The Winslow mail., 1923-10-19
ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, LAND
=. SURVEYORS, AND ASSAYERS
MUST REGISTER.
New Law Effective January First

! The last Arizona Legislature revis-
| ed the law providing for the registra-
| tiOn Of professional engineers, arch
itects, land surveyors, and assayers
| in such way as to make it unlaw-
| full for anyone to practice one of
! these professions or vocatiOnS in a
responsible capacity after January
! 1st unless he has been registered by
the State Board of Registration or
| has applied for registration. A fine
of not less than 800 or more than
| $500, Imprisonment for not more than
six months, or both fine and imprison-
ment are possible penalties awaiting
anyone who neglects to comply with
the law, which the Board intends to
force to the letter
The personnel of the State Board
of Registration is now as follows:
G. NJ Butler (ex-officio) Mining
Engineer and Geologist, Tucson.
L. B. Hitchcock, Civil Engineer,
Phoenix.
E. F. Irving, Mechanical Engineer,
Warren.
Homer R. Wood, Civil and Mining
Engineer. Prescott.
L. NJ. Fitzhugh, Architect, Phoenix.
J. B. Lyman, Architect, Tucson
V: o. Wallingford (Secretary),
Architect, Box 1895, Phoenix.
The Board has already issued 209
certificates Of registration, and will
hold it's next regular meeting in Phoe-
nix on Friday, Oct. 19. Since it is
doubtful whether another meeting
will be held this year, and since it
takes some time to canvass refer
ences before applications can be con-
sidered, unregistered members of the
professions or vocations involved
should apply Immediately to the sec
retary of the Board for application
blanks and copies of the registration
law. Failure to do so may seriously
Inconvenience them.
While government officials and GER
tain other classes Of peoples are eX-
empted from the provisions of the
law, such exemption does not extend
to employees of the state, or any
county, city, or town therein; and
people who make or offer to make
examinations for the public, and who
prepare or offer to prepare reports
bearing upon the probable economic
worth of deposits or reputed deposits
of metallic or non-metallic minerals,
rocks, coal, asphalt, petroleum, oil
shale, or natural gas are specifically
required to be registered, since it has
been felt that the operations OF So
called mining engineers who are ut
terlv incompetent or dishonest con-
stitute a serious menace to the min
eral industries of the state.
It is stated that the registration
law was enacted not to create a
monopoly for a limited number OF
people, but to protect the public
from the operations of incompetent
and unreliable men. The Board
claims to be trying assiduously honest
and fairly capable people as little as
possible 1t does not demand formal
technical training in college as a
prerequisite for registration, since 1t
recognizes that real ability may be
gained from home study and eXper-
fence It is not claimed that all re-
gistrants are high-grade men, but
merely that they possess a certain
minimum of technical knowledge and
experience. Registered architects
and engineers must, nevertheless,
have demonstrated their ability to de-
sign and lay out safe structures, ana
show that they are more than good
construction foremen The Board
does not interest itself, however, in
the artistic ability of an architect, or
in that quality in an engineer which
enables him to overcome difficulties
in the most ingenious fashion. 1t
men who are wholly incompetent OF
serving in responsible positions or
who are otherwise undeserving OF
public confidence can be prevented
from deceiving and defrauding the
public. the Board feels that it's work
will be more than justified.