As used in Section 475.1 et seq. of this title:

1. 1. "Engineer" means a person who, by reason of special knowledge and use of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences and the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, acquired by engineering education and engineering experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of engineering;
2. 2. "Professional engineer" means a person who has been duly registered and licensed as a professional engineer as provided in Section 475.1 et seq. of this title;
3. 3. "Engineer intern" means a person who complies with the requirements for education and experience and has passed an examination in the fundamental engineering subjects, as provided in Section 475.1 et seq. of this title;

4. 4. "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 and design of engineering works and systems, planning the engineering use of land and water, teaching of advanced engineering subjects or courses related thereto, engineering research, engineering surveys, engineering studies, and the inspection or review of construction for the purposes of assuring 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, chemical, environmental, hydraulic, pneumatic or thermal nature, insofar as they involve safeguarding life, health or property, and including such other professional services as may be necessary to the planning, progress and completion of any engineering services.

   Engineering surveys include all survey activities required to support the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of engineered projects, but exclude the surveying of real property for the establishment of land boundaries, rights-of-way, easements and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of the public land survey system.

   A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice engineering, within the meaning and intent of Section 475.1 et seq. of this title, who practices any branch of the profession of engineering; or who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way represents himself to be a professional engineer, or through the use of some other title implies that he is a professional engineer or that he is registered under Section 475.1 et seq. of this title; or who holds himself out as able to perform, or who does perform any engineering service or work or any other service designated by the practitioner which is recognized as engineering;

5. 5. "Land surveyor" means a person who, by reason of special knowledge in the technique of measuring land and use of the basic principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence and all requisite to surveying of real property, acquired by education and experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of land surveying;
6. 6. "Professional land surveyor" means a person who has been duly registered and licensed as a professional land surveyor as provided in Section 475.1 et seq. of this title;

7. 7. "Land surveyor intern" means a person who complies with the requirements for education and experience, and has passed an examination in the fundamental land surveying subjects, as provided in Section 475.1 et seq. of this title;

   8.a. "Practice of land surveying" means any service or work, the adequate performance of which involves 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 of land boundaries, to the act of measuring, locating, or establishing 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, geodetic positions, and the design, establishment, and administration of land and geographic information systems, and the collection, storage, analysis and management of data within those systems; for the monumenting of property and land boundaries and for the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions thereof, including the topography; and for the preparation and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field note records, and property descriptions that represent these surveys.

8. b. A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice land surveying, within the meaning and intent of Section 475.1 et seq. of this title, who practices any branch of the profession of land surveying or who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way represents himself or herself to be a professional land surveyor or through the use of some other title implies that he or she is a professional land surveyor or that he or she is registered under Section 475.1 et seq. of this title or holds himself or herself out as able to perform or who does perform any land surveying service or work for which a license is required.
9. c. A person shall not be construed to practice or offer to practice land surveying, within the meaning and intent of Section 475.1 et seq. of this title, who merely acts as an agent of a purchaser of land surveying services. Agents of a purchaser of land surveying services include, but are not limited to, real estate agents and brokers, title companies, attorneys providing title examination services, and persons who or firms that coordinate the acquisition and use of land surveying services. The coordination of land surveying services includes, but is not limited to; sales and marketing of services, discussion of requirements of land surveys, contracting to furnish land surveys, review of land surveys, the requesting of revisions of land surveys, and making any and all modifications to surveys with the written consent of the land surveyor, and furnishing final revised copies to the land surveyor showing all revisions, the distribution of land surveys, and receiving payment for such services. These actions do not constitute the practice of land surveying, and do not violate any part of Section 475.1 through 475.22a of this title or the Bylaws and Rules of the Oklahoma State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors;
10. 9. "Board" means the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors;
11. 10. "Responsible charge" means direct control and personal supervision of engineering work or land surveying;
12. 11. "Rules of professional conduct for professional engineers and land surveyors" means those rules promulgated by the Board; and
13. 12. "Firm" means a corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint stock association or private practitioner employing others.

Laws 1968, SB 524, c. 245, § 2, emerg. eff. April 26, 1968; Amended by Laws 1982, SB 616, c. 297, § 2; Amended by Laws 1992, SB 799, c. 165, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1992 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1999, SB 752, c. 74, § 1, eff. November 1, 1999 (superseded document available).