2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 322 - PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS 322.180 Grounds for denial of licensure and for disciplinary action.
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322.180 Grounds for denial of licensure and for disciplinary action.
The board may refuse to issue, refuse to renew, suspend, or revoke a license, may
reprimand, place on probation, or admonish a licensee, may impose a fine on a
licensee not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or may impose any
combination of these penalties when it finds that an applicant or licensee:
(1) Engaged in any practice of fraud or deceit in obtaining a license;
(2) Engaged in gross negligence, incompetence, or misconduct in the practice of
engineering or land surveying;
(3) Violated any provision of this chapter, the administrative regulations
promulgated by the board, or the code of professional practice and conduct
adopted by the board and incorporated in administrative regulations;
(4) Employed, procured, or induced a person not licensed to practice engineering
or land surveying in this state;
(5) Aided or abetted a person not licensed to practice engineering or land
surveying in this state;
(6) Been granted a license upon a mistake of material fact;
(7) Been convicted by a court of law of a felony;
(8) Become a chronic or persistent alcoholic or has become drug-addicted so that
continued practice is dangerous to clients or to the public safety;
(9) Developed a physical or mental disability or other condition so that continued
practice is dangerous to clients or to the public safety;
(10) Violated any order of suspension or the terms or conditions of any order of
probation issued by the board;
(11) Had a license or registration certificate to practice as an engineer or land
surveyor denied, limited, suspended, probated, or revoked in another
jurisdiction on grounds sufficient to cause licensure to be denied, limited,
suspended, probated, or revoked in this state;
(12) Engaged in conduct likely to deceive or defraud the public;
(13) Presented or attempted to use as his or her own the license, seal, or stamp of
another;
(14) Falsely impersonated any other licensee;
(15) Attempted to use an expired, suspended, or revoked license;
(16) Provided certification for any plan, specification, plat, report, or physical
description not prepared by him or her or under his or her direct supervision; or
(17) Applied the seal, stamp, signature, or title block of another professional
engineer or professional land surveyor to a plan, specification, plat, report, or
physical description that was not prepared by the other professional engineer
or land surveyor.
Effective:July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 163, sec. 10, effective July 15, 2010. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 214, sec. 16, effective January 1, 1999. -- Amended
1986 Ky. Acts ch. 291, sec. 17, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky.
Acts ch. 273, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 148,
sec. 13. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942,
from Ky. Stat. sec. 1599e-20.
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