Assembly Bill No. 146–Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

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AN ACT relating to professions; requiring the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors to submit annual reports regarding certain activities of the Board to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau; revising the membership of the Board; requiring the Board to hold an examination for an applicant for a license under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to provide its authorized design for a stamp to a retailer or manufacturer under certain circumstances; exempting certain laser scanner operators from the licensure requirements applicable to professional engineers and land surveyors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1. Chapter 625 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

 thereto a new section to read as follows:

    1.  On or before February 1 of each year, the Board shall

 submit a report to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau

 for distribution to each member of the Senate Standing

 Committee on Commerce and Labor and the Assembly Standing

 Committee on Commerce and Labor.

    2.  Each report submitted pursuant to subsection 1 must

 include the following information for the previous calendar year:

    (a) The number of persons who relied upon the provisions of

 this chapter relating to education to qualify for the issuance of a

 license, the results of each examination taken by each of those

 persons and a statement indicating whether the Board issued a

 license to each of those persons;

    (b) A description of the facts and circumstances under which

 the Board exercised its discretion regarding whether to allow an

 applicant for a license to take the examination for that license or

 to issue a license to the applicant; and

    (c) The number and types of complaints, if any, the Board

 received regarding the procedure for applying for a license and

 the procedure for issuance of a license.

    Sec. 2.  NRS 625.100 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    625.100  1.  The Governor shall appoint seven persons, [six]

 four of whom must be engaged in the practice or teaching of

 professional engineering in any of its disciplines except military

 engineering, [and one] two of whom must be engaged in the

 practice or teaching of land surveying [.] and one of whom must be

 a member of the general public. The members must be citizens of

 the

United States and residents of this state, and constitute the State

Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

    2.  All appointments made for members who are engaged in

 the practice or teaching of professional engineering or land

 surveying must be made from the current roster of professional

 engineers and professional land surveyors as issued by the Board

 and on file in the office of the Secretary of State. Insofar as

 practicable, membership on the Board of those members must be

 distributed proportionately among the recognized disciplines of the

 profession. [One of the members who is a professional land

 surveyor must not be licensed as a professional engineer.] The

 members who are professional land surveyors must not be

 professional engineers.

    3.  Within 30 days after his appointment, [a] each member shall

 take and subscribe to the oath of office as prescribed by the laws of

 Nevada and shall file the oath with the Secretary of State.

    Sec. 3.  NRS 625.154 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    625.154  1.  The Board shall hold examinations of applicants

 for licenses at least once each year in localities determined by the

 number of applications received.

    2.  The examinations must be written and administered in

 English.

    3.  The Board shall not prohibit an applicant for a license

 from taking a regularly scheduled examination for that license

 solely because the Board failed to review the applicant’s

 application before the examination. If the Board prohibits an

 applicant for a license from taking the examination in violation of

 this subsection, the Board shall hold or cause to be held an

 examination for the applicant within 30 days after the violation

 occurs.

    Sec. 4.  NRS 625.383 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    625.383  1.  Each professional engineer and professional land

 surveyor shall obtain a stamp of the design authorized by the Board,

 bearing his name and the number of his license and the legend

 “Professional Engineer” followed by the discipline for which he is

 qualified or the legend “Professional Land Surveyor,” respectively.

    2.  To facilitate the obtaining of a stamp by a professional

 engineer or professional land surveyor pursuant to subsection 1,

 the Board shall, upon request, provide its authorized design to

 any retailer or manufacturer of stamps. A professional engineer

 or professional land surveyor may obtain his stamp from any

 retailer or manufacturer of stamps.

    3.  A professional land surveyor shall not use the legend

 “Professional Engineer.”

 

 

    Sec. 5.  NRS 625.500 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    625.500  1.  The licensure requirements of this chapter do not

 apply to [the] :

    (a) The employees of interstate or intrastate public utility

 companies while they are engaged in work for those companies [or

 to any] ;

    (b) Any architect registered pursuant to the provisions of chapter

 623 of NRS and who practices architecture as permitted by chapter

 623 of NRS [.] ; or

    (c) A person, while he is using a scanner for the purpose of

 construction management or monitoring, or both, if he is certified

 by the International Conference of Building Officials or a

 successor organization for the purposes for which he is using the

 scanner.

    2.  As used in this section, “scanner” means a device that uses

 laser technology to capture the digital shape of physical objects

 through laser triangulation.

    Sec. 6.  1.  The term of each member of the State Board of

 Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors expires on the effective

 date of this act.

    2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this act, the

 Governor shall appoint to the Board:

    (a) Three members who are engaged in the practice or teaching

 of professional engineering, except military engineering, to serve

 for terms of 3 years;

    (b) One member who is engaged in the practice or teaching of

 professional engineering, except military engineering, to serve for a

 term of 2 years;

    (c) One member who is engaged in the practice or teaching of

 land surveying to serve for a term of 2 years;

    (d) One member who is engaged in the practice or teaching of

 land surveying to serve for a term of 1 year; and

    (e) One member who is a member of the general public to serve

 for a term of 1 year.

    Sec. 7.  1.  This act becomes effective upon passage and

 approval.

    2.  Section 1 of this act expires by limitation on December 1,

 2014.

 

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