Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 37 - STATE REGISTRATION BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, LAND SURVEYORS AND GEOLOGISTS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 37.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
ABET
-The Nationally-recognized
						accrediting body that accredits undergraduate engineering programs offered by
						colleges and universities in the United States. ABET was formerly known as the
						Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.
ASBOG
-The National Association of State
						Boards of Geology.
Act
-The Engineer, Land Surveyor and
						Geologist Registration Law (63 P. S. §§
												148-158.2).
Board
-The State Registration Board for
						Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists.
Bureau
-The Bureau of Professional and
						Occupational Affairs.
Documents
-Specifications, land surveys,
						reports, plats, drawings, plans, design information and calculations.
Hearing examiner
-An individual appointed
						by the Board, with the approval of the Governor, to conduct hearings as may be
						required under the act in accordance with the act and this chapter.
Jurisdiction
-A state, territory or
						country.
NCEES
-The National Council of Examiners
						for Engineering and Surveying.
Office management
-
(i) The term includes mechanical office and
					 business skills, such as typing, speed writing, preparation of advertising
					 copy, development of sales promotion devices, word processing, calculator and
					 computer operation, and internal operations and procedures that do not have a
					 professional interest.
(ii) The
					 term does not include the use of technology in delivering engineering, land
					 surveying or geologic services.
PDH
-
Professional development
						hour
-Fifty minutes of instruction or presentation relevant to
						professional practice as defined in section 2 of the act (149).
Practice building
-
(i) Marketing or any other activity that has
					 as its primary purpose increasing the business volume or revenue of a licensee
					 or employer and does not involve the practice of engineering, land surveying or
					 geology as defined in section 2 of the act.
(ii) The term includes procuring or offering
					 to procure land surveying work for the licensee or others and managing or
					 conducting as managers, proprietors or agents any place of business from which
					 land surveying work is solicited, performed or practiced as included in the
					 definition of "practice of land surveying" in section 2(d) of the act. This
					 term includes procuring or offering to procure engineering or geologic work for
					 the licensee or others and managing or conducting as managers, proprietors or
					 agents any place of business from which engineering or geologic work is
					 solicited, performed or practiced.
(iii) The term does not include education in
					 a professional area merely because it would expand the licensee's skills
					 enabling the licensee to practice in an additional area.
The provisions of this §
													37.1 amended under sections 4(b)
						  and (l), 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 of the Engineer, Land Surveyor and Geologist
						  Registration Law (63 P.S. §§
														151(b) and
						  (l),
						  151.2,
						  151.3 and
						  151.4).