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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 101

Article 75 1/2 - Professional Engineers

2.

(e) (1) "Practice of engineering" means any service
or creative work the 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, design, and inspection of construction for the
purpose of assuring compliance with specifications and
drawings in connection with any public or private utilities,
structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes,
works, systems or projects.

(2)   "Practice of engineering" does not include
the work ordinarily performed by persons who operate or
maintain machinery or equipment, geodetic surveying,
cartography, geological engineering [or], general real
estate practices, such as appraising, evaluating or
estimating the value of real property, OR THE EXECUTING AS A
CONTRACTOR, OR SUPERVISING AS A FOREMAN OR SUPERINTENDENT,
OF WORK DESIGNED BY A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER OR REGISTERED
ARCHITECT.

(3)   A person shall be construed to practice or
offer to practice engineering, within the meaning and intent
of this article if the person practices any branch of the
profession of engineering or through the use of some other
title implies that he is an engineer or that he is
registered under this article or holds himself out as able
or willing to perform or does perform any engineering
service or work or any other service designated by the
practitioner which is commonly recognized as engineering.

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[(h) The execution, as a contractor, of work designed
by a professional engineer or the supervision of the
construction of such work as a foreman or superintendent is
not the practice of engineering.]

[(i)] (H) Any person having the necessary
qualifications prescribed in this article to entitle him to
registration is eligible for registration although he may
not be practicing his profession at the time of making his
application.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 1, 1979.