1. A. The board shall issue licenses pursuant to the provisions of the Engineering and Surveying Practice Act. The board shall provide for the proper authentication of all documents.
2. B. The board shall regulate the use of seals and may approve alternative authentications to physical or electronic seals.
3. C. An engineer shall have the right to engage in activities properly classified as architecture insofar as it is incidental to the engineer's work as an engineer; provided that the engineer shall not make any representation as being an architect or as performing architectural services unless duly registered as such.
4. D. The board shall recognize that there may be occasions when professional engineers need to obtain supplemental survey information for the planning and design of an engineering project. A professional engineer who has primary engineering responsibility and control of an engineering project may perform supplemental surveying work in obtaining data incidental to that project. Supplemental surveying work may be performed by a professional engineer only on a project for which the engineer is providing engineering design services.

History: Laws 1987, ch. 336, § 19; 1993, ch. 218, § 14; 1999, ch. 259, § 13; 2012, ch. 46, § 5; 2017, ch. 42, § 7; 2019, ch. 220, § 4.

ANNOTATIONS

Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-23-32 NMSA 1978.

Repeals and reenactments. — Laws 1987, ch. 336 repealed former 61-23-19 NMSA 1978, as amended by Laws 1979, ch. 363, § 14, relating to examinations, effective June 19, 1987, and enacted a new section.

The 2019 amendment, effective June 14, 2019, authorized the board of licensure for professional engineers and professional surveyors to approve alternative authentications to physical or electronic seals; and in Subsection B, after "use of seals", added "and may approve alternative authentications to physical or electronic seals".

The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, provided rules for supplemental surveying work for the planning and design of an engineering project; in the catchline, changed "license" to "licenses", and added "incidental architectural work; supplemental surveying work"; and added Subsection D.

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, eliminated the issuance of certificates of licensure; in the title after "Engineering", deleted "certificate" and added "license"; in Subsection A, in the first sentence, after "board shall issue", deleted "certificates of licensure" and added "licenses"; and in Subsection C, after "engineer shall not", deleted "hold himself out to be" and added "make any representation as being".

The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, substituted "certificates of licensure pursuant to" for "certificates of registration under" in Subsection A.

The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, rewrote this section to the extent that a detailed comparison is impracticable.