Alabama Administrative Code › Title 364 - ALABAMA BOARD OF LICENSURE FOR PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGISTS › Chapter 364-X-2 - DEFINITIONS › Section 364-X-2-.01 - Definition Of Terms

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
The following terms are hereby defined:
(1) "Board" shall mean The Alabama Board of
			 Licensure for Professional Geologists.
(2) "Geologist" is a person who holds a
			 degree in the geological sciences from an accredited college or
			 university.
(3)
			 "Geologist-in-Training" is a person who holds a degree in the geological
			 sciences from an accredited college or university and who has successfully
			 passed the part of the professional examination covering fundamental or
			 academic geological subjects.
(4)
			 "Geology" is the science dealing with the earth and its history; its
			 constituent rocks, minerals, liquids, gases, and other materials of which it is
			 composed, and the study of the processes responsible for the development and
			 change in the component parts of the earth, for the benefit of
			 mankind.
(5) "Good moral character"
			 shall mean that character that tends to ensure the faithful discharge of the
			 professional duties of the licensed professional geologist based on truth and
			 adherence to ethical principles.
(6) "License" shall be interpreted as a
			 certificate issued by the Board recognizing the individual named in this
			 certificate as meeting the requirements for licensing under this act.
(7) "Licensed Professional Geologist" is the
			 title for a person who holds a license as a professional geologist under this
			 act.
(8) "Public practice of
			 geology" for purposes of these rules and also for purposes of the application
			 of Sections
			 34-41-1,
et
			 seq
. of the
Code of Ala. 1975
, shall mean
			 the performance of geological service or work, including, but not limited to,
			 consultation, geological investigation, surveys, evaluations, planning,
			 mapping, or review of geological work related to the public practice of
			 geology, or both, in which the performance is related to the public welfare or
			 safeguarding of life, health, property, and the environment except as otherwise
			 specifically provided by the Section
			 34-41-1,
et
			 seq
. of the
Code of Ala. 1975
. A person
			 publicly practices or offers to publicly practice geology if the person does
			 any of the following:
(a) Offers to or
			 provides geological work or services to the public in any discipline of the
			 profession of geology.
(b)
			 Represents himself or herself to be a licensed professional geologist by verbal
			 claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, or in another way.
(c) Implies that he or she is a licensed
			 professional geologist or that he or she is registered under this act through
			 the used of some other title.
(d)
			 Holds himself or herself out as one who performs or is able to perform any
			 geological services or work recognized by the Board as the public practice of
			 geology.
For purposes of these rules and for purposes of
Code of Ala. 1975
, §
										24-41-1,
et
				seq
., "geological services or work" shall include the following
				tasks and practices:
Geologic and hydrogeologic logging of wells; geologic and
				hydrogeologic cross sections and associated interpretations; geologic and
				hydrogeologic surveys and reports; interpretations of geologic formations and
				aquifers from regional and site data; interpretation of uppermost aquifer;
				interpretation of confined or unconfined aquifers from well logs; evaluation of
				perched ground water conditions using well logs; surficial geologic mapping;
				subsurface geologic mapping; interpretation of hydrogeologic flow
				characteristics; sedimentation and sediment geochemistry; interpretation of
				geologic and hydrogeologic characteristics from geophysical logs; mineralogic
				and petrologic petrographic evaluations.
These tasks and services, however, are not exhaustive of the
				tasks and services that may, upon request, be recognized and approved by the
				Board geological services or geological work.