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Section 1. NRS 625.170 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.170 1. The executive director of the board shall, once each year

1. (c) Distributed or sold to the public.

Sec. 2. NRS 625.177 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.177 1. The board may require a firm, partnership, corporation or

1. section.

Sec. 3. NRS 625.179 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.179 1. The board may require a firm, partnership, corporation or

1. this section.

1. 2. The board may adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this

1. section.

Sec. 4. NRS 625.183 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.183 1. A person who:

1. approved by the board, by a person who has not graduated from an
2. engineering curriculum, is equivalent to 1 year of active experience in

1. engineering.

1. (b) Graduation from a college or university in a field other than

1. engineering is equivalent to 2 years of active experience.

1. (c) Two of the 10 years of active experience must have been completed

1. (d) The execution, as a contractor, of work designed by a professional

1. engineer or the supervision of the construction of that work as a foreman or

1. superintendent, is not equivalent to active experience in engineering.

1. (e) Not more than 4 years of active experience may be satisfied by the

1. completion of educational course work.

1. 6. A person who is not working in the field of engineering when he

1. applies for licensure is eligible for licensure as a professional engineer if he

1. complies with the requirements for licensure prescribed in this chapter.

Sec. 5. NRS 625.183 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.183 1. A person who:

1. (a) Is 21 years of age or older; and

1. (b) Is a citizen of the United States or is lawfully entitled to remain and

1. work in the United States,

1. may apply to the board, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter

1. and any regulations adopted by the board, for licensure as a professional

1. engineer.

1. 2. An applicant for licensure as a professional engineer must:

1. (a) Be of good character and reputation; and

1. (b) Pass the examination on the:

1. (1) Fundamentals of engineering or receive a waiver of that

1. requirement; and

1. (2) Principles and practices of engineering,

1. pursuant to NRS 625.193.

1. 3. An applicant for licensure as a professional engineer may not take

1. is approved by the board and has a record of 4 years or more of active

1. experience in engineering that is satisfactory to the board and indicates that

1. engineer has an adequate record of active experience pursuant to

1. by working under the direct supervision of a professional engineer who is

1. licensed in the discipline in which the applicant is applying for licensure,

1. unless that requirement is waived by the board.

1. professional engineer or the supervision of the construction of that work as

1. a foreman or superintendent, is not equivalent to active experience in

1. engineering.

1. applies for licensure is eligible for licensure as a professional engineer if he

1. complies with the requirements for licensure prescribed in this chapter.

Sec. 6. NRS 625.193 is hereby amended to read as follows:

625.193 1. The examination for licensure as a professional engineer

1. applicant is applying for licensure.
2. 2. An applicant for licensure as a professional engineer must pass the

1. examination on the fundamentals of engineering or receive a waiver of that

1. requirement before he may take the examination on the principles and

1. practices of engineering.

1. 3. When determining the content of the examinations on the

1. fundamentals of engineering and the principles and practices of

1. engineering, the board shall consider the recognized disciplines of

1. engineering and may conform the examination to the particular

1. qualifications of the applicant.

1. 4. The board may require additional examinations for licensure in

1. specialized areas of practice within one or more recognized disciplines of

1. engineering.

1. 5. The board may administer or authorize an accredited college or

1. university that offers a program in engineering approved by the board to

1. administer the examination on the fundamentals of engineering to persons

1. who are not applicants for licensure as professional engineers in this state.

1. 6. The board may prescribe or limit the use of notes, texts and

1. reference materials by applicants who are taking the examinations.

1. 7. The board may require the examinations or any portion of the

1. examinations set forth in this section to be completed:

1. (a) In writing, with a pen or pencil of a type that has been approved by

1. the board;

1. (b) With a computer that has been provided or approved by the board;

1. or

1. (c) Orally, in the manner prescribed by the board.

Sec. 7. NRS 625.270 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.270 1. A person who:

1. experience in land surveying that is satisfactory to the board and indicates
2. that he is competent to be placed in responsible charge of land-surveying

1. land surveyor has an adequate record of active experience pursuant to

1. land surveyor, unless that requirement is waived by the board.

1. experience in land surveying.

1. applies for licensure is eligible for licensure as a professional land surveyor

1. if he complies with the requirements for licensure prescribed in this

1. chapter.

Sec. 8. NRS 625.381 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.381 1. The board shall issue a license to practice professional

1. respectively.
2. 2. A license to practice professional engineering or land surveying

1. must:

1. (b) Include the number of the license.

1. (c) Be signed by the chairman and executive director under the seal of

1. the board.

1. (d) Authorize the practice of professional engineering in the discipline

1. for which the applicant has qualified or the practice of land surveying,

1. respectively.

3. The issuance of a license to practice professional engineering or

or professional land surveyor, respectively, while the license remains

Sec. 9. NRS 625.382 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.382 1. The board may issue a license to practice professional

Sec. 10. NRS 625.385 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.385 1. The board shall certify as an engineer intern or land

Sec. 11. NRS 625.407 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.407 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section:

1. must be performed under a professional engineer or professional land

1. surveyor, respectively, who has been placed in responsible charge of the

1. work and who is employed full time at that particular place of business.

1. 2. If the only professional engineer or professional land surveyor

1. employed full time at a place of business where engineering or land-

1. surveying work is performed ceases to be employed at that place of

1. business, during the 30 days next following his departure:

1. (a) The place of business is not required to employ full time a

1. professional engineer or professional land surveyor; and

1. (b) The professional engineer or professional land surveyor placed in

1. responsible charge of engineering or land-surveying work performed at the

1. place of business is not required to be employed full time at that place of

1. business.

1. 3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5:

1. (a) A firm, partnership, corporation or other person who performs or

1. offers to perform engineering services in a certain discipline at a particular

1. business a professional engineer licensed in that discipline.

1. (b) Each person who holds himself out as practicing a certain discipline

1. of engineering must be licensed in that discipline or employ full time a

1. professional engineer licensed in that discipline.

1. 4. Architects, registered interior designers, residential designers,

1. limited-liability company or other business organization or association with

1. registrants and licensees outside of their field of practice, or with persons

1. who are not registered or licensed.

1. 5. The provisions of this section do not apply to a firm, partnership,

1. corporation or other person who:

1. (a) Practices professional engineering for his benefit and does not

1. engage in the practice of professional engineering or offer professional

1. engineering services to other persons; or

1. (b) Is engaged in the practice of professional engineering or land

1. surveying in offices established for limited or temporary purposes,

1. including offices established for the convenience of field survey crews or

1. offices established for inspecting construction.

Sec. 12. NRS 625.520 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 625.520 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, it is

1. professional or commercial identification, representation, claim, asset or

1. member thereof that any person is qualified or authorized to practice

1. engineering.

1. (b) Any professional engineer to practice or offer to practice a discipline

1. of professional engineering in which the board has not qualified him.

1. (c) Any person to present or attempt to use, as his own, the license or

1. (d) Any person to give any false or forged evidence of any kind to the

1. board or any member thereof in obtaining a license.

1. different name.

1. (f) Any person to attempt to use an expired, suspended or revoked

1. license.

1. (g) Any person to violate any of the provisions of this chapter.

1. act or practice that constitutes a violation of this chapter, the district court

1. violation, may, upon application of the board, issue an injunction or

1. restraining order against the act or practice pursuant to Rule 65 of the

1. Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure.

1. 3. This section does not prevent a contractor licensed in accordance

1. with the provisions of chapter 624 of NRS from using the term "engineer"

1. or "engineering" if the term is used by the state contractors’ board in

1. describing a specific classification.

1. such a term in its corporate name, if the corporation:

1. (b) Files with the board a written statement signed by a corporate officer

1. under penalty of perjury in which he states that the corporation:

1. (1) Is not practicing or offering to practice engineering in this state;

1. and

1. exempted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
2. 5. Any person who violates any of the provisions of subsection 1 is

1. guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

Sec. 13. NRS 78.045 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. 78.045 1. The secretary of state shall not accept for filing any articles

1. to them pursuant to the provisions of this section.

Sec. 14. NRS 80.010 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. every corporation organized pursuant to the laws of another state, territory,
2. the District of Columbia, a dependency of the United States or a foreign

1. country, that enters this state to do business must:

1. (a) File in the office of the secretary of state of this state:

1. (1) A certificate of corporate existence issued not more than 90 days

1. before the date of filing by an authorized officer of the jurisdiction of its

1. incorporation setting forth the filing of documents and instruments related

1. to the articles of incorporation, or the governmental acts or other instrument

1. or authority by which the corporation was created. If the certificate is in a

1. language other than English, a translation, together with the oath of the

1. translator and his attestation of its accuracy, must be attached to the

1. certificate.

1. (2) A certificate of acceptance of appointment executed by its resident

1. agent, who must be a resident or located in this state. The certificate must

1. set forth the name of the resident agent, his street address for the service of

1. process, and his mailing address if different from his street address. The

1. street address of the resident agent is the registered office of the

1. corporation in this state.

1. (3) A statement executed by an officer of the corporation,

1. acknowledged before a person authorized by the laws of the place where

1. the acknowledgment is taken to take acknowledgments of deeds, setting

1. forth:

1. (I) A general description of the purposes of the corporation; and

1. (II) The authorized stock of the corporation and the number and

1. par value of shares having par value and the number of shares having no

1. par value.

1. (b) Lodge in the office of the secretary of state a copy of the document

1. most recently filed by the corporation in the jurisdiction of its incorporation

1. setting forth the authorized stock of the corporation, the number of par-

1. value shares and their par value, and the number of no-par-value shares.

1. 2. The secretary of state shall not file the documents required by

1. subsection 1 for any foreign corporation whose name is the same as, or

1. deceptively similar to the name of a corporation, limited partnership or

1. limited-liability company existing pursuant to the laws of this state or a

1. foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership or foreign limited-liability

1. company authorized to transact business in this state or a name to which the

1. exclusive right is at the time reserved in the manner provided in the laws of

1. this state, unless the written acknowledged consent of the holder of the

1. registered or reserved name to use the same name or the requested similar

1. name accompanies the articles of incorporation.

1. 3. The secretary of state shall not accept for filing the documents

1. required by subsection 1 or NRS 80.110 for any foreign corporation if the

1. name of the corporation contains the words "engineer," "engineered,"

1. engineer" unless the state board of professional engineers and land

1. surveyors certifies that:
2. (a) The principals of the corporation are licensed to practice engineering

1. pursuant to the laws of this state; or

1. (b) The corporation is exempt from the prohibitions of NRS 625.520.

1. 4. The secretary of state shall not accept for filing the documents

1. required by subsection 1 or NRS 80.110 for any foreign corporation if it

1. appears from the documents that the business to be carried on by the

1. corporation is subject to supervision by the commissioner of financial

1. institutions, unless the commissioner certifies that:

1. (a) The corporation has obtained the authority required to do business in

1. this state; or

(b) The corporation is not subject to or is exempt from the requirements

for obtaining such authority.

Sec. 15. Section 2 of Senate Bill No. 19 of this session is hereby

amended to read as follows:

1. document most recently filed by the corporation in the jurisdiction
2. of its incorporation setting forth the authorized stock of the

1. corporation, the number of par-value shares and their par value, and

1. the number of no-par-value shares.

1. 2. The secretary of state shall not file the documents required

1. by subsection 1 for any foreign corporation whose name is the same

1. as, or deceptively similar to the name of a corporation, limited

1. partnership or limited-liability company existing pursuant to the

1. laws of this state or a foreign corporation, foreign limited

1. partnership or foreign limited-liability company authorized to

1. transact business in this state or a name to which the exclusive right

1. is at the time reserved in the manner provided in the laws of this

1. state, unless the written acknowledged consent of the holder of the

1. registered or reserved name to use the same name or the requested

1. similar name accompanies the articles of incorporation.

1. 3. The secretary of state shall not accept for filing the

1. documents required by subsection 1 or NRS 80.110 for any foreign

1. corporation if the name of the corporation contains the words

1. "engineer," "engineered," "engineering," "professional engineer,"

1. "registered engineer" or "licensed engineer" unless the state board

1. of professional engineers and land surveyors certifies that:

1. (a) The principals of the corporation are licensed to practice

1. engineering pursuant to the laws of this state; or

1. (b) The corporation is exempt from the prohibitions of NRS

1. 625.520.

1. 4. The secretary of state shall not accept for filing the

1. documents required by subsection 1 or NRS 80.110 for any foreign

1. corporation if it appears from the documents that the business to be

1. carried on by the corporation is subject to supervision by the

1. commissioner of financial institutions, unless the commissioner

1. certifies that:

1. (a) The corporation has obtained the authority required to do

1. business in this state; or

1. (b) The corporation is not subject to or is exempt from the

1. requirements for obtaining such authority.

Sec. 16. The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to

offenses committed before the effective date of section 12 of this act.

Sec. 17. If a land-surveying curriculum of 4 years or more is

established at a university within the University and Community College

System of Nevada, the board of regents of the University of Nevada shall,

not later than 30 days after the curriculum is established:

1. Publicly declare that the curriculum has been established at the

university; and

2. Provide written notification of the declaration to

:

(a) The director of the legislative counsel bureau; and

(b) The executive director of the state board of professional engineers

and land surveyors.

Sec. 18. 1. This section and sections 1 to 4, inclusive, 6 and 8 to 17,

inclusive, of this act become effective upon passage and approval.

2. Section 5 of this act becomes effective on July 1, 2010.

3. Section 7 of this act becomes effective on July 1, 2010, if the board

of regents of the University of Nevada publicly declares the establishment

of the curriculum specified in section 17 of this act on or before July 1,

2006.

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