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Fla. Stat. § 471.005 (2025)
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471.005 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) “Board” means the Board of Professional Engineers.
(2) “Board of directors” means the board of directors of the Florida Engineers Management Corporation.
(3) “Defense company” means any business entity that holds a valid Department of Defense contract or any business entity that is a subcontractor under a valid Department of Defense contract. The term includes any business entity that holds valid contracts or subcontracts for products or services for military use under prime contracts with the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of State, or the United States Coast Guard.
(4) “Department” means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
(5) “Engineer” includes the terms “professional engineer” and “licensed engineer” and means a person who is licensed to engage in the practice of engineering under this chapter.
(6) “Engineer intern” means a person who has graduated from an engineering curriculum approved by the board and has passed the fundamentals of engineering examination as provided by rules adopted by the board.
(7) “Engineering” includes the term “professional engineering” and means any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to such services or creative work as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, and design of engineering works and systems, planning the use of land and water, teaching of the principles and methods of engineering design, engineering surveys, and the inspection of construction for the purpose of determining in general if the work is proceeding in compliance with drawings and specifications, any of which embraces such services or work, either public or private, in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, projects, and industrial or consumer products or equipment of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or thermal nature, insofar as they involve safeguarding life, health, or property; and includes such other professional services as may be necessary to the planning, progress, and completion of any engineering services. A person who practices any branch of engineering; who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, or card, or in any other way, represents himself or herself to be an engineer or, through the use of some other title, implies that he or she is an engineer or that he or she is licensed under this chapter; or who holds himself or herself out as able to perform, or does perform, any engineering service or work or any other service designated by the practitioner which is recognized as engineering shall be construed to practice or offer to practice engineering within the meaning and intent of this chapter.
(8) “License” means the licensing of engineers to practice engineering in this state.
(9) “Management corporation” means the Florida Engineers Management Corporation.
(10) “Retired professional engineer” or “professional engineer, retired” means a person who has been duly licensed as a professional engineer by the board and who chooses to relinquish or not to renew his or her license and applies to and is approved by the board to be granted the title “Professional Engineer, Retired.”
(11) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation.
(12) “Space or aerospace company” means any business entity concerned with the design, manufacture, or support of aircraft, rockets, missiles, spacecraft, satellites, space vehicles, space stations, space facilities, or components thereof, and equipment, systems, facilities, simulators, programs, products, services, and activities related thereto.
History.—ss. 2, 42, ch. 79-243; ss. 4, 10, ch. 81-302; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 4, ch. 83-160; s. 4, ch. 84-365; ss. 2, 14, 15, ch. 89-30; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 151, ch. 94-218; s. 331, ch. 97-103; s. 33, ch. 2000-356; s. 3, ch. 2000-372; s. 18, ch. 2002-299; s. 2, ch. 2003-425; s. 3, ch. 2019-86; s. 120, ch. 2020-2.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1984–2017 · leading case: Dep't of Prof'l Reg., Bd. of Prof'l Engineers v. Florida Soc'y of Prof'l Land Surveyors, 475 So. 2d 939 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).
Dep't of Prof'l Reg., Bd. of Prof'l Engineers v. Florida Soc'y of Prof'l Land Surveyors, 475 So. 2d 939 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). “005, Florida Statutes (1983), contains no specific legislative grant of rulemaking authority; nor does chapter 471 contain any general provision granting the Board broad rulemaking authority similar to that found in many other statutes. 1 In holding that the proposed rule…”
Sunset Beach Investments, LLC v. Kimley-Horn & Assocs., Inc., 207 So. 3d 1012 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). “” § 471.005(5), Fla. Stat. (2013). These statutory definitions clearly indicate that being an “engineer intern” does not make a person an engineer.”
Trikon Sunrise Assocs., LLC v. Brice Bldg. Co., 41 So. 3d 315 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010). “§ 471.005(7), Fla. Stat. (2005). It would seem under the statutes that the two disciplines (engineering and architecture) are clearly distinct as are their duties and responsibilities.”
Dept. of Prof. Reg. v. Soc. Prof. Land Sur., 475 So. 2d 939 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). “005, Florida Statutes (1983), contains no specific legislative grant of rulemaking authority; nor does chapter 471 contain any general provision granting the Board broad rulemaking authority similar to that found in many other statutes.”
Gaudet v. Bd., 900 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004). “, (ABET), and (b) An evaluation of such programs and schools, following the definition of the practice of engineering set forth in Section 471.005(6), F.S. (2) This rule shall not apply to Board approved engineering programs or where ABET accreditation is available to a school…”
Florida Soc'y of Prof'l Land Surveyors v. Dep't of Prof'l Reg., 10 Fla. Supp. 2d 154 (Fla. Div. Admin. Hr'g 1984). “Section 471.005(4)(a), Florida Statutes, states: “Engineering” includes the term “professional engineering” and means any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience, in the application of special knowledge…”
— 471.005(4)(a) — 3 cases
Dep't of Prof'l Reg., Bd. of Prof'l Engineers v. Florida Soc'y of Prof'l Land Surveyors, 475 So. 2d 939 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). “005, Florida Statutes (1983), contains no specific legislative grant of rulemaking authority; nor does chapter 471 contain any general provision granting the Board broad rulemaking authority similar to that found in many other statutes. 1 In holding that the proposed rule…”
Dept. of Prof. Reg. v. Soc. Prof. Land Sur., 475 So. 2d 939 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). “005, Florida Statutes (1983), contains no specific legislative grant of rulemaking authority; nor does chapter 471 contain any general provision granting the Board broad rulemaking authority similar to that found in many other statutes.”
Florida Soc'y of Prof'l Land Surveyors v. Dep't of Prof'l Reg., 10 Fla. Supp. 2d 154 (Fla. Div. Admin. Hr'g 1984). “Section 471.005(4)(a), Florida Statutes, states: “Engineering” includes the term “professional engineering” and means any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience, in the application of special knowledge…”
— 471.005(5) — 1 case
Sunset Beach Investments, LLC v. Kimley-Horn & Assocs., Inc., 207 So. 3d 1012 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). “” § 471.005(5), Fla. Stat. (2013). These statutory definitions clearly indicate that being an “engineer intern” does not make a person an engineer.”
— 471.005(6) — 2 cases
Sunset Beach Investments, LLC v. Kimley-Horn & Assocs., Inc., 207 So. 3d 1012 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). “” § 471.005(5), Fla. Stat. (2013). These statutory definitions clearly indicate that being an “engineer intern” does not make a person an engineer.”
Gaudet v. Bd., 900 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004). “, (ABET), and (b) An evaluation of such programs and schools, following the definition of the practice of engineering set forth in Section 471.005(6), F.S. (2) This rule shall not apply to Board approved engineering programs or where ABET accreditation is available to a school…”
— 471.005(7) — 1 case
Trikon Sunrise Assocs., LLC v. Brice Bldg. Co., 41 So. 3d 315 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010). “§ 471.005(7), Fla. Stat. (2005). It would seem under the statutes that the two disciplines (engineering and architecture) are clearly distinct as are their duties and responsibilities.”
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