North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS › Chapter 56 - ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS › Section .0900 - BUSINESS ENTITIES: GENERAL › Section 56 .0901 - OFFICES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) Professional
				Engineering Services. Every firm, partnership, corporation or limited liability
				company that performs or offers to perform engineering services in the State of
				North Carolina shall have a resident Professional Engineer in responsible
				charge in each separate office located in North Carolina where professional
				engineering services are performed or offered to be performed. Out-of-state
				office locations where engineering services are performed or offered to be
				performed for North Carolina projects shall have Professional Engineers in
				responsible charge of only the specific projects in compliance with Rule
				.0701(c)(3) of this Chapter.
(b)
				Land Surveying Services. Every firm, partnership, corporation or limited
				liability company that performs or offers to perform land surveying services in
				the State of North Carolina shall have a resident Professional Land Surveyor in
				responsible charge in each separate office located in North Carolina where land
				surveying services are performed or offered to be performed. Out-of-state
				office locations where surveying services are performed or offered to be
				performed for North Carolina projects are only required to have Professional
				Land Surveyors in responsible charge of the specific projects in compliance
				with Rule .0701(c)(3) of this Chapter.
(c) Resident. The terms "resident
				Professional Engineer" or "resident Professional Land Surveyor" as used in this
				Rule, means a licensee who spends a majority of the licensee's normal working
				time in that office. Such time shall not be less than a majority of the
				operating hours of the business. A Professional Engineer or Professional Land
				Surveyor shall be the resident licensee at only one place of business at one
				time unless each business is at least one-third owned by the resident
				professional. This arrangement shall be specifically approved by the Board
				after a determination that the businesses are integrated in operation,
				ownership, office location and that the licensee will be in responsible charge
				of the professional services.
(d)
				No firm, partnership, corporation or limited liability company shall practice,
				offer to practice, or market either land surveying or engineering unless there
				is a licensed resident for that service in responsible charge at that office.
				Advertisements, signs, letterheads, business cards, directories, or any other
				form of representation shall avoid any reference to any service that cannot be
				provided under the responsible charge of a properly qualified resident
				professional. The licensed entity shall give notice to the Board of a change of
				resident professional within 30 days after the change and shall not practice,
				offer to practice, or market the professional service during any period of time
				without a resident professional.
Authority
				  G.S.
				  57D-2-02: 89C-10; 89C-24;
Eff.
				  February 1, 1976;
Readopted Eff. September 29, 1977;
Amended Eff. August 1, 2014; August 1, 2002; April 1, 2001; August 1, 1998; May
				  1, 1994; January 1, 1992; April 1, 1989;
Pursuant to
				  G.S.
				  150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
				  substantive public interest Eff. April 27,
				  2019.