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(j) Executing and issuing certificates, endorsements, reports, or plats that portray
the horizontal or vertical relationship between existing physical objects or
structures and one or more corners, datums, or boundaries of any portion of the
earth's surface, subsurface, or airspace;
(k) Acting in direct supervision and control of land surveying activities or acting as
a manager in any place of business that solicits, performs, or practices land
surveying;
(l) Boundary analysis and determination of property, easement, or right-of-way
lines on any plat submitted for regulatory review by governmental or municipal
agencies;
(m) Offering or soliciting to perform any of the services set forth in this Section.
In the performance of any of the foregoing functions, a licensee shall adhere to the
standards of professional conduct enumerated in 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1270.57. Nothing
contained in this Section imposes upon a person licensed under this Act the
responsibility for the performance of any of the foregoing functions unless such person
specifically contracts to perform such functions.
Practice of Professional Engineering
"Professional engineering practice" means the consultation on, conception,
investigation, evaluation, planning, and design of, and selection of materials to be used
in, administration of construction contracts for, or site observation of, an engineering
system or facility, where such consultation, conception, investigation, evaluation,
planning, design, selection, administration, or observation requires extensive knowledge
of engineering laws, formulae, materials, practice, and construction methods. A person
shall be construed to practice or offer to practice professional engineering, within the
meaning and intent of this Act, who practices, or who, by verbal claim, sign,
advertisement, letterhead, card, or any other way, is represented to be a professional
engineer, or through the use of the initials "P.E." or the title "engineer" or any of its
derivations or some other title implies licensure as a professional engineer, or holds
himself or herself out as able to perform any service which is recognized as professional
engineering practice.
Examples of the practice of professional engineering include, but are not limited to,
transportation facilities and publicly owned utilities for a region or community, railroads,
railways, highways, subways, canals, harbors, river improvements; land development;
stormwater detention, retention, and conveyance, excluding structures defined under
Section 5 of the Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989; irrigation works; aircraft
and airports; traffic engineering; waterworks, piping systems, sewers, sewage disposal
works, storm sewer, sanitary sewer and water system modeling; plants for the
generation of power; devices for the utilization of power; boilers; refrigeration plants, air
conditioning systems and plants; heating systems and plants; plants for the
transmission or distribution of power; electrical plants which produce, transmit,
distribute, or utilize electrical energy; works for the extraction of minerals from the earth;
plants for the refining, alloying or treating of metals; chemical works and industrial plants
involving the use of chemicals and chemical processes; plants for the production,
conversion, or utilization of nuclear, chemical, or radiant energy; forensic engineering,