2886 .. ARTICLE 75 1/2

1939, ch. 752, sec. 20.

20. (Violations and Penalties.) Any person who shall hold themselves
out as a professional engineer or land surveyor in this State without being
registered in. accordance with the provisions of this Article, or any person
presenting or attempting to use as his own the certificate of registration
or the seal of another, or any person who shall give any false or forged
evidence of any kind to the Board or to any member thereof in obtaining a
certificate of registration, or any person who shall falsely impersonate any
other registrant of like or different name, or any person who shall attempt
to use a revoked certificate of registration, or any person who shall violate
any of the provisions of this Article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00),
or suffer imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or both.

The Attorney General of the State or his assistant shall act as legal
adviser of the Board and render such legal assistance as may be necessary
in carrying out the provisions of this Article.

1939, ch. 752, sec. 21.

21. (Saving Clause.) This Article shall not be construed to prevent
or to affect:

(a) (Other Professions or Trades.) The practice of any other legally
recognized profession or trade; or

(b) (Non-Residents.) The practice of a person not a resident of and
having no established place of business in this State, practicing or offering
to practice herein the profession of engineering or land surveying, when
such practice does not exceed in the aggregate more than thirty days in
any calendar year; provided, such person is legally qualified by registra-
tion to practice the said profession in his own State or Country in which
the requirements and qualifications for obtaining a certificate of registra-
tion are not lower than those specified in this Article; or

(c) (Recent Arrivals in State.) The practice of a person not a resident
of and having no established place of business in this State, or who has
recently become a resident thereof, practicing or offering to practice herein
for more than thirty days in any calendar year the profession of engineer-
ing or land surveying, if he shall have filed with the Board an application
for a certificate of registration and shall have paid the fee required by this
Article; provided, that such a person is legally qualified by registration to
practice said profession in his own State or Country in which the require-
ments and qualifications for obtaining a certificate of registration are not
lower than those specified in this Article. Such practice shall continue only
for such time as the Board requires for the consideration of the applica-
tion for registration; or

(d) (Employees and Subordinates.) The work of an employee or a
subordinate of a person holding a certificate of registration under this
Article, or an employee of a person practicing lawfully under paragraphs
(b) or (c) of this Section; provided, such work is done under the direct
responsibility and supervision of a person holding a certificate of registra-
tion under this Article or a person practicing lawfully under Paragraphs
(b) or (c) of this Section; or

(e) (Government Officers and Employees.) The practice of officers and
employees of the Government of the United States while engaged within