2006 Utah Code - 58-22-102 — Definitions.

     58-22-102.   Definitions.
     In addition to the definitions in Section 58-1-102, as used in this chapter:
     (1) "Board" means the Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors Licensing Board created in Section 58-22-201.
     (2) "Building" means a structure which has human occupancy or habitation as its principal purpose, and includes the structural, mechanical, and electrical systems, utility services, and other facilities required for the building, and is otherwise governed by the codes adopted under Title 58, Chapter 56, Uniform Building Standards Act.
     (3) "Complete construction plans" means a final set of plans, specifications, and reports for a building or structure that normally includes:
     (a) floor plans;
     (b) elevations;
     (c) site plans;
     (d) foundation, structural, and framing detail;
     (e) electrical, mechanical, and plumbing design;
     (f) information required by the energy code;
     (g) specifications and related calculations as appropriate; and
     (h) all other documents required to obtain a building permit.
     (4) "EAC/ABET" means the Engineering Accreditation Commission/Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
     (5) "Fund" means the Professional Engineer, Professional Structural Engineer, and Professional Land Surveyor Education and Enforcement Fund created in Section 58-22-103.
     (6) "NCEES" means the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.
     (7) "Principal" means a licensed professional engineer, professional structural engineer, or professional land surveyor having responsible charge of an organization's professional engineering, professional structural engineering, or professional land surveying practice.
     (8) "Professional engineer" means a person licensed under this chapter as a professional engineer.
     (9) "Professional engineering or the practice of engineering" means any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to such services or creative work as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, and design coordination of engineering works and systems, planning the use of land and water, facility programming, performing engineering surveys and studies, and the review of construction for the purpose of monitoring compliance with drawings and specifications; any of which embraces such services or work, either public or private, in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, projects, and industrial or consumer products or equipment of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or thermal nature, and including such other professional services as may be necessary to the planning, progress, and completion of any engineering services, provided that the practice of professional engineering shall not include the practice of architecture as defined in 58-3a-102, but a licensed professional engineer may perform such architecture work as is incidental to the practice of engineering.
     (10) "Professional engineering intern" means a person who has completed the education requirements to become a professional engineer, has passed the fundamentals of engineering

examination, and is engaged in obtaining the four years of qualifying experience for licensure under the direct supervision of a licensed professional engineer.
     (11) "Professional land surveying or the practice of land surveying" means any service or work, the adequate performance of which requires the application of special knowledge of the principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences, and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence to the act of measuring and locating lines, angles, elevations, natural and man-made features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings, and on the beds of bodies of water for the purpose of determining areas and volumes, for the monumenting or locating property boundaries or points controlling boundaries, and for the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions thereof, including the topography, alignment and grades of streets, and for the preparation and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field notes records, and property descriptions that represent these surveys and such other duties as sound surveying practices could direct.
     (12) "Professional land surveyor" means an individual licensed under this chapter as a professional land surveyor.
     (13) "Professional structural engineer" means a person licensed under this chapter as a professional structural engineer.
     (14) "Professional structural engineering or the practice of structural engineering" means the design and analysis of complex buildings and structures and includes the definition of professional engineering or the practice of engineering provided in Subsection (9), and may be further defined by rule by the division in collaboration with the board.
     (15) "Structure" means that which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, and as otherwise governed by the codes adopted under Title 58, Chapter 56, Uniform Building Standards Act.
     (16) " Supervision of an employee, subordinate, associate, or drafter of a licensee" means that a licensed professional engineer, professional structural engineer, or professional land surveyor is responsible for and personally reviews, corrects when necessary, and approves work performed by any employee, subordinate, associate, or drafter under the direction of the licensee, and may be further defined by rule by the division in collaboration with the board.
     (17) "TAC/ABET" means the Technology Accreditation Commission/Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
     (18) "Unlawful conduct" is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-22-501.
     (19) "Unprofessional conduct" as defined in Section 58-1-501 may be further defined by rule by the division in collaboration with the board.

Amended by Chapter 259, 1996 General Session