(a) Any person or entity who commits any of the following actions shall be subject to disciplinary action by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors:

1. (1) Practicing, or offering to practice, engineering or surveying in the State of Arkansas without being licensed under the provisions of the acts;
2. (2) Using or employing the words “engineer”, “engineering”, “surveyor”, or “surveying” or any modification or derivative thereof in its name, form of business, or activity except as authorized in the statutes and rules of the board;
3. (3) Presenting or attempting to use the license or the seal of another;
4. (4) Giving false or forged evidence of any kind to the board or to any member thereof in obtaining or attempting to obtain licensure;
5. (5) Falsely impersonating any other licensee of like or different name;
6. (6) Attempt to use an expired, revoked, or nonexistent license;
7. (7) Practice or offer to practice when not qualified; or
8. (8) Falsely claiming to be licensed under the statutes and the rules of the board.

(b)

1. (1) Any complaint filed with the State Surveyor’s office or the board against a surveyor for any reason shall automatically authorize the State Surveyor to investigate the subject surveyor’s compliance with the Arkansas Standards of Practice No. 1, which requires the filing of plats with the State Surveyor’s office.
2. (2) Violations of the Arkansas Standards of Practice No. 1 shall become part of the original complaint or may, at the discretion of the board, constitute a complaint in their own right.
3. (3) Each plat that is found not to have been properly filed shall constitute a separate violation.
4. (4) Each violation shall be punished by a penalty of no more than one hundred dollars ($100).

(c)

1. (1) The board is empowered to impose a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per instance against any individual violating any portion of the statutes or rules of the board pertaining to the practice of engineering and/or surveying.
2. (2) Civil penalties may be imposed on licensees or nonlicensees.