Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LXI - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors › Chapter 25 - Professional Conduct › Section LXI-2505 - Services

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Licensees shall
				provide services only in the area of their competence.
B. Licensees shall undertake assignments only
				when qualified by education or experience in the specific technical fields of
				engineering or land surveying involved.
C. Licensees shall not affix their signatures
				or seals to any documents dealing with subject matters in which they lack
				competence, nor to any such document not prepared by them or under their
				responsible charge. Responsible charge requires a licensee to have client
				contact, provide internal and external financial control, oversee training of
				subordinates, and exercise control and supervision overall job requirements to
				include research, planning, design, field supervision and work product review.
				A licensee shall not contract with a non-licensed individual to provide these
				professional services. Other types of research, such as land title searches and
				material testing, may be contracted to a non-licensed individual, provided the
				licensee reviews the work. Licensees may affix their seal, signature and date
				to documents depicting the work of two or more licensees or other related
				design professionals provided that a note under the seal designates the
				specific subject matter for which each is responsible.
D. Licensees may accept an assignment outside
				of their areas of competence to the extent that their services are restricted
				to those phases of the project in which they are qualified, and to the extent
				that they are satisfied that all other phases of such project will be performed
				or supervised by other licensees, in which case they may then seal, sign and
				date the documents for the whole project.
E. In the event a question arises as to the
				competence of a licensee in a specific technical field which cannot be
				otherwise resolved to the board's satisfaction, the board, either upon request
				of the licensee or on its own volition, may require the licensee to take an
				appropriate examination or quiz or submit to an appropriate
				interview.
F. Firms may offer
				and/or provide a combination of engineering and construction services in
				connection with a design-build project in Louisiana without obtaining a firm
				license from the board, provided that:
1.
				prior to the execution of the contract for the project, the firm obtains an
				authorization certificate from the board by filing, on a form approved by the
				board, a written disclosure on which it shall designate a professional engineer
				(professional of record) licensed in Louisiana to be in responsible charge of
				all engineering services offered and/or provided by the firm for such project;
2. the professional of record and
				an officer of the firm sign the written disclosure submitted to the board,
				identifying the professional of record's role in the project and certifying
				that the professional of record will be in responsible charge of all
				engineering services offered and/or provided by the firm for the
				project;
3. all engineering
				services offered and/or provided by the firm for the project are performed by
				or under the responsible charge of the professional of record; and
4. in the event such professional of record's
				services terminate with respect to the project or his/her role in the project
				otherwise changes, then within five business days:
a. both the firm and the professional of
				record shall notify the board in writing of such termination or change;
				and
b. the firm shall file with the
				board a new written disclosure designating a new professional of record
				employed by the firm and licensed in Louisiana to be in responsible charge of
				all engineering services offered and/or provided by the firm for such
				project.