0001|                            HOUSE BILL 251
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          LARRY A. LARRANAGA
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     AMENDING SECTION 61-23-22 NMSA 1978 (BEING LAWS 1993, CHAPTER
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0012|     218, SECTION 17) TO CHANGE ENGINEERING EXEMPTIONS FROM
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0013|     REQUIREMENTS OF THE ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING PRACTICE ACT.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 61-23-22 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1993,
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0017|     Chapter 218, Section 17) is amended to read:
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0018|          "61-23-22.  ENGINEERING--EXEMPTIONS.--
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0019|               A.  A New Mexico licensed architect who has
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0020|     complied with all of the laws of New Mexico relating to the
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0021|     practice of architecture has the right to engage in the
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0022|     incidental practice, as defined by regulation, of activities
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0023|     properly classified as engineering; provided that the
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0024|     architect shall not hold himself out to be an engineer or as
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0025|     performing engineering services; and further provided that the
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0001|     architect shall perform only that part of the work for which
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0002|     he is professionally qualified and shall utilize qualified
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0003|     professional engineers or others for those portions of the
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0004|     work in which the contracting architect is not qualified. 
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0005|     Furthermore, the architect shall assume all responsibility for
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0006|     compliance with all laws, codes, regulations and ordinances of
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0007|     the state or its political subdivisions pertaining to all
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0008|     documents bearing his professional seal.
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0009|               <s>[B.  Officers and employees of the government of
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<s></s>0010| <s>    the United States engaged in the practice of engineering
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<s></s>0011| <s>    insofar that the work involved in said practice is limited and
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<s></s>0012| <s>    restricted to within federal government property shall be
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<s></s>0013| <s>    exempt from the provisions of the Engineering and Surveying
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<s></s>0014| <s>    Practice Act.  Any connection or joining of work to other work
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<s></s>0015| <s>    outside of the federal property shall require that the
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<s></s>0016| <s>    connection or joining be specified by engineers registered
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<s></s>0017| <s>    under the provisions of that act.
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<s></s>0018| <s>              C.]</s> <u>B.</u>  An engineer employed by a firm,
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0019|     association or corporation who performs only the engineering
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0020|     services involved in the operation of the employer's business
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0021|     shall be exempt from the provisions of the Engineering and
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0022|     Surveying Practice Act, provided that neither the employee nor
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0023|     the employer offers engineering services to the public."
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