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North Dakota State Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors Rules and Laws


Quiz Questions

1.

Each registrant upon registration may obtain a seal of the design authorized by the board, bearing the registrant’s name, registration number, and the legend "registered professional engineer" or "registered professional land surveyor".

True
False
2.

Final engineering drawings, specifications, maps, plats, reports, or other documents prepared by a person required to be registered under this chapter, when presented to a client, contractor, subconsultant, or any public agency, must be signed, dated, and stamped with the seal or facsimile of the seal.

Must be
Does not have to be
3. A working drawing or unfinished document must contain a statement to the effect the drawing or document is preliminary and not for construction, recording purposes, or implementation.
True
False
4. It is unlawful for a registrant to affix or permit the registrant’s seal and signature or facsimiles thereof to be affixed to any engineering drawings, specifications, maps, plats, reports, or other documents after the expiration or revocation or during the suspension of a certificate, or for the purpose of aiding and abetting any other person to evade or attempt to evade any provision of this chapter.
True
False
5. A certificate of registration expires on December thirty-first of the year of issuance if registration is on anannual basis and of the year after issuance if issued on a biennial basis and becomes invalid after that date unless renewed.The executive director for the board shall notify every registrant under this chapter of the date of the expiration of the registrant’s certificate of registration and the amount of fee required for its renewal. The notice must be mailed or electronically sent, if the registrant has opted in to receive electronic renewal notices, to the registrant at the registrant’s last-known address or electronic mail address at least one month in advance of the expiration of the registrant’s certificate.
True
False
6. An engineer ________ liable for the safety of persons or property on or about a construction project site,or for the construction techniques, procedures, sequences and schedules, orforthe conduct, action, errors, or omissions of any construction contractor, subcontractor, or material supplier, their agents or employees, unless the engineer assumes responsibility therefor by contract or by the engineer’s actual conduct.
Is not
Is
7. Nothing herein may be construed to relieve an engineer from liability for negligence, whether in the engineer’s design work or otherwise.
True
False
8. The practice or offer to practice engineering by an individual not a resident or having no established place of business in this state, if that individual is legally qualified by registration to practice engineering in another state or country that extends similar privileges to individuals registered under this chapter. However, that individual shall make an application accompanied by the appropriate application fee to the board in writing before practicing or offering to practice engineering, and may be granted aone-time temporary permit for a definite period of time not to exceed one year to do a specific job. No right to practice engineering accrues to any applicant with respect to anyother work notset forthin the temporary permit. A land surveyor may not receive a temporary permit under this subsection.
True
False
9. Any person that practices or offers to practice engineering or land surveying in this state without being registered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; any person using or employing the words "engineer", "engineering", "professional engineer", "surveyor", "land surveyor", "professional land surveyor", or any modification or derivative of these terms in that person’s name, form of business, or activity, except as authorized in this chapter; any person presenting or attempting to use the certificate of registration or the seal of another; any person giving any false or forged evidence of any kind to the board or to any member of the board in obtaining or attempting to obtain a certificate of registration; or anyperson falsely impersonating any other registrant of like or different name; any person attempting to use an expired or revoked or nonexistent certificate of registration practicing or offering to practice when not qualified; any person falsely claiming that person is registered under this chapter; or any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
True
False
10.

It is unlawful for the recorder of any county or any county or any proper public authority to file or record any map, plat, survey, or other document within the definition of land surveying which does not have impressed there on and affixed there to the personal signature and seal of a registered professional land surveyor by whom the map, plat, survey, or other document was prepared.

True
False