- (a) In order to safeguard life, health, and property, and to promote the public welfare, the practice of geology in this state has been declared to be subject to oversight in the public interest.
- (b) This part is adopted in order to introduce qualifying criteria in the professional field.
- (c) Such action recommends itself through benefits to the safety, health, and property of the people of Arkansas and to the promotion of the public welfare.
- (d) These benefits are in the fields of geology as related to engineering, ground water, mineral exploration and development, geologic hazards, environmental geology, the further development of the science of geology, and other geologic matters of concern to the people of this state.