Your name appears as a reference that can attest to the applicant’s ability and professional experience as a professional engineer/land surveyor or an engineering intern/land surveying intern (as indicated in applicant section). In addition to the written record submitted by the applicant, the Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying needs the testimony of those who can, from personal knowledge, attest to the competency of the applicant in the discipline for which he/she has applied. Thus, the Board respectfully requests your assistance in fulfilling its responsibility to the extent of asking you to answer all the questions on this form.
Please complete the following items and return this form to the applicant in a sealed envelope.If you have a professional seal (stamp), please place your stamp on the return envelope along the sealed edge. If you do not have a professional stamp, sign your name across the sealed edge. This will ensure the information contained is kept confidential until received by the Board. The applicant will return the reference form, unopened to the Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying in one compiled application packet.
ORS 672.005 Additional definitions. As
used in ORS 672.002 to 672.325, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1)(a) "Practice of engineering" or "practice of professional
engineering" means:
(A) Any professional service or creative work requiring engineering
education, training and experience; and
(B) The application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical and
engineering sciences to such professional services or creative work as
consultation, investigation, testimony, evaluation, planning, design and
services during construction, manufacture or fabrication for the purpose of
ensuring compliance with specifications and design, in connection with any
public or private utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment,
processes, works or projects.
(b)"Practice of engineering" or "practice of professional
engineering" may include:
(A) Surveying to determine area or topography;
(B) Surveying to establish lines, grades or elevations, or to determine or
estimate quantities of materials required, removed or in place; or
(C) Surveying required for design and construction layout of engineering and
architectural infrastructure.
(2) "Practice of land surveying" means that branch of the practice
of engineering in which:
(a) Surveys are made to determine area or topography, to establish or
reestablish land boundaries, corners or monuments or to subdivide or plat land;
(b) Surveys are made to establish lines, grades or elevations, or to
determine or estimate quantities of materials required, removed or in place;
(c) Surveys are made for horizontal or vertical mapping control or geodetic
control; or
(d) Consultation, investigation, evaluation or planning relating to land
surveying matters is required.
ORS 672.025 Practice of engineering without registration prohibited; seal
requirement.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 672.005 (1), a registered
professional engineer not also registered as a professional land surveyor shall
not establish, reestablish or restore land boundaries, corners or monuments
between lands not held in common ownership or intended for conveyance.