California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3 - Application of Chapter

  • Section 6730.
    In order to safeguard life, health, property and public welfare, any person, either in a public or private capacity, except as in this chapter specifically...
  • Section 6730.2.
    (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the licensure requirements that are imposed upon private sector professional engineers and engineering partnerships, firms, or corporations...
  • Section 6731.
    Civil engineering embraces the following studies or activities in connection with fixed works for irrigation, drainage, waterpower, water supply, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, municipal...
  • Section 6731.1.
    Civil engineering also includes the practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, all of the following:(a) Locates, relocates, establishes, reestablishes, or...
  • Section 6731.2.
    Any registered civil engineer may offer to practice, procure, and offer to procure, land surveying work incidental to his or her civil engineering practice, even...
  • Section 6731.3.
    A registered civil engineer may also practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, construction project management services, including, but not...
  • Section 6731.4.
    If a registered civil engineer provides construction management services pursuant to Section 6731.3, Section 6703.1 shall not limit the responsibility of the engineer for the...
  • Section 6731.5.
    (a) Electrical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.1 that embraces studies or activities relating to the generation, transmission, and utilization of...
  • Section 6731.6.
    Mechanical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.2 that deals with engineering problems relating to generation, transmission, and utilization of energy...
  • Section 6732.
    It is unlawful for anyone other than a professional engineer licensed under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other...
  • Section 6732.1.
    Any person who has been granted permission to use the title “consulting engineer” pursuant to legislation enacted at the 1963, 1965, or 1968 Regular Session...
  • Section 6732.2.
    Any person who possesses a valid certificate to practice photogrammetry issued to him under the provisions of Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8700) of this...
  • Section 6732.3.
    (a) Any person who has received from the board a license in corrosion, manufacturing, quality, or safety engineering, and who holds a valid license under this...
  • Section 6732.4.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who has applied for registration as a corrosion, quality, or safety engineer, and who has completed the...
  • Section 6732.5.
    (a) Upon the discontinuance of a national examination for a branch specified in this chapter, the board shall not be required to administer an examination for...
  • Section 6733.
    It is unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal after the certificate of the...
  • Section 6734.
    Any person practices civil engineering when he professes to be a civil engineer or is in responsible charge of civil engineering work.(Repealed and added by...
  • Section 6734.1.
    Any person practices electrical engineering when he professes to be an electrical engineer or is in responsible charge of electrical engineering work.(Amended by Stats. 1977,...
  • Section 6734.2.
    Any person practices mechanical engineering when he professes to be a mechanical engineer or is in responsible charge of mechanical engineering work.(Amended by Stats. 1977,...
  • Section 6735.
    (a) All civil (including structural and geotechnical) engineering plans, calculations, specifications, and reports (hereinafter referred to as “documents”) shall be prepared by, or under the responsible...
  • Section 6735.1.
    The signing of civil engineering plans, specifications, reports, or documents which relate to the design of fixed works shall not impose a legal duty or...
  • Section 6735.3.
    (a) All electrical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports (hereinafter referred to as “documents”) prepared by, or under the responsible charge of, a licensed electrical engineer...
  • Section 6735.4.
    (a) All mechanical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports (hereinafter referred to as “documents”) prepared by, or under the responsible charge of, a licensed mechanical engineer...
  • Section 6735.5.
    The use of the word “certify” or “certification” by a registered professional engineer in the practice of professional engineering or land surveying constitutes an expression...
  • Section 6735.6.
    If a registered civil engineer is required to provide as built, as constructed, or record plans for improvements or grading, which plans show changes during...
  • Section 6736.
    No person shall use the title, “structural engineer,” or any combination of these words or abbreviations thereof, unless he or she is a licensed civil...
  • Section 6736.1.
    (a) No person shall use the title, “soil engineer,” “soils engineer,” or “geotechnical engineer,” or any combination of these words or abbreviations thereof, unless he or...
  • Section 6737.
    An architect, who holds a certificate to practice architecture in this State under the provisions of Chapter 3 of Division 3 of this code insofar...
  • Section 6737.1.
    (a) This chapter does not prohibit any person from preparing plans, drawings, or specifications for any of the following:(1) Single-family dwellings of woodframe construction not more than...
  • Section 6737.2.
    Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a civil engineer, registered under the provisions of this chapter, from practicing or offering to practice any engineering in...
  • Section 6737.3.
    A contractor licensed under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 is exempt from the provisions of this chapter relating to the practice...
  • Section 6738.
    (a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more civil, electrical, or mechanical engineers from practicing or offering to practice, within the scope of their license,...
  • Section 6738.a.
    (a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more civil, electrical, or mechanical engineers from practicing or offering to practice within the scope of their license...
  • Section 6739.
    Officers and employees of the United States of America practicing solely as such officers or employees are exempt from registration under the provisions of this...
  • Section 6740.
    A subordinate to a civil, electrical or mechanical engineer licensed under this chapter, or a subordinate to a civil, electrical or mechanical engineer exempted from...
  • Section 6741.
    Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation is exempt from registration under the provisions of this chapter who meets all the following:(a) Is a nonresident of the...
  • Section 6742.
    Any person, firm, or corporation holding a license as real estate broker or real estate salesperson, when making appraisals and valuations of real estate properties,...
  • Section 6743.
    This chapter does not affect Chapter 15 of Division 3 of this code, relating to surveyors, except insofar as this chapter is expressly made applicable.(Added...
  • Section 6744.
    This chapter does not require registration for the purpose of practicing civil engineering, by an individual, a member of a firm or partnership, or by...
  • Section 6745.
    This chapter does not prohibit any person, firm or corporation from furnishing, either alone or with subcontractors, labor and materials, with or without plans, drawings,...
  • Section 6746.
    Plans, specifications, reports and documents relating to communication lines and equipment prepared by employees of communications companies which come under the jurisdiction of the Public...
  • Section 6746.1.
    The provisions of this chapter pertaining to licensure of professional engineers, other than civil engineers, do not apply to employees in the communications industry, nor...
  • Section 6747.
    (a) This chapter, except for those provisions that apply to civil engineers and civil engineering, shall not apply to the performance of engineering work by a...
  • Section 6748.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 6747, this chapter applies to engineering work approved by a person employed by a privately or publicly owned utility in the planning, designing,...
  • Section 6749.
    (a) A professional engineer shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional engineering services to a client pursuant to this chapter. The written contract...

Last modified: October 22, 2018