2020 Georgia Code
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses
Chapter 15 - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
§ 43-15-30. (For Effective Date, See note.) Unlawful Acts

1. Any person that violates Code Section 43-15-7 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Any individual presenting or attempting to use as his or her own the certificate of registration or license or the seal of another obtained under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
3. Any person that gives any false or forged evidence of any kind to the board or to any member thereof in obtaining a certificate, certificate of registration, or license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
4. Any person that falsely impersonates any other registrant or licensee or any person that attempts to use an expired or revoked certificate of registration or license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
5. (For effective date, see note.) Any person offering services to the public that uses by name, verbal claim, sign, advertisement, directory listing, letterhead, or otherwise the words "Engineer," "Engineers," "Professional Engineering," "Engineering," "Engineered," "Professional Structural Engineer," "Professional Structural Engineers," "Structural Engineer," "Structural Engineers," "Structural Engineering," or "Structurally Engineered" shall be guilty of a misdemeanor unless said person has complied with the provisions of this chapter.
6. Any person offering services to the public that uses by name, verbal claim, sign, advertisement, directory listing, letterhead, or otherwise the words "Professional Land Surveyor," "Professional Land Surveyors," "Land Surveyor," or "Land Surveyors" shall be guilty of a misdemeanor unless such person has complied with the provisions of this chapter.
7. Each day or occurrence in violation of any provision of this Code section shall be considered a separate offense.

(Ga. L. 1937, p. 294, § 23; Ga. L. 1945, p. 294, § 40; Code 1933, § 84-2131, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1048, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 2271, § 2; Ga. L. 2018, p. 583, § 1/SB 425; Ga. L. 2020, p. 642, § 11/SB 310.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Validity and application of statute prohibiting use of name descriptive of engineering by business organization not practicing profession of engineering, 13 A.L.R.4th 676.