New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 40 - STATE BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS › Subchapter 1 - PURPOSE AND SCOPE; DEFINITIONS › Section 13:40-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"ABET" means the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
"Advertisement" means any communication to the public including, but not limited to, newspaper, periodical, journal, flyer, brochure, telephone directory, billboard, sign (other than a sign used only for identification purposes at the business premises), radio, telephone for the purpose of solicitation, television, Internet, or any other print or electronic media in which engineering or land surveying services are offered or by which the availability of engineering or land surveying services is made known.
"Board" means the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
"Certificate of Authorization" means a certificate issued by the Board to a general business corporation or a limited liability company to allow the practice of professional engineering and/or professional land surveying pursuant to N.J.S.A. 45:8-56 and N.J.A.C. 13:40-10.
"Closely allied professionals" means and is limited to licensed architects, professional engineers, professional land surveyors, professional planners and licensed landscape architects pursuant to 45:8-28(j)  and 45:4B-3.
"Electronic transmission" means the transmission of electronic data files from one electronic device to another. The term includes manual delivery of electronic data storage media from one person or entity to another.
"Engineer" or "professional engineer" means a person who has been duly licensed as a professional engineer by the Board.
"Engineering," "professional engineering" or "practice of engineering" means any service or creative work the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training and experience and the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to such services or creative work as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning and design of engineering works and systems, planning the use of land and water, engineering studies and the administration of construction for the purpose of determining compliance with drawings and specifications, any of which embraces such services or work, either public or private, in connection with any engineering project including: utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, projects, telecommunications, or equipment of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic or thermal nature, insofar as they involve safeguarding life, health or property, and including such other professional services as may be necessary to the planning, progress and completion of any engineering services. The practice of professional engineering does not include the work ordinarily performed by persons who operate or maintain machinery or equipment.
"Engineer-in-training" means a person who is registered as an engineer-in-training by the Board.
"Joint Committee" means the Joint Committee of Architects and Engineers established pursuant to the Building Design Services Act, 45:4B-1 et seq.
"Land information systems" means any computer coded spatial database designed for multi-purpose public use developed from or based on property boundaries.
"Land surveying" or "surveying" or "practice of land surveying" means any service or work, the adequate performance of which involves the application of special knowledge of the principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences and the relevant requirements of law to the act of measuring and locating distances, directions, elevations, natural and man-made topographical features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings, and on beds of bodies of water for the purpose of determining areas and volumes, and for the establishing of horizontal and vertical control as it relates to construction stake-out, for the monumentation of property boundaries and for platting and layout of lands and subdivisions thereof and for the preparation and perpetuation of maps, record plats, field notes, records and property descriptions in manual and computer coded form that represents these surveys. The practice of land surveying includes the establishment and maintenance of the base mapping and related control for land information systems that are developed from the practice of land surveying.
"Land surveyor" or "surveyor" means a person who has been duly licensed as a professional land surveyor by the Board.
"License" means official documents issued by the Board to an individual attesting to the fact that the individual has met the minimum requirements to practice professional engineering or professional land surveying in the State of New Jersey.
"Limited liability company," "LLC" or "L.L.C." means a business entity organized in compliance with the Limited Liability Company Act, 42:2B-1 et seq., to engage in and carry on any lawful business., purpose or activity that combines the attributes of both a corporation and a partnership and provides the limited liability generally associated with a corporation and the Federal tax treatment of a partnership.
"Limited liability partnership," "LLP" or "L.L.P." means an association of two or more persons to carry on as owners of a business for profit, which partnership is formed pursuant to an agreement governed by the law of New Jersey, is registered pursuant to N.J.S.A. 42:1-44 and is in compliance with N.J.S.A. 42:1-45.
"NCEES" means the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.
"Person" means any individual or any business association or entity.
"Professional business entity" means a sole proprietorship of a licensed professional engineer or professional land surveyor; a partnership, including a limited liability partnership, of licensed professional engineers and/or professional land surveyors; a partnership, including a limited liability partnership, of closely allied professionals, including at least one licensed professional engineer or licensed professional land surveyor; a professional service corporation of persons providing closely allied professional services as defined by 14A:17-3, including at least one licensed engineer or licensed professional land surveyor, established pursuant to the Professional Service Corporation Act, 14A:17-1 et seq.; or a limited liability company or a corporation either of which is required to hold a Certificate of Authorization from the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:40-10.
"Responsible charge" means the rendering of regular and effective supervision by a competent professional engineer or professional land surveyor to those individuals performing services that directly and materially affect the quality and competence of the professional services rendered by the licensee.
"Seal" means a digital or impression type seal meeting the requirements of N.J.A.C. 13:40-8.1A and affixed to a document by a licensee.
"Signature" means a digital or handwritten signature of a licensee affixed to a document in accordance with N.J.A.C. 13:40-8.1A.
"Surveyor-in-training" means a person who is registered as a surveyor-in-training by the Board.
"Telecommunications" means subjects which deal with the generation, transmission, receiving, and processing of information bearing signals for the purpose of fulfilling a particular communication need. The most common forms of signals are those encountered in voice, image, and data transmission. Subjects relevant to telecommunications include but are not limited to: analog and digital circuits, propagation of electromagnetic energy through guided media such as a transmission line, fibers, wave guides, and unguided media such as free space as in broadcast and mobile communication systems, communication theory, including modulation, noise interference, and the interface with computers.