Current laws and rules: Engineers, land surveyors, and on-site

Engineers, land surveyors, and on-site designers and inspectors

• Combined Laws and Rules Relating to Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and On-site Designers and Inspectors

Engineers

The Laws and Rules Relating to Professional Engineers include:

• RCW 18.43: Engineers and land surveyors
• RCW 18.235: Uniform regulation of business and professions act
• RCW 58.24: State agency for surveys and maps — Fees
• WAC 196: Licensing, Department of (Engineers and Land Surveyors, Board of Registration for professional)
• WAC 332-120: Survey monuments — Removal or destruction

Land surveyors

The Laws and Rules Relating to Professional Land Surveyors include:

• RCW 18.43: Engineers and land surveyors
• RCW 18.235: Uniform regulation of business and professions act
• WAC 196: Licensing, department of (engineers and land surveyors, board of registration for professional)
• RCW 58.04: Boundaries
• RCW 58.09: Surveys — Recording
• RCW 58.17: Plats — Subdivisions — Dedications
• RCW 58.24: State agency for surveys and maps — Fees
• WAC 332-120: Survey monuments — Removal or destruction
• WAC 332-130: Minimum standards for land boundary surveys and geodetic control surveys and guidelines for the preparation of land descriptions

On-site designers and inspectors

The Laws and Rules Relating to On-site Designers and Inspectors include:

• RCW 18.210: On-site wastewater treatment systems — Designer licensing
• RCW 18.235: Uniform regulation of business and professions act
• RCW 70.118.120: Inspectors — Certificate of competency
• WAC 196-30: Fees for on-site wastewater treatment designers and inspectors
• WAC 196-32: On-site wastewater treatment system designer licenses/inspector certificates of competency
• WAC 196-33: Rules of professional practice for licensees designing on-site wastewater treatment systems
• WAC 196-34: Continuing education of licensed professional on-site wastewater treatment system designers

Related topics

• RCW 39.80: Contracts for architectural and engineering services
• RCW 58.18: Assessor’s plats
• RCW 58.19: Land Development Act
• RCW 58.20: Washington coordinate system
• RCW 58.22: State base mapping system
• RCW 70.05: Local health departments, boards, officers — Regulations
• WAC 246-272A: On-site sewage systems

Explanation of abbreviations

• RCW—Revised Code of Washington (Washington State laws)
• WAC—Washington Administrative Code (Washington State agency regulations)