subdivision of any tract or parcel of land.(3) Determination, by the use of the principles of land surveying, of the position for any permanent survey monument or reference point, or setting, resetting, or replacing any surveymonument or reference point excluding the responsibility of engineers pursuant to section314.8. (4) Creating and writing metes and bounds descriptions as defined in section 354.2.(5) Geodetic surveying for determination of the size and shape of the earth both horizontally and vertically for the precise positioning of permanent land survey monumentson the earth utilizing angular and linear measurements through spatially oriented sphericalgeometry. rth both horizontally and vertically for the precise positioning of permanent land survey monumentson the earth utilizing angular and linear measurements through spatially oriented sphericalgeometry. (6) Creation, preparation, or modification of electronic or computerized data, including land information systems and geographical information systems, relative to the performanceof the activities identified in subparagraphs (1) through (5). b. This subsection does not prohibit a professional engineer from practicing any aspect of the practice of engineering. A land surveyor is not prohibited from performing engineeringsurveys as defined in the practice of engineering. c. A person is construed to be engaged in or offering to be engaged in the practice of land surveying if the person does any of the following: (1) Engages in land surveying.(2) Makes a representation by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, or other manner that the person is a land surveyor. (3) Uses any title which implies that the person is a land surveyor or that the person is licensed under this chapter. (4) Holds the person’s self out as able to perform, or who does perform, any service or work title which implies that the person is a land surveyor or that the person is licensed under this chapter. (4) Holds the person’s self out as able to perform, or who does perform, any service or work included in the practice of land surveying. 11. 'Professional engineer' means a person, who, by reason of the person’s knowledge of mathematics, the physical sciences, and the principles of engineering, acquired byprofessional education or practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice ofengineering. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this chapter to 'engineer' or 'engineering' means 'professional engineer' or 'professional engineering'. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1855; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §114.2]84 Acts, ch 1104, §2C93, §542B.294 Acts, ch 1107, §13; 95 Acts, ch 65, §2, 3; 98 Acts, ch 1037, §1; 2012 Acts, ch 1009, §11; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §140 Referred to in §459.102 Sat Dec 23 01:44:45 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 542B.2 (21, 0)
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