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Approved Regulation R085-18
APPROVED REGULATION OF THE
STATE BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL
ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS
LCB File No. R085-18
Effective January 30, 2019
EXPLANATION – Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
AUTHORITY: §1, NRS 625.140 and 625.175; §§2 and 4, NRS 625.140; §3, NRS 625.140 and
625.565.
A REGULATION relating to professions; revising provisions concerning structures and
buildings that are required to be structurally designed by professional engineers
licensed as structural engineers; revising provisions relating to written contracts entered
into between licensed professional engineers or professional land surveyors and clients;
revising provisions relating to stamps, seals and signatures of professional engineers or
professional land surveyors; revising provisions relating to advertising for or offering to
perform land surveying or engineering in a discipline of professional engineering; and
providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law authorizes the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors to
adopt regulations necessary for the proper performance of the duties of the Board, the regulation
of the proceedings before the Board and the maintenance of a high standard of integrity and
dignity in professional engineering and land surveying. (NRS 625.140)
Existing law authorizes the Board to define by regulation the scope of each discipline of
professional engineering for which licensure is required. (NRS 625.175) Existing regulations
provide that only professional engineers licensed as structural engineers are authorized to
structurally design certain structures and buildings, including a building more than 45 feet in
height. (NAC 625.260) Section 1 of this regulation specifies the lowest point of reference and
the highest point of reference for the purposes of determining the height of a building. Section 1
also authorizes only professional engineers licensed as structural engineers to structurally design
a building or other structure designated as an essential facility and assigned the classification of
Risk Category IV in accordance with the International Building Code.
Existing regulations require: (1) a licensed professional engineer or professional land
surveyor to enter into a written contract with each client for whom the professional engineer or
professional land surveyor will perform work before performing any work; and (2) that the
contract include certain provisions. (NAC 625.545) Section 2 of this regulation provides that