2005 Idaho Code - 54-1223 — SAVING CLAUSE -- EXEMPTIONS

                                  TITLE  54
                    PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
                                  CHAPTER 12
                           ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS
    54-1223.  SAVING CLAUSE -- EXEMPTIONS. (1) This chapter shall not be
construed to affect:
    (a)  The practice of any other profession or trade for which a license is
    required under any law of this state or the United States.
    (b)  The work of an employee or a subordinate of a person holding a
    certificate of registration under this chapter, provided such work does
    not include final engineering design or land surveying decisions and is
    done under the direct responsibility, checking, and supervision of, and
    verified by, a person holding a certificate of registration under this
    chapter.
    (c)  Any individual teaching upper division engineering subjects that are
    classified as engineering design for any college or university in this
    state as of July 1, 1988, and any such individual employed after July 1,
    1988, for a period of five (5) years from the date of employment with any
    college or university in this state.
    (d)  An individual doing surveying work for himself, or through a business
    entity, on property owned or leased by the individual or business entity,
    or in which the individual or business entity has an interest, estate or
    possessory right and which affects exclusively the property or interests
    of the individual or business entity; provided, that all land surveying
    maps, plats or plans filed with any county recorder's office in the state
    of Idaho for the purpose of illustrating or defining boundaries of
    property ownership, shall be made and certified by a registered,
    professional land surveyor as provided in this chapter.
    (e)  An individual doing survey work for himself, or through a business
    entity with respect to the location, amendment, or relocation of a mining
    claim.
    (f)  The practice of engineering by employees of a business entity as long
    as the services provided by them are for internal business entity use
    only.
    (2)  The board, at its discretion, may exempt an exceptional individual
who has twelve (12) or more years of appropriate experience in engineering
from the requirement for satisfactory completion of an examination in the
fundamentals of engineering.
    (3)  An applicant for licensure as a professional engineer either by
examination or by comity who has earned a bachelor degree in engineering from
an approved engineering program and has, in addition, earned a doctorate
degree in engineering from a college or university which offers an approved
undergraduate program in the same discipline as the doctorate degree earned,
shall be exempt from the requirement for satisfactory completion of an
examination in the fundamentals of engineering. Honorary doctorate degrees are
not considered earned degrees for purposes of this subsection.
    (4)  In addition to, and notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter,
in circumstances of emergency creating conditions of imminent and substantial
danger to the public health, safety or environment through the provision of
engineering services, the prosecuting attorney or the attorney general may
institute a civil action for an immediate injunction to halt the provision of
engineering services.