By Nixon H.B. No. 3372
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the registration of sole proprietorships and certain
1-3 firms that practice engineering.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 13, The Texas Engineering Practice Act
1-6 (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-7 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-8 (f) A sole proprietorship or firm that employs fewer than
1-9 six engineers may not be required to pay a registration fee.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 17, The Texas Engineering Practice Act
1-11 (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-12 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-13 (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(1) of this section, a
1-14 sole proprietorship or firm that employs fewer than six engineers
1-15 is not required to register with the Board.
1-16 SECTION 3. Section 18, The Texas Engineering Practice Act
1-17 (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-18 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-19 follows:
1-20 (a) No sole proprietorship, firm, partnership, association,
1-21 corporation or other business entity shall hold itself out to the
1-22 public or any member thereof as being engaged in the practice of
1-23 engineering under any assumed, trade, business, partnership or
2-1 corporate name or employ, use, cause to be used or make use of in
2-2 any manner whatsoever any such words or terms as "engineer,"
2-3 "engineering," "engineering services," "engineering company,"
2-4 "engineering, inc.," "professional engineers," "licensed engineer,"
2-5 "registered engineer," "licensed professional engineer,"
2-6 "registered professional engineer," "engineered," or any
2-7 combinations, abbreviations or variations thereof, or in
2-8 combination with any other words, letters, initials, signs or
2-9 symbols on, in or as a part of, directly or indirectly, any sign,
2-10 directory, listing, contract, document, pamphlet, stationery,
2-11 letterhead, advertisement, signature, trade name, assumed name,
2-12 corporate or other business name unless such sole proprietorship,
2-13 firm, partnership, association, corporation or other business
2-14 entity is:
2-15 (1) registered under Section 17 of this Act; and
2-16 (2) [is] actually and actively engaged in the practice
2-17 of engineering or offering engineering services to the public, and
2-18 any and all services, work, acts or things performed or done by it
2-19 which constitute any part of the practice of engineering are either
2-20 personally performed or done by a licensed engineer or under the
2-21 direct supervision of a licensed engineer who is a regular
2-22 full-time employee of the sole proprietorship, firm, partnership,
2-23 association, corporation, or other business entity.
2-24 (c) Subsection (a)(1) of this section does not apply to a
2-25 sole proprietorship or firm that employs fewer than six engineers.
2-26 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.