RTA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 1 — Scope of Practice
3 Exclusive use of name engineer
or other entity, except a professional engineer, licensee or permit
holder entitled to engage in the practice of engineering, shall
( a ) u s e
(i) the title "professional engi neer", the abbreviation "P.
Eng." or any other abbreviation of that title,
(i.1) repealed 2011 c3 s5,
(ii) the word "engineer" in c ombination 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 engineer, licensee or permit holder,
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(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 engineering, or
(ii) is a professional engineer , licensee or permit holder.
(2) No individual, corporation, partnership or other entity, except a
professional engineer, licensee or permit holder entitled to engage
in the practice of engineering, shall affix the stamp or seal of a
professional engineer or licensee or the permit number of a permit
holder or allow that stamp, seal or permit number to be affixed to a
plan, drawing, detail drawing, specification or other document or a
reproduction of any of them unless
(a) that plan, drawing, detail drawing, specification, 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 engineer or licensee to whom or the permit holder
to which the stamp, seal or permit number was issued.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a professional engineer,
licensee or permit holder may affix a stamp, seal or permit number,
as the case may be, to a plan, drawing, detail drawing,
specification, other document or reproduction prepared by other
persons if the professional engineer, licensee or permit holder
completes a thorough review of and accepts professional
responsibility for that plan, drawing, detail drawing, specification,
other document or reproduction.
RSA 2000 cE-11 s3;2007 c13 s5;2011 c3 s5;2023 c7 s2