CPA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 1 — Scope of Practice
6 Exclusive use of name geoscientist
a professional geoscientist or a licensee or permit holder entitled to
engage in the practice of geoscience, shall
( a ) u s e
(i) the title "professional geoscientist", the abbreviation "P .
Geo." or any other abbreviation of that title,
(ii) the word "geoscientist" i n combination with any other
name, title, description, letter, symbol or abbreviation
that represents expressly or by implication that the
individual, corporation, partnership or other entity is a
professional geoscientist, licensee or permit holder,
o r
(b) represent or hold out, expre ssly or by implication, that the
individual, corporation, partnership or other entity
(i) is entitled to engage in the practice of geoscience, or
(ii) is a professional geoscien tist, licensee or permit holder.
(2) No individual, corporation, partnership or other entity, except a
professional geoscientist or a licensee or permit holder entitled to
engage in the practice of geoscience, shall affix the stamp or seal of
a professional geoscientist or licensee or the permit number of a
permit holder or allow that stamp, seal or permit number to be
affixed to a map, geoscientific cross-section, specification, report
or other document or a reproduction of any of them unless
(a) that map, geoscientific cro ss-section, specification, report,
other document or reproduction was prepared by or under
the supervision and control of, and
RSA 2000
ENGINEERING AND GEOSCIENCE
(b) the stamp, seal or permit number is affixed with the
knowledge and consent or in accordance with the direction
of
the professional geoscientist or licensee to whom or the permit
holder to which the stamp, seal or permit number was issued.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a professional geoscientist,
licensee or permit holder may affix a stamp, seal or permit number,
as the case may be, to a map, geoscientific cross-section,
specification, report, other document or reproduction prepared by
other persons if the professional geoscientist, licensee or permit
holder completes a thorough review of and accepts professional
responsibility for that map, geoscientific cross-section,
specification, report, other document or reproduction.
RSA 2000 cE-11 s6;2007 c13 s7;2011 c3 s6
7 and 8 Repealed 2011 c3 s6.