The engineer or land surveyor shall act competently and use proper care in performing engineering or land surveying services for clients or employers and shall act only in fields in which qualified by education, examination or experience as follows:

1. (a) The engineer or land surveyor shall not accept any engineering or land surveying employment, or undertake any engineering and/or land surveying assignment, for which he or she is not qualified by education, examination or experience to perform or to carry out adequately and competently; providing and excepting, however, that an engineer or land surveyor may accept an assignment requiring education, examination and experience outside his or her field of competence only to the extent that personal engineering or land surveying services are restricted solely to those phases of the service or project in which he or she is qualified and competent, and that all other phases of such service or project shall be performed by qualified consultants, associates or employees.
2. (b) The engineer or land surveyor shall not affix his or her signature or seal to any engineering or land surveying plan or document dealing with subject matter on which he or she is not qualified by education, examination or experience to form a dependable judgment.
3. (c) The engineer or land surveyor, when serving as an expert or technical witness before any court, commission or other tribunal, shall express an opinion only when it is founded upon adequate knowledge of the facts in issue, upon a background of technical competence in the subject matter, and upon honest conviction of the accuracy and propriety of his or her testimony.
4. (d) The engineer, land surveyor, engineer intern, or land surveyor intern shall not engage in any other professional matter for which a specific license is required without first being licensed in that profession.

Author: William R. Huett, (Executive Director), Bonnie Kelly

Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §34-11-35.

History: Filed September 22, 1982. Amended: Filed September 23, 1998; effective October 28, 1998. Amended: Filed August 5, 2015; effective September 9, 2015. Amended: Published November 30, 2021; effective January 14, 2022.