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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 245. State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors |
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Chapter 15. Licensure and Practice of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors |
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Subchapter 9. Rules of Professional Conduct |
SECTION 245:15-9-4. Areas of practice
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- (a) Licensees shall practice only in the areas of their competence and shall undertake assignments only when qualified by education, examination, or experience in the specific technical fields of engineering or land surveying involved. The records of the Board shall indicate a discipline(s) of engineering designated by the license holder and considered by the Board to be their area(s) of competence. All requests relating to listings for area(s) of competency require the review of the Board or its designee and shall include the following:(1) Original application for licensure. Upon application for licensure, an applicant shall designate a discipline(s) of engineering by providing:(A) a transcript showing a Board-approved degree(s) in the discipline(s) of engineering; or(B) a supplementary experience record documenting at least 4 years of experience obtained under the supervision of a professional engineer or in the discipline(s) of engineering and verified by at least one PE reference provider that has personal knowledge of the applicant's qualifying engineering experience; or(C) verification of successful passage of the examination (s) on the principles and practice of engineering in the discipline(s) of engineering.(2) Comity application for licensure or current license holder. A comity applicant or current license holder may request that the Board change the primary area of competence or indicate additional areas of competence by providing one or more of the following items:(A) a transcript showing an additional degree in the new discipline of engineering other than the degree used for initial licensure; or(B) a supplemental experience record documenting at least 4 years of experience obtained under the supervision of a professional engineer in the new discipline(s) of engineering verified by at least one PE reference provider that has personal knowledge of the license holder's qualifying engineering experience; or(C) verification of successful passage of the on the principles and practice of engineering in the new discipline.(b) Licensees shall not affix their signatures, date of signature, or seals to any plans or documents dealing with subject matter in which they lack competence, or areas of competence designated in the official Board records, nor to any plan or document not prepared under their direct control and personal supervision.(c) Licensees may accept assignments for coordination of an entire project, provided that each design segment is signed, dated, and sealed by a licensee competent to practice in the discipline(s) of engineering and in direct control and personal supervision of that design segment.(d) In the event a question arises as to the competence of a licensee in a specific technical field which cannot be otherwise resolved to the Board's satisfaction, the Board, either upon request of the licensee or on its own volition, shall admit the licensee to an appropriate examination.