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(3) use any means or in any other way make a representation that would lead the public to believe that
<br />the person was a professional engineer.
<br />(c) A professional engineering license satisfies any requirements by the state or its political subdivisions
<br />to perform any actions authorized under the professional engineering license. A person licensed as a
<br />professional engineer under sections 326.02 to 326.15 shall only be required to obtain a license, certification,
<br />or other form of approval for a skill or service in addition to a professional engineering license if the state
<br />or political subdivision has made an affirmative written determination in statute, rule, or ordinance that such
<br />additional license or certification is necessary to safeguard life, health, or property, or promote the public
<br />welfare. This section does not preclude the state or a political subdivision from including additional
<br />requirements when soliciting public contracts for engineering services. This paragraph does not apply to
<br />practice areas where licenses or certifications are required prior to August 1, 2015.
<br />Subd. 3a.Practice of professional geoscience.A person is considered to be practicing professional
<br />geoscience within the meaning of sections 326.02 to 326.15 who holds out as being able to perform or who
<br />does perform any technical professional services, the adequate performance of which requires professional
<br />geoscience education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical,
<br />physical, chemical, biological, and earth sciences to such services or creative work as consultation,
<br />investigation, evaluation, planning, mapping, and inspection of geoscientific work and its responsible
<br />supervision.
<br />A person is considered to practice or offer to practice professional geoscience, within the meaning and
<br />intent of sections 326.02 to 326.15 who practices any of the geoscience disciplines defined by the board;
<br />who by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, or in any other way represents oneself to be a
<br />professional geoscientist; through the use of some other title implies that the person is a professional
<br />geoscientist; or who presents oneself as able to perform or who does perform any geoscience services or
<br />that constitutes the practice of a professional geoscience discipline as defined by the board.
<br />"Geoscience" means the science which includes treatment of the earth and its origin and history; the
<br />investigation, measurement or sampling, of the earth's constituent rocks, natural and induced fields of force,
<br />minerals, fossils, solids, soils, fluids including surface and underground waters, gases, and other materials;
<br />and the study, interpretation, and analysis of the natural agents, forces, and processes which cause changes
<br />in the earth.
<br />Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to prevent a professional engineer, as defined in sections
<br />326.02 to 326.15, from acquiring engineering data involving soil, rock, groundwater, and other earth materials;
<br />evaluating physical and chemical properties of soil, rock, groundwater, and other earth materials for
<br />engineering; and from utilizing these data for analysis, design, and construction. Nothing in this subdivision
<br />shall be construed to permit a professional geoscientist to engage in the practice of professional engineering,
<br />architecture, landscape architecture, or land surveying or to use the title "certified interior design" as those
<br />terms are defined in this section. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to regulate persons who take
<br />soil samples for the purpose of providing recommendations on crop production.
<br />Subd. 4.Practice of land surveying.Land surveying means the application of the principles of
<br />mathematics, physical and applied sciences and law to measuring and locating lines, angles, elevations and
<br />natural or artificial features in the air, on the surface of the earth, underground and on the beds of bodies of
<br />water for the purpose of:
<br />(1) determining, monumenting, establishing, or reestablishing property boundaries;
<br />Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
<br />Revisor of Statutes
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