2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 8 - The Professions › Article 145 - Engineering, Land Surveying and Geology › 7208 - Exempt Persons for the Professions of Engineering and Land Surveying.

§ 7208.  Exempt  persons  for  the professions of engineering and land
  surveying. This article shall not be construed to affect or prevent  the
  following, provided that no title, sign, card or device shall be used in
  such  manner  as  to  tend  to  convey  the  impression  that the person
  rendering such service is a professional engineer  or  a  land  surveyor
  licensed in this state or is practicing engineering or land surveying:
a.  Offering  to  practice in this state as a professional engineer or
  land surveyor by any person not a resident of, and having no established
  place of practice in this state, provided that such  person  is  legally
  qualified for such practice in his own state or country;
b.  Practice as a professional engineer or land surveyor in this state
  by any person not a resident, or having no established place of practice
  in this state, or any person resident in this state but who has  arrived
  in  this state within six months, provided, however, such a person shall
  have filed an application for license as a professional engineer or land
  surveyor, and is legally qualified for such practice  in  the  state  or
  country  in which he resides or has his place of practice or in which he
  had  his  previous  residence  or  place  of  practice,  such  exemption
  continuing  for only such reasonable time as the board requires to grant
  or deny the application for license, and a person intending to  practice
  under this subdivision shall so state on the application;
c.  Practice  of  engineering  or  land surveying, by an employee of a
  county or town, in the construction, improvement  or  maintenance  of  a
  county  road  or town highway, or by an employee of a county, city, town
  or village, in the  construction,  improvement  or  maintenance  of  any
  public  work  wherein  the  contemplated  expenditure  for the completed
  project does not exceed five thousand dollars;
d. Operation or maintenance of steam, power, or  refrigeration  plants
  by legally authorized persons not licensed under this article or persons
  engaged  or  employed as an engine man, operator or driver of any engine
  or of any mechanical, electrical, chemical or other device or machine;
e. Making of  surveys  by  professional  engineers,  except  that  the
  determination of real property boundaries may be done only by a licensed
  land surveyor;
f.  Employment or supervision of interns or other persons qualified by
  education or experience by professional engineers or land  surveyors  as
  assistants  in  the  performance of engineering or land surveying, or as
  consultants or employees in special fields related to but  not  uniquely
  engineering  or  land  surveying,  provided  that  the engineers or land
  surveyors employing or supervising such persons shall not be relieved of
  any  responsibility  whatsoever  by  delegation  to  such  persons,  and
  provided  further  that  such  persons  who have attained the bachelor's
  level  of  studies  in  accordance  with  the  requirements  of  section
  seventy-two  hundred  six  of  this  title  may be employed as junior or
  assistant engineers or junior or assistant land  surveyors,  or  similar
  titles, to act under the general direction of a professional engineer or
  land surveyor, or in work not covered by this article;
g.  Employment  of  any  person  as  a junior or assistant engineer or
  junior or assistant land surveyor in the civil service of the  state  or
  its political subdivisions in a position the title of which was approved
  and in use as of July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one, provided such
  person  acts  under  the  general  direction  of a licensed professional
  engineer or land surveyor;
h. Execution by a contractor or  by  others  of  work  designed  by  a
  professional  engineer, or land surveyor, or the superintendence of such
  work as a superintendent, foreman, or inspector;
i. The practice of architecture  by  an  architect  licensed  in  this
  state,  or  the  practice  of  landscape  architecture  by  a  landscape

  architect licensed in this state, provided that  no  such  architect  or
  landscape   architect   shall   use   the   designation   "engineer"  or
  "engineering" unless licensed as a professional engineer in this state;
j.  The  practice of engineering or land surveying or having the title
  "engineer" or "surveyor" solely as  an  officer  or  an  employee  of  a
  corporation engaged in interstate commerce;
k.  The  practice  of engineering by a manufacturing corporation or by
  employees of such corporation, or use of the title  "engineer"  by  such
  employees,  in  connection  with  or incidental to goods produced by, or
  sold by, or nonengineering services rendered by, such corporation or its
  manufacturing affiliates;
l. The practice of engineering or land surveying, or using  the  title
  "engineer"  or "surveyor" (i) exclusively as an officer or employee of a
  public  service  corporation  by  rendering  to  such  corporation  such
  services  in connection with its lines and property which are subject to
  supervision with respect to the  safety  and  security  thereof  by  the
  public  service  commission  of  this  state,  the  interstate  commerce
  commission or other federal regulatory body and so long as  such  person
  is  thus  actually  and  exclusively  employed  and  no  longer, or (ii)
  exclusively as an officer or employee of the Long Island power authority
  or its service provider, as defined under section three-b of the  public
  service law, by rendering to such authority or provider such services in
  connection  with  its  lines  and  property  which  are  located in such
  authority's service area and so long as such person is thus actually and
  exclusively employed and no longer;
m. The making of land surveys by a professional  engineer  where  such
  land  surveys  are  essential  to  engineering projects, provided he was
  licensed as a professional engineer in this state on or before the first
  day of January in the year in which this act  shall  become  a  law  and
  files  evidence  satisfactory to the board on or before the first day of
  July in the year next succeeding the year in which this act  shall  have
  become law, that he is competent and experienced in such land surveys;
n.  The  design by a land surveyor of roads, drainage, water supply or
  sanitary sewerage facilities  of  a  minor  nature  in  connection  with
  subdivisions and the extension and inspection thereof, but not including
  sewage  disposal  or  treatment plants, lift stations, pumping stations,
  commercial buildings or bridges, provided the surveyor was licensed as a
  land surveyor in this state on or before the first day of January in the
  year in which this act shall  have  become  a  law  and  files  evidence
  satisfactory to the board on or before the first day of July in the year
  next  succeeding  the  year  in  which this act shall have become a law,
  attesting that he  is  competent  and  experienced  in  the  engineering
  required for design of such facilities appurtenant to subdivisions; or
o. Using the title "marine operating engineer", "stationary engineer",
  "port of customs surveyor", or "ship surveyor".
p.  Contractors  or  builders from engaging in construction management
  and administration of construction contracts.