§ 33-29-201 — Definitions

Wyoming § 33-29-201

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 33: Professions and Occupations
• Ch. 29: SURVEYORS AND ENGINEERS
• Art. 2: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Board" means the Wyoming board of professional
engineers and professional land surveyors;
(ii) "Business entity" means a corporation, limited
liability company, partnership, limited partnership, limited
liability partnership or any other form of business except a
sole proprietorship;
(iii) "Engineer intern" means an individual who is
certified by the board as an engineer intern;
(iv) "Jurisdiction" means a licensing agency,
including agencies outside of the United States;
(v) "Land surveyor intern" means an individual who
is certified by the board as a land surveyor intern;
(vi) "Licensee" means a professional engineer or
professional land surveyor licensed by the board;
(vii) "Practice of professional engineering" means
performing for others or offering to perform for others any
"professional service" or "professional creative work" requiring
engineering education, training and experience and special
knowledge of mathematics, physics and engineering sciences. An
individual performs "a professional service" or "professional
creative work" in the practice of professional engineering if
he:
(A) Represents himself to be a professional
engineer by sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, verbal claim
or any other manner;
(B) Quotes a fee for a professional engineering
service;
(C) Executes a contract or agreement for a
professional engineering service;
(D) Teaches upper division engineering design
subjects as a professional engineer at a college or university;
(E) Performs research investigations as a
professional engineer;
(F) Testifies as an expert in professional
engineering; or
(G) Holds himself out as able to perform or does
perform, as a professional engineer, any similar service defined
by board rule as the practice of professional engineering.
(viii) "Practice of professional land surveying"
means performing for others or offering to perform for others
"professional services" which involve the application of special
knowledge or principles of mathematics and methods of
measurement for the determination and preservation of land
boundaries and for the determination of land features and forms.
An individual performs a "professional service" in the practice
of professional land surveying if he:
(A) As a professional land surveyor, makes
geometric measurements and gathers related information
pertaining to the physical or legal features of the earth,
improvements on the earth and the space above, on or below the
earth;
(B) Teaches, as a professional land surveyor,
upper division university level land surveying design subjects;
(C) Performs professional land surveying
research as a professional land surveyor;
(D) As a professional land surveyor, creates
work product relating to land surveying such as graphics, data,
maps, plans, reports and descriptions;
(E) Represents himself to be a professional land
surveyor by sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, verbal claim
or any other way;
(F) Testifies as an expert in professional land
surveying; or
(G) Holds himself out as able to perform or does
perform, as a professional land surveyor, any similar service
defined by board rule as professional land surveying.
(ix) "Professional engineer" means an individual who,
by reason of intensive preparation in the use of mathematics,
physics and engineering sciences including the principles and
methods of engineering analysis and design, is qualified to
practice professional engineering and is licensed under this
act;
(x) "Professional land surveyor" means an individual
who by reason of specialized knowledge in the technique of
measuring land, mathematics, physical and applied sciences, and
legal requirements of surveying real property, is qualified to
practice professional land surveying and is licensed under this
act;
(xi) "Responsible charge" means the exercise of
direct control or the personal supervision of engineering work
by a professional engineer or surveying work by a professional
land surveyor;
(xii) "This act" means W.S. 33-29-201 through