672.005
Additional definitions.
As used in ORS 672.002 to 672.325, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Practice of
engineering” or “practice of professional engineering” means any of the
following when done for others:
(a) Performing a
service or creating an original work requiring engineering education, training
and experience.
(b) In connection
with utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works or
projects, whether private or public, applying special knowledge of the
mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to services or original works
such as:
(A) Consultation;
(B)
Investigation;
(C) Evaluation;
(D) Planning;
(E) Design; and
(F) Services
during construction, manufacture or fabrication for the purpose of ensuring
compliance with specifications and design.
(c) Surveying to
determine area or topography.
(d) Surveying to
establish lines, grades or elevations, or to determine or estimate quantities
of materials required, removed or in place.
(e) Surveying
required for design and construction layout of engineering and architectural
infrastructure.
(f) Performing
photogrammetric mapping.
(2) “Practice of
land surveying” means doing any of the following:
(a) Providing or
offering to provide for others professional services that apply mathematics,
geodesy and other sciences and involve:
(A) The making of
geometric measurements and gathering of related information pertaining to:
(i) The physical
or legal features of the earth;
(ii) Improvements
on the earth; or
(iii) The space
above or below the earth; or
(B) The
development of measurements and information described in subparagraph (A) of
this paragraph into graphics, data, maps, plans, reports, descriptions,
projects or other survey products.
(b) Performing
geodetic surveys for others.
(c) Establishing,
reestablishing or replacing boundaries or geodetic control monuments or
reference points.
(d) Locating,
relocating, establishing, reestablishing or retracing any property lines or
boundaries for any tract of land, road right-of-way or easement.
(e) Making any
survey for the division or subdivision of a tract of land or for the
consolidation of tracts of land.
(f) Locating and
laying out for others alignments, positions or elevations for the construction
of fixed works.
(g) Performing or
offering to perform for others any investigation, interpretation or evaluation
of, or any consultation about, any of the services described in paragraphs (a)
to (f) of this subsection.
(h) Collecting,
preparing, manipulating or modifying data related to activities described in
paragraphs (a) to (f) of this subsection for others, other than acting as a
scrivener.
(i) Performing
photogrammetric mapping for others.
(j) Making
surveys that involve horizontal or vertical mapping control or geodetic
control. [1971 c.751 §2; 1973 c.531 §1; 1977 c.620 §1; 1981 c.143 §2; 1991
c.339 §5; 1997 c.210 §2; 2005 c.445 §7; 2019 c.75 §1]
Notes of Decisions
Becklin v. Bd. of Examiners for Eng'g & Land Surveying, 97 P.3d 1216 (Or. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 5× “007 provides that a person is considered to be “practicing or offering to practice engineering” if that person “[p]urports to be able to perform, or who does perform, any service or work which is defined by ORS 672.005 as the practice of engineering.”
Goodwin v. Kingsmen Plastering, Inc., 375 P.3d 463 (Or. 2016).
“310, or the practice of engineering, as defined in ORS 672.005, to recover damages for injury to a person, property or to any interest in property, including damages for delay or economic loss, regardless of legal theory, arising from the construction, alteration or repair of…”
Topaz v. Oregon Bd. of Examiners for Eng'g & Land Surveying, 297 P.3d 498 (Or. Ct. App. 2013).
· cites it 3× “007(1), which provides in part: “[A] person shall be considered practicing or offering to practice engineering who: “(a) By verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way implies that the person is or purports to be a registered professional engineer;…”
Waxman v. Waxman & Assocs., Inc., 198 P.3d 445 (Or. Ct. App. 2008).
“310, or the practice of engineering, as defined in ORS 672.005, to recover damages for injury to a person, property or to any interest in property, including damages for delay or economic loss, regardless of legal theory, arising from the construction, alteration or repair of…”
Durette v. Virgil, 356 P.3d 639 (Or. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 4× ““(a) By verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way implies that the person is or purports to be a registered professional engineer; “(b) Through the use of some other title implies that the person is an engineer or a registered professional engineer;…”
JäRLSTRöM v. Aldridge, 366 F. Supp. 3d 1205 (D. Or. 2018).
· cites it 4× “Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Or. Rev. Stat. § 672.005 (1)(a)-(b) ; Or.”
Pollack v. Mapes, 343 Or. App. 470 (Or. Ct. App. 2025).
“See ORS 672.005(2)(d) (defining the “[p]ractice of land surveying” to include “[l]ocating, relocating, establish- ing, reestablishing or retracing any property lines or bound- aries for any tract of land”).”
Goodwin v. Kingsmen Plastering, Inc. (Or. 2016).
“310, or the practice of engineering, as defined in ORS 672.005, to recover damages for injury to a per- son, property or to any interest in property, including dam- ages for delay or economic loss, regardless of legal theory, arising from the construction, alteration or repair…”
Goodwin v. Kingsmen Plastering, Inc. (Or. 2016).
“310, or the practice of engineering, as defined in ORS 672.005, to recover damages for injury to a per- son, property or to any interest in property, including dam- ages for delay or economic loss, regardless of legal theory, arising from the construction, alteration or repair…”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 672.005(1) — 1 case
Durette v. Virgil, 356 P.3d 639 (Or. Ct. App. 2015).
““(a) By verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way implies that the person is or purports to be a registered professional engineer; “(b) Through the use of some other title implies that the person is an engineer or a registered professional engineer;…”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 672.005(1)(b) — 1 case
Durette v. Virgil, 356 P.3d 639 (Or. Ct. App. 2015).
““(a) By verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way implies that the person is or purports to be a registered professional engineer; “(b) Through the use of some other title implies that the person is an engineer or a registered professional engineer;…”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 672.005(2)(d) — 1 case
Pollack v. Mapes, 343 Or. App. 470 (Or. Ct. App. 2025).
“See ORS 672.005(2)(d) (defining the “[p]ractice of land surveying” to include “[l]ocating, relocating, establish- ing, reestablishing or retracing any property lines or bound- aries for any tract of land”).”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 672.005(l)(a) — 1 case
Becklin v. Bd. of Examiners for Eng'g & Land Surveying, 97 P.3d 1216 (Or. Ct. App. 2004).
“007 provides that a person is considered to be “practicing or offering to practice engineering” if that person “[p]urports to be able to perform, or who does perform, any service or work which is defined by ORS 672.005 as the practice of engineering.”
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