2019 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
CHAPTER 7 - Professional Engineers
ARTICLE 6 - Offenses Against the Chapter
Section 6787.

A person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor:

(a) Unless the person is exempt from licensure under this chapter, practice or offer to practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering in this state according to the provisions of this chapter without legal authorization.

(b) Present or attempt to file as the person’s own the certificate of licensure of a licensed professional engineer unless they are the person named on the certificate of licensure.

(c) Give false evidence of any kind to the board, or to any board member, in obtaining a certificate of licensure.

(d) Impersonate or use the seal, signature, or license number of a licensed professional engineer or use a false license number.

(e) Use an expired, suspended, surrendered, or revoked license.

(f) Represent themselves as, or uses the title of, a licensed or registered civil, electrical, or mechanical engineer, or any other title whereby that person could be considered as practicing or offering to practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering in any of its branches, unless they are correspondingly qualified by licensure as a civil, electrical, or mechanical engineer under this chapter.

(g) Unless appropriately licensed, manage, or conduct as manager, proprietor, or agent, any place of business from which civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering work is solicited, performed, or practiced, except as authorized pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 6738 and Section 8726.1.

(h) Use the title, or any combination of that title, of “professional engineer,” “licensed engineer,” “registered engineer,” or the branch titles specified in Section 6732, or the authority titles specified in Sections 6736 and 6736.1, or “engineer-in-training,” or use any abbreviation of that title that might lead to the belief that the person is a licensed engineer, is authorized to use the titles specified in Section 6736 or 6736.1, or holds a certificate as an engineer-in-training, without being licensed, authorized, or certified as required by this chapter.

(i) Use the title “consulting engineer” without being licensed as required by this chapter or without being authorized to use that title pursuant to legislation enacted at the 1963, 1965 or 1968 Regular Session.

(j) Violate any provision of this chapter.

(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 630, Sec. 5. (AB 1522) Effective January 1, 2020.)