Chap. 231.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 16 of an
act entitled an act to provide for the examination and *ertifeation of profes-
sional engineers, architects and land surveyors; and to regulate the practice
of engineering, architecture and land surveying; to establish their relation to
public works and the surveying and platting of land, approved March SB 1920.

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Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three, five, six, seven, eight, twelve and sixteen of an act entitled an
act to provide for the examination and certification of professional
engineers, architects, and land surveyors; and to regulate the practice
of engineering, architecture and land surveying; to establish their rela-
tion to public works and the surveying and platting of land, approved
March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3. The said board shall hold at least one examination each
year, 1n the city of Richmond or at such other place or places as the board
may designate at such times as it may prescribe by general rule or special
order. It shall issue a certificate to practice as a certified professional
engineer, a certified architect or a certified land surveyor in this State
to every applicant who shall have complied with the requirements of
this act and the rules of the board, which certificates shall be signed by
at least four members of the board.

Section 5. In order to defray the compensation and expenses above
provided, and any other expenses incident to the proper discharge of the
duties of the board, each applicant for a certificate to practice as a pro-
fessional engineer, architect, or land surveyor, as the case may be, in
this State, shall pay the secretary of the board a fee of twenty-five
dollars for each examination in any branch as defined in this act. Five
dollars of this fee shall be returned if certificate be not granted. Cer-
tificates of registration shall expire on the last day of the month of
December following their issuance or renewal, and shall become invalid
on that date unless renewed. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the
board, to notify by mail every person certified hereunder of the date of
the expiration of his certificate and the amount of the fee required for
its renewal for one year; such notices shall be mailed at least one month
in advance of the date of the expiration of said certificate. Renewal
may be effected at any time during the month of January by the payment
to the secretary of the board of a fee of five dollars by professional en-
gineers and architects or two dollars and fifty cents by land surveyors.
The failure on the part of any registrant to renew his certificate annually
in the month of January, as required above, shall not deprive such person
of the right of renewal thereafter, but the fee paid for the renewal of a
certificate after the month of January, shall be increased ten per centum
for each month or fraction of a month that payment for renewal is de-
layed; provided, however, that the maximum fee for a delayed renewal
shall not exceed twice the normal fee. If any surplus accumulates from
such fees over and above the sum of one thousand dollars, such surplus
shall be paid into the literary fund of the State by the secretary of the
board at the end of each calendar year. An itemized account of all
receipts and expenditures of the said board shall be kept by its secretary,
and a detailed report thereof at the end of each calendar year, duly
verified by the affidavit of the said secretary, shall be filed with the
auditor of public accounts.

Section 6. In order to safeguard life, health and property, any
person practicing or offering to practice as an architect, a professional
engineer, or a land surveyor in this State shall hereafter be required to
submit reasonable evidence to the board that he or she is qualified so to
practice and to be certified as herein provided; and from and after Jan-
uary first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, it shall be unlawful for
any person to practice or offer to practice in this State as an architect,
a professional engineer, or a land surveyor except under the provisions
of this act.

Section 7. Any citizen of the United States or any person who has
declared his intention of becoming such citizen, being at least twenty-
one years of age, of good character, who has had not less than four years
of actual practical experience in architectural work or professional en-
gineering work, or two years in the case of land surveying, under the
direction or supervision of a certified architect, a certified professional
engineer, or a certified land surveyor, or of an architect or professional
engineer or land surveyor of equivalent professional standing; or who
is a graduate in architecture, or engineering of a college or school of
recognized standing, may, upon payment of the fee prescribed in this act,
apply for a certificate under this act; but, before receiving such certifi-
cate, he shall satisfactorily pass an examination in such professional sub-
jects as may be prescribed by the board and satisfy it as to his practical
experience, general standing and ability; provided, that time spent as
a student of architecture, engineering or land surveying in a college or
school of recognized standing shall be considered the cquivalent of an
equal amount of practical experience. But any person residing in or
having a place of business in this State who shall satisfy the board that
he has been engaged in the practice of professional engineering or archi-
tecture for not less than six years or land surveying for not less than one
year before this act takes effect shall be granted a certificate without
examination, upon the payment to the said board of a fee of twenty
dollars, five dollars of which shall be returned if certificate be not granted
in the case of professional engineers and architects, and upon the pay-
ment of a fee of two dollars in the case of land surveyors, and further
provided that certificates granted to land surveyors without examina-
tion as aforesaid shall be permanent certificates and the holders thereof
shall not be required to renew the same annually. In determining the
qualifications of applicants for certification as architects, a majority
vote of the architect members of the board only shall be required; in
determining the qualifications of applicants for certification as profes-
sional engineers, a majority vote of the engineer members of the board
only shall be required; and in determining the qualifications of applicants
for certification as land surveyors, a majority vote of the land surveyor
members of the board only shall be required.

Section 8. The following shall be exempted from the provisions of
this act:

a. Practice of professional engineering or land surveying by a cer-
tified architect, or practice of architecture or land surveying by a certi-
fied professional engineer; provided, that the person so practicing shall
use only the title or titles to which his certificate or certificates entitle

im.

b. Practice as a professional engineer, architect, or land surveyor
in this State by a person not a resident of this State and having no es-
tablished place of business in this State, when his practice in responsible
charge of work does not aggregate more than fifteen days in any calendar
year; provided, that said person is legally qualified for such professional
service in his own State or country.

c. Practice as a professional engineer, architect, or land surveyor
in this State by any person not a resident of and having no established
place of business in this State, or any person resident in this State, but
whose arrival is recent; provided, however, that such person shall have
filed an application for certification as a professional engineer, architect,
or land surveyor, and shall have paid the fee provided for in sections
five or seven of this act. Such exemption shall continue for only such
reasonable time as the board requires in which to consider and grant or
deny the said application for certification.

d. Engaging in professional engineering, architecture, or land sur-
veying as an employee under a certified professional engineer, a certified
architect, or a certified land surveyor, provided that said practice may
not include responsible charge of design or supervision.

e. Practice of professional engineering, architecture, or land sur-
veying solely as an officer or as an employee of the United States.

f. Practice of professional engineering, architecture, or land sur-
veying solely as.an employee of this State or any political subdivision
thereof at the time this act becomes effective, and thereafter only until
the expiration of the then existing term of office of such employee.

g. Practice of architecture or professional engineering by an indi-
vidual, firm or corporation on property owned or leased by said indi-
vidual, firm or corporation, unless the same involves the public health
or safety.
Section 12. After January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five,
the practice of architecture, or professional engineering, or the use by
any person of the title of architect, or professional engineer, or land sur-
veyor, of the use of any word, figure or letters, indicating or intended to
imply that the person using the same is an architeet, or a professional
engineer or a land surveyor, without compliance with the provision of
this act, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and such person shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars for each such offense.

The term architect, as used in this act, shall be deemed to cover an
architect or an architectural engineer. The term professional engineer,
as used in this act, shall be deemed to cover a civil engineer, mechanical
engineer, electrical engineer, mining engineer, metallurgical engineer,
or a chemical engineer. Land surveying as covered by this act, refers
only to surveys for the determination of areas or for the establishment or
re-establishment of land boundaries and the subdivision of land and
such topographic work as may be incident thereto, the making of plats
and maps and the preparing of descriptions of the lands and lines so
surveyed or investigated.

Section 16. The board may upon application therefor on prescribed
form and the payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars, issue a certificate
of registration as an architect or as a professional engineer, or as a land
surveyor, to any person who holds a like unexpired certificate or regis-
tration issued to him by proper authority in the District of Columbia,
in any State or Territory of the United States, or in any province of
Canada, in which the requirements for the registration of architects,
professional engineers or land surveyors are of a standard satisfactory
to the board; provided, however, that reciprocal privileges be granted
to citizens of the State.