2011 Vermont Code
Title 26 Professions and Occupations
Chapter 20 PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING
§ 1163 Exemptions

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TITLE 26

Professions and Occupations

CHAPTER 20. PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING

Subchapter I. General Provisions

§ 1163. Exemptions

(a) Persons exempt. Section 1162 of this title does not prohibit acts constituting the practice of engineering performed as a necessary part of the duties of:

(1) An officer or employee of the federal government.

(2) An officer or a full-time employee of the state.

(3) An officer or full-time employee of a municipality.

(4) Certain classes of licensed potable water supply and wastewater system designers, as designated by rule of the secretary of the agency of natural resources, who design supplies or systems with a design flow of up to 1,350 gallons per day and who are licensed under chapter 64 of Title 10.

(5) An officer or employee of a corporation in interstate communications as defined in the act of Congress entitled "Communications Act of 1934" or of a telephone company under the supervision and regulation of the department of public service.

(6) An employee of a professional engineer.

(7) Students of engineering acting under the supervision of a professional engineer.

(b) Other professions. Section 1162 of this title does not prohibit acts constituting the practice of any other legally recognized profession or occupation.

(c) Purposes exempt. Section 1162 of this title does not prohibit any person from performing acts constituting the practice of engineering for the purpose of:

(1) Designing or fabricating a manufactured product.

(2) Designing or constructing a building which is not a public building as defined in Title 18.

(3) Designing or constructing a building which contains only one, two or three dwelling units, or accessory outbuildings.

(4) Construction of public works by a municipality.

(5) Designing or constructing recreational trails and trail-related structures by a not-for-profit organization whose trails have been recognized by the agency of natural resources as part of the Vermont trails system; provided such organization purchases and maintains liability insurance in the amount required by law or under a contract with the state of Vermont, but in no event in an amount that is less than $100,000.00.

(d) [Repealed.]

(e) [Repealed.] (Added 1983, No. 188 (Adj. Sess.), { 2; amended 1987, No. 76, { 18; 1991, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), { 66(8); 1995, No. 175 (Adj. Sess.), { 1; 2001, No. 133 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 10, 11, eff. June 13, 2002; 2009, No. 35, §§ 15, 41.)