Alabama Administrative Code › Title 330 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS › Chapter 330-X-15 - COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT › Section 330-X-15-.01 - Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Section
			 34-11-9,
Code of Ala. 1975
, provides that a firm, company,
			 partnership, or corporation may engage or offer to engage in the practice of
			 professional engineering or professional land surveying; provided, the managing
			 agent of the corporation or firm or partners of the partnership and all
			 personnel of the corporation, partnership, or firm who act in its behalf as
			 professional engineers or professional land surveyors in this state are
			 licensed as provided by Title 34, Chapter 11 of the
Code of Ala.
			 1975
, and further provided, that the corporation, partnership, or
			 firm has been issued a certificate of authorization by the Board.
(2) In order to be considered eligible for a
			 certificate of authorization (CA), every firm, partnership, or corporation or
			 other entity which performs engineering or land surveying services in the State
			 of Alabama, shall have a resident licensed professional engineer or licensed
			 professional land surveyor as the case may be, who exercises direct control and
			 personal supervision of the engineering or land surveying work for each
			 separate office or branch office in which engineering or land surveying
			 services are performed or offered to be performed. The resident engineer or
			 land surveyor shall be an employee of the firm, corporation, partnership, or
			 association or other entity, engaged in the practice of engineering or land
			 surveying, designated in the CA for the branch office. The managing agent and
			 the designated resident engineer or land surveyor shall only be for one
			 business location.
(3) An engineer
			 or land surveyor who renders occasional or part-time engineering or surveying
			 services to or for a firm may not be designated as being the managing agent of
			 the professional activities of the firm or as being the resident engineer or
			 land surveyor designated in the CA for the branch office.
(4) The managing agent is responsible for
			 notifying the Board within 30 days of any change in the firm name, address,
			 managing agent, or resident engineer or land surveyor during the
			 year.
(5) In the event of a change
			 in the managing agent, the firm cannot perform engineering or land surveying
			 services until such time as a new managing agent is identified to the
			 Board.
(6) In the event of a change
			 in the CA designated branch office resident engineer or land surveyor,
			 engineering or land surveying services cannot be offered or performed from that
			 office location until such time as a new resident engineer or land surveyor is
			 identified to the Board.
(7)
			 Failure by the firm or managing agent to provide notification within 30 days
			 may result in a temporary suspension of the certificate and the certificate
			 will remain suspended until such time as the requirements are met.
Author:
Rick Huett (Executive Director), Bonnie
				  Kelly and Griffin Pritchard, Alabama State Board of Registration for
				  Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §§
										34-11-9,
				  34-11-35.