Disciplinary actions: Engineers and Land surveyors

March 2009

Finding: Unprofessional conduct.
Action: License suspended, stayed for 1 year if he:
- Successfully completes Texas Tech Engineering Ethics I and II (60 hours) and documents the completion with board staff within 1 year.
- Pays $1,000 fine.

Finding: Accepted payment for work, then failed to complete the work.
Action: Washington license to practice as a professional engineer permanently retired.

Finding: Failed to meet standard of care expected and execute duties in accordance with sound engineering principles. Unprofessional conduct.
Action: Washington license to practice as a professional engineer permanently retired.

Finding: Practiced land surveying without a license.
Action: Ordered to immediately cease and desist from the unlicensed practice of land surveying.

Finding: Failed to meet standard of care expected and execute duties in accordance with sound engineering principles. Was denied 4 submittals for a building permit by the city.
Action: Reprimanded, placed on probation for 1 year, and fined $500.

Finding: Practiced land surveying without a license.
Action: Fined $2,500 and ordered to complete the New Mexico Law and Ethics course.

Finding: Performed surveys that contained errors, and failed to file surveys within the required 90 day timeframe.
Action:Voluntarily surrendered his Professional Land Surveyor’s license.

Finding: Unprofessional conduct.
Action: Reprimanded and ordered to successfully complete the “Intermediate Studies in Engineering Ethics” correspondence course within 1 year.

Finding:
- Recorded numerous incorrect surveys.
- Produced surveys that didn’t have pertinent information on them.
- Failed to conform to the Survey Recording Act.
Action: Professional Land Surveyor’s license suspended for 1 year, and placed under peer review.
- License suspension stayed upon date he complies with order to provide board staff a list of potential peer reviewers and enter into an arrangement with the reviewer within 15 days of receiving Board approval.
- The peer reviewer must submit reports on the future surveys to the board within 1 year.
- Reports on all 6 disputed surveys will be corrected to the peer reviewer’s and Board’s satisfaction and re-recorded within 1 year.

Finding: Failed to comply with previous board order.
Action: Land surveyor’s license suspended for 1 year and ordered to complete New Mexico Law and Ethics course.

Finding:
- Placed his seal and signature on work that wasn’t prepared by him or under his direct supervision.
- Accepted payment for work, then failed to complete the work.
- Unprofessional conduct.
Action:
- License suspended for 1 year, with suspension stayed for 2 years.
- License restricted so he can no longer practice as an on-site septic system designer.
- Fined $1,000.
- Ordered to meet the following requirements:
  - File as-builts referenced in order within 60 days.
  - Complete Texas Tech PDH-60 correspondence course by April 30, 2009.
  - Take and pass Washington Law and Ethics examination.
  - Within 30 days, notify Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in writing that his license is limited.
  - Enter into an agreement with a third party to provide business management services for furnishing engineering services for 3 years.