Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-09-29
PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS MUST
BE LICENSED

On March II, 1922, Governor Ed
wards appointed a State Board of Pro-
fessional Engineers and Land Survey
ors, the personnel of which follows:
Thomas j. Wasser, State Highway
Engineer, Trenton, n. j.
George H. Noble, Assistant City En-
gineer, Clifton, n. J.
Harvey Shook, County Engineer,
Sussex County, Newton, N. j.
j. c. Remington, Consulting Engi-
neer, H%addonfeld, N. J.
Hugh A. Kelly, Engineer, Depart
ment of Parks and Public Property,
Jersey City, N j..
The Act creating this Board was
made possible through the efforts of
the professional engineers in the State
of New Jersey, its object being tt safe
guard the life, health and property of
citizens. All professional engineers
and land surveyors in order to prac-
tice after April s, 1923, must hold a
State License granted by the State
Board of Professional Engineers and
Land Surveyors. In order to obtain
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be presented to the Board that the APP
plicant is fully qualified to practice
professional engineering or land sur
yeying. Requests for application
blanks should be addressed to Hugh
A. Kelly, secretary, 10 Trust Co. of
N. ]. building, Jersey City, N. ]. The
need of regulation of engineering prac-
.tice has always existed, as will be
realized by the number of lives that
daily depend upon the safe and proper
design and construction, and the i'm
mense amount of money involved in
engineering projects. The public
would have no assurance of the safety
of bridges, buildings, dams, tunnels,
railways and numerous other engi-
neering works, and investors would
have no assurance of the economy Of
the design of such structures in which
their funds are invested without a law
providing for licensing the engineers
who are responsible for the design and
construction of these public works.
The passage of this licensing act was
sponsored by reputable professional
engineers. in order to safeguard the
public, who as a general rule, are i'm
clined to accept every new bridge or
other structure thrown open as being
safe, without realizing the chances of
fatal accidents occurring, due to lack
Of regulation and provision for the fix
ing Of responsibility upon men COM
petent to design and supervise con
struction. No one giving thought to
the matter would engage a lawyer
when not admitted to the bar; a dentist,
physician or an architect who had not
been licensed. There is as much rea-
son to examine and license profess
sional engineers and land surveyors as
any Of the above mentioned profess
sions. It is now necessary for every
one to be licensed to practice in the
State of New Jersey, who through
technical knowledge gained by educa-
ton and experience in n or more
branches of engineering, initiates, in
vestigates, plans and directs the APP
plication of the of nature
to the use and convenience of man,
and who represents himself or herself
to be such an engineer, whether
through the use of the term engineer,
with or without qualifying adjectives,
or through the use of some other title
implying that he or she is such an
engineer.
Land surveyors, as covered by the
Act, covers surveys for the determina-
ton OF areas or for the establishment
or establishment of land boundaries
and the subdivision and plating of
land, and it is necessary for all per-
sons who conduct such surveys to ap-
ply to the State Board of Professional
Engineers and Land Surveyors for
license. 1t is rumoTed that those ap-
plying for license after April s, 1928,
will have to submit to examination be-
fore obtaining a license. So to avoid
trouble later on, get your application
in early.