Florida Statute 471.005 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 471
ENGINEERING

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F.S. 471.005

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.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 471.005

Total Results: 13

Sunset Beach Investments, LLC v. Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2017-01-04

Citation: 207 So. 3d 1012, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 41

Snippet: fundamentals of engineering examination ....”§ 471.005(6), Fla. Stat. (2013). That is contrasted with

Citizens Property Insurance Corp. v. Galeria Villas Condominium Ass'n

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2010-11-24

Citation: 48 So. 3d 188, 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 18003, 2010 WL 4740049

Snippet: last seven (7) years." [4] Romay, 744 So.2d at 471. [5] Id. at 470 (quoting 14 Couch on Insurance 2d

Trikon Sunrise Associates, LLC v. Brice Building Co.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2010-07-14

Citation: 41 So. 3d 315, 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 10342, 2010 WL 2882434

Snippet: in safeguarding life, health, and property. § 471.005(7), Fla. Stat. (2005). It would seem under the

In Re Amendments to Florida Family Law Rules

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2008-10-16

Citation: 995 So. 2d 445, 33 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 840, 2008 Fla. LEXIS 1975, 2008 WL 4587208

Snippet: (4) starting and ending compensation. *471 (5) name of all persons involved in the business

Gaudet v. Board

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2004-10-13

Citation: 900 So. 2d 574, 2004 WL 2290393

Snippet: requirements for engineering as defined in s. 471.005. The board may adopt rules providing for the acceptance

Crepage v. City of Lauderhill

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2000-11-08

Citation: 774 So. 2d 61, 2000 WL 1671577

Snippet: revealed a plastic bag containing approximately 471.5 grams of marijuana located on the rear floor board

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1994-07-13

Snippet: (Federal Water Pollution Control Act). 3 Section 471.005(7), Fla. Stat. (1993), states that the term "License"

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1991-04-16

Snippet: City of Cape Canaveral v. Mosher, 467 So.2d 468, 471 (5 D.C.A. Fla., 1985), stating further that the use

Department of Professional Regulation, Board of Professional Engineers v. Florida Society of Professional Land Surveyors

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1985-09-04

Citation: 475 So. 2d 939, 10 Fla. L. Weekly 2081, 1985 Fla. App. LEXIS 15739

Snippet: the term “engineering survey” as used in section 471.005(4)(a), Florida Statutes (1983). Although chapter

Dept. of Prof. Reg. v. SOC. PROF. LAND SUR.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1985-09-04

Citation: 475 So. 2d 939

Snippet: the term "engineering survey" as used in section 471.005(4)(a), Florida Statutes (1983). Although chapter

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1983-07-12

Snippet: THE DEFINITION OF "ENGINEERING" CONTAINED IN s 471.005, F.S., REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED PURSUANT TO s 471

Moon v. Wilson

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1930-09-11

Citation: 130 So. 25, 100 Fla. 791

Snippet: v. Steiner, Mantel Co., 103 Md. 235, 63 Atl. R. 471, 5 L.R.A. (N.S.) 1105. It has been held that even

State v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1908-06-15

Citation: 56 Fla. 617

Snippet: Commissioners v. Pensacola & A. R. Co., 24 Fla. 417, text 471, 5 South. Rep. 129, 12 Am. St. Rep. 220, 2 L. R. A