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2021 Georgia Code
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses
Chapter 15 - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
§ 43-15-30. Unlawful Acts

Universal Citation: GA Code § 43-15-30 (2021)
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  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. 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.)

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted "that" for "who" throughout this Code section; in subsection (b), substituted "individual" for "person" near the beginning, inserted "or her" near the middle, and inserted "or license" in the middle; substituted ", certificate of registration, or license" for "or certificate of registration" in the middle of subsection (c); in subsection (d), inserted "or licensee" in the middle and inserted "or license" near the end; deleted former subsection (e), which read: "Each day or occurrence shall be considered a separate offense."; redesignated former subsection (f) as present subsection (e), and, in subsection (e), substituted "letterhead, or otherwise" for "or letterhead" in the middle; and added subsections (f) and (g).

The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, substituted "'Engineered,' 'Professional Structural Engineer,' 'Professional Structural Engineers,' 'Structural Engineer,' 'Structural Engineers,' 'Structural Engineering,' or 'Structurally Engineered'" for "or 'Engineered'" in the middle of subsection (e).

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.

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