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NH Rev Stat § 310-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:2 - Definitions.

    310-A:2 Definitions. –||As used in this subdivision:||I. "Board" means the board of professional engineers.||I-a. "Business organization" means any enterprise, whether corporation, partnership, limited liability company, proprietorship, association, business trust, real estate trust, or other form of organization; organized for gain or profit, carrying on any business activity within the state.||II. "Professional engineer" means a person who by reason of advanced knowledge of mathematics and the physical sciences, acquired by professional education and practical experience, is technically and legally qualified to practice engineering, and who is licensed by the board or otherwise authorized by this subdivision to engage in the practice of engineering.||III. "Practice of engineering" means any professional service or creative work requiring education, training, experience, and the application of advanced knowledge of mathematics and physical sciences, involving the constant exercise of discretion and judgment, to such services or work as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, responsible oversight of construction, and responsible oversight of operation, in connection with any public or private utilities, structure, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works, or projects, wherein the public welfare, or the safeguarding of life, health, or property is concerned.||IV. "Engineering surveys" means any surveying activities required to support the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of engineering projects by persons licensed under this subdivision, but shall exclude the surveying of real property for the establishment or reestablishment of land boundaries, rights-of-way, easements, and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of the public land survey system.||V. "Engineer of record" means a professional engineer who seals drawings, reports, or documents for a project. The seal shall acknowledge that the professional engineer prepared, coordinated, or had subordinates prepare under the direct supervision of the professional engineer, drawings, reports, or documents for a project. The engineer of record shall not be responsible for engineering work performed and sealed by other professional engineers, including independent consulting engineers who work under the coordination of the engineer of record.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1995, 136:1, eff. July 23, 1995; 284:1-4, 57, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:2-a - Purpose.

    310-A:2-a Purpose. –||To safeguard life, health, and property, and to promote public welfare, the practice of engineering in this state shall be regulated by the board of professional engineers, except as provided in RSA 485-A:4 and RSA 485-A:35.|||Source. 1995, 284:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:2-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:2-b - Jurisdiction of the Board of Professional Engineers; Regulation of Scope of Practice.

    310-A:2-b Jurisdiction of the Board of Professional Engineers;  Regulation of Scope of Practice. –||No agency or subdivision of the state shall adopt any rule, regulation, standard, code, ordinance, or policy that restricts or limits the scope of practice of any licensed professional engineer, whose practice shall be within the sole jurisdiction of the board of professional engineers.|||Source. 1995, 284:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:4 - Repealed by 1995, 284:59, I, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

    310-A:4 Repealed by 1995, 284:59, I, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. –|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:5 - Repealed by 1995, 284:59, II, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

    310-A:5 Repealed by 1995, 284:59, II, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. –|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:5-a - Notice of Rulemaking Proceedings.

    310-A:5-a Notice of Rulemaking Proceedings. –||The board shall solicit from each license holder, at the time of application or renewal, whether the license holder wishes to be categorized as an interested party for the purpose of RSA 541-A:6, III. The board is authorized to assess license holders who ask to be counted as interested parties a nominal fee, not to exceed the increased costs of this section.|||Source. 1997, 321:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:6 - Rulemaking Authority.

    310-A:6 Rulemaking Authority. –||I. The board shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:||(a) [Repealed.]||(b) The qualifications of applicants in addition to those requirements set by statute, and including the qualifications for satisfactory evidence of good professional character;||(c) How an applicant shall be examined;||(d) The requirements for renewal of a license, including the requirements for continuing education;||(e) [Repealed.]||(f) Ethical and professional standards required to be met by each holder of a license under this subdivision and how disciplinary actions by the board shall be implemented for violations of these standards;||(g) Matters related to the proper administration of this subdivision;||(h) Procedures for the conduct of hearings consistent with the requirements of due process;||(i) The design of an official seal;||(j) [Repealed.]||(k) [Repealed.]||(l) What constitutes engineering experience for the purposes of RSA 310-A:12;||(m) Procedures for a waiver of the fundamentals of engineering examination under RSA 310-A:12, II;||(n) The circumstances under which an applicant may be required to take an examination under RSA 310-A:12, IV;||(o) Interstate licensure and temporary permits under RSA 310-A:19;||(p) Waiver of renewal fees for professional engineers 70 years of age or older under RSA 310-A:21;||(q) Procedural and substantive requirements for assessing, compromising, and collecting civil penalties against licensees as authorized by RSA 310-A:23, V(f);||(r) The requirements for retired status.||II. [Repealed.]||III. At least 40 days prior to any hearing to be held pursuant to RSA 541-A:11, the board shall furnish a copy of any proposed rules of professional conduct, or amendments thereto, to all affected professionals licensed by the board.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:1. 1994, 412:31. 1995, 284:7, 56-59, III. 1998, 204:1. 2012, 52:1. 2014, 174:2, eff. Sept. 9, 2014. 2021, 197:125, 126, III, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:6-a - Immunity From Civil Liability.

    310-A:6-a Immunity From Civil Liability. –||No action or other legal proceedings for damages shall be instituted against the board or any member or employee of the board for any act done in good faith or for any neglect or default in the performance or exercise in good faith of any such duty or power.|||Source. 1995, 284:8, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:7 - Fees.

    310-A:7 Fees. –||I. The board shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A which establish fees for the following:||(a) Examinations.||(b) Application for licensure upon passing the examination.||(c) Application for a certificate, temporary permit, or license under RSA 310-A:19 and 20.||(d) Biennial renewal for licensed professional engineers.||(e) Late reinstatement for a late renewal of license.||(f) Replacement of lost or mutilated license.||(g) Transcribing and transferring records and other services.||II. The fees established by the board shall be sufficient to produce estimated revenues equal to 125 percent of the direct operating expenses of the board budgeted for the biennium in which they will apply.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:2. 1995, 284:9. 2014, 269:4, eff. July 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:8 - Receipts and Disbursements.

    310-A:8 Receipts and Disbursements. –||The board may employ such investigators, retained through the office of professional licensure and certification, and may make expenditures for the reasonable expenses of the board's delegate to meetings of, and membership dues to, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). The board may, with the approval of the attorney general, hire counsel and investigators through the office of professional licensure and certification and pay the reasonable expenses of such counsel and investigators for the investigation and prosecution of any violation of this subdivision.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1995, 284:10. 2013, 144:111, eff. July 1, 2013. 2015, 276:51, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:9 - Repealed by 1995, 284:59, IV, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

    310-A:9 Repealed by 1995, 284:59, IV, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. –|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:10 - Repealed by 1995, 284:59, V, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

    310-A:10 Repealed by 1995, 284:59, V, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. –|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:11 - Licensure Required.

    310-A:11 Licensure Required. –||No person shall practice engineering in this state, except as permitted in RSA 310-A:19, III or RSA 310-A:27, without a professional engineer's license issued under this subdivision.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:6. 1995, 284:11, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:12 - General Requirements for Licensure as an Engineer.

    310-A:12 General Requirements for Licensure as an Engineer. –||I. Applicants who have the minimum of a bachelor of science degree, or the equivalent, from an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or other accredited 4-year institution in an engineering curriculum, certification as an "engineer-in-training" as a result of a NCEES fundamentals of engineering proctored examination and 4 years of accumulated engineering experience under the direction of a licensed professional engineer and satisfactory to the board may apply to sit for the professional engineers examination.||II. Applicants who have the minimum of a bachelor of science degree, or the equivalent, from an ABET or other accredited 4-year institution in an engineering curriculum and more than 10 years of accumulated engineering experience under the direction of a licensed professional engineer and satisfactory to the board may apply to sit for the professional engineers examination. Such an applicant may request a waiver of the fundamentals of engineering examination.||III. Applicants with a minimum of 25 years of engineering experience of which at least 10 years shall have been in responsible charge of engineering work satisfactory to the board may apply for licensure under this section on the basis of education and experience, provided that they have successfully passed the professional engineers examination required by RSA 310-A:17.||IV. Whenever the evidence presented in an application under paragraph I, II, or III does not appear to the board conclusive and warranting the issuance of a license, the applicant shall be required to pass a proctored examination, as the board may determine.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:7. 1995, 284:12, 58. 1997, 321:2. 2012, 52:2, 3, eff. July 13, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:13 - Character.

    310-A:13 Character. –||No person shall be eligible for licensure as a professional engineer who is not of good professional character.|||Source. 1981, 485:1, eff. July 1, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:14 - Teaching Credits.

    310-A:14 Teaching Credits. –||In considering the qualifications of applicants, engineering teaching may be construed as engineering experience.|||Source. 1981, 485:1, eff. July 1, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:15 - Education Credits.

    310-A:15 Education Credits. –||The satisfactory completion of each year of an approved curriculum in engineering in a school or college approved by the board as of satisfactory standing, without graduation, shall be considered as equivalent to a year of experience under RSA 310-A:12, II and III. Graduation in a curriculum other than engineering, but in a related field, from a college or university of recognized standing may be considered as equivalent to 2 years of experience under RSA 310-A:12, II and III; provided, however, that no applicant shall receive credit for more than 4 years of experience because of undergraduate educational qualifications. In counting years of experience, the board, at its discretion, may give credit not in excess of one year for satisfactory graduate study in engineering.|||Source. 1981, 485:1, eff. July 1, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:16 - Applications.

    310-A:16 Applications. –||Applications for licensure or for a temporary permit shall be on forms prescribed and furnished by the board, shall contain statements made under oath, showing the applicant's education and a detailed summary of the applicant's technical work, and shall contain not less than 5 references, of whom at least 3 shall be licensed professional engineers having personal knowledge of the applicant's professional experience. The board shall establish fees for application and any examination required under this subdivision. If the board denies the issuance of a license or a temporary permit to any applicant, any initial fee deposited shall be retained as an application fee.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:8. 1995, 136:5, eff. July 23, 1995; 284:13, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:17 - Examinations.

    310-A:17 Examinations. –||Proctored technical examinations in engineering shall be held at least annually as the board shall determine. If examinations are required on fundamental subjects, the applicant shall be permitted to take this part of the examination upon completion of the requisite years of professional experience. The board may issue to each applicant, upon successfully passing the examination in fundamental subjects, a certificate stating that the applicant has passed the examination. The scope of the technical and professional examination and the methods of procedure shall be prescribed by the board. A candidate failing an examination may apply for reexamination upon payment of an additional fee determined by the board and shall be reexamined on the next regularly scheduled examination date. A candidate failing the examination 3 consecutive times shall be required to furnish evidence of additional experience, study, or education credits acceptable to the board before being allowed to proceed with the examination.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1995, 136:5. 2012, 52:4. 2014, 174:3, eff. Sept. 9, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:18 - Certificates; Seals.

    310-A:18 Certificates;  Seals. –||The board shall issue a license, upon payment of the registration fee established by the board, to any applicant who, in the opinion of the board, has satisfactorily met all the requirements of this subdivision. Licenses shall show the full name of the licensee and have a serial number. The issuance of a license by the board shall be prima facie evidence that the person named in the license is entitled to all the rights and privileges of a licensed professional engineer while the license remains valid. Each licensee shall upon licensure obtain a seal of the design authorized by the board, bearing the registrant's name and the legend, "Licensed Professional Engineer." All papers or documents involving the practice of engineering under this subdivision, when issued or filed for public record, shall be dated and bear the signature and seal of the licensed professional engineer who prepared or had responsibility for and approved them. It shall be a class B misdemeanor for the licensee to stamp or seal any documents with such seal after the license of the licensee has expired or has been revoked, unless such license shall have been renewed or reissued.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1995, 136:5, eff. July 23, 1995; 284:60, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. 2021, 197:175, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:18-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:18-a - Seals for Temporary Permits.

    310-A:18-a Seals for Temporary Permits. –||All documents and papers issued under a temporary permit to practice engineering shall be stamped or otherwise noted to indicate the professional engineer's temporary permit number, the beginning and ending date of the temporary permit period, and the project name or identifying title. All such documents and papers shall be signed by the temporary permit holder.|||Source. 1989, 247:9. 1995, 284:57, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:19 - Interstate Licensure; Temporary Permit.

    310-A:19 Interstate Licensure;  Temporary Permit. –||I. Applicants who are licensed or registered in another state, provided the other state's licensing requirements are substantially equivalent to or higher than those of this state, may apply to the board for licensure.||II. Applicants who are certified by the National Council of Engineering Examiners (NCEE) may apply for licensure by having their NCEE record sent to the board and by furnishing such other information on a standard application form as the board may direct.||III. A person not a resident of and having no established place of business in this state who wishes to practice or to offer to practice engineering in this state may make application to the board for a temporary permit. A temporary permit shall be limited to practice on a specific project in this state for a period not to exceed 6 months in any one calendar year, provided such person is a licensed professional engineer in a state or country where the requirements and qualifications for obtaining a certificate of licensure are substantially equivalent to or higher than those specified in this subdivision.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:10. 1995, 136:6, eff. July 23, 1995; 284:14, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:21 - License Expiration and Renewals.

    310-A:21 License Expiration and Renewals. –||All licenses issued by the board shall expire on the last day of the month of the licensee's birth in the year 2 years following the year of issuance. The board shall cause notification of the impending license expiration to be sent to each licensee at least one month prior to the expiration of the license. If the renewal fee is not submitted within 12 months after the expiration date, the licensee's name shall be removed from current status, and application for reinstatement shall be required to return to current status. The board shall charge a 20 percent reinstatement fee for each month or fraction of a month the renewal is late, up to 12 months, in addition to the renewal fee. If a professional engineer is 70 years or older at time of renewal, and the professional engineer has held an engineering license continuously for the 10-year period immediately preceding the renewal, the board may waive the renewal fee in accordance with rules adopted by the board.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1989, 247:11. 1995, 284:16, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|