The Florida Senate

471.005  Definitions.--As used in ss. 471.001-471.037, the term:

(1)  "Board" means the Board of Professional Engineers.

(2)  "Certificate of authorization" means a license to practice engineering issued by the department to a corporation or partnership.

(3)  "Department" means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

(4)  "Engineer" includes the terms "professional engineer" and "registered engineer" and means a person who is registered to engage in the practice of engineering under ss. 471.001-471.037.

(5)  "Engineer intern" means a person who has graduated from, or is in the final year of, an engineering curriculum approved by the board and has passed the fundamentals of engineering examination as provided by rules adopted by the board.

(6)  "Engineering" includes the term "professional engineering" and means any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to such services or creative work as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, and design of engineering works and systems, planning the use of land and water, teaching of the principles and methods of engineering design, engineering surveys, and the inspection of construction for the purpose of determining in general if the work is proceeding in compliance with drawings and specifications, any of which embraces such services or work, either public or private, in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, projects, and industrial or consumer products or equipment of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or thermal nature, insofar as they involve safeguarding life, health, or property; and includes such other professional services as may be necessary to the planning, progress, and completion of any engineering services. A person who practices any branch of engineering; who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, or card, or in any other way, represents himself or herself to be an engineer or, through the use of some other title, implies that he or she is an engineer or that he or she is registered under ss. 471.001-471.037; or who holds himself or herself out as able to perform, or does perform, any engineering service or work or any other service designated by the practitioner which is recognized as engineering shall be construed to practice or offer to practice engineering within the meaning and intent of ss. 471.001-471.037.

(7)  "License" means the registration of engineers or certification of businesses to practice engineering in this state.

History.--ss. 2, 42, ch. 79-243; ss. 4, 10, ch. 81-302; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 4, ch. 83-160; s. 4, ch. 84-365; ss. 2, 14, 15, ch. 89-30; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 151, ch. 94-218; s. 331, ch. 97-103.