Effective - 28 Aug 2021, 2 histories
327.191. Unauthorized practice prohibited — licensure required — exceptions, when. — 1. No person shall practice as a professional engineer in Missouri, as defined in section 327.181 unless and until there is issued to such person a professional license or a certificate of authority certifying that such person has been duly licensed as a professional engineer or authorized to practice engineering in Missouri, and unless such license or certificate has been renewed as provided in section 327.261.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, the following persons may engage in actions defined as the practice of professional engineering in section 327.181, provided that such persons shall not use the title "professional engineer" or "consulting engineer" or the word "engineer" alone or preceded by any word indicating or implying that such person is or holds himself or herself out to be a professional engineer, or use any word or words, letters, figures, degrees, titles, or other description indicating or implying that such person is a professional engineer or is willing or able to practice engineering:
(1) Any person who is an employee of a person holding a currently valid license as a professional engineer or who is an employee of a person holding a currently valid certificate of authority pursuant to this chapter, and who performs professional engineering work under the direction and continuing supervision of and is checked by one holding a currently valid license as a professional engineer pursuant to this chapter;
(2) Any person who is a regular full-time employee of a person or any former employee under contract to a person, who performs professional engineering work for such employer if and only if all such work and service so performed is done solely in connection with a facility owned or wholly operated by the employer and occupied or maintained by the employer of the employee performing such work or service, and does not affect the health, safety, and welfare of the public;
(3) Any person engaged in engineering who is a full-time, regular employee of a person engaged in manufacturing operations and which engineering so performed by such person relates to the manufacture, sale or installation of the products of such person, and does not affect the health, safety, and welfare of the public;
(4) Any holder of a currently valid license or certificate of authority as an architect, professional land surveyor, or professional landscape architect who performs only such engineering as incidental practice and necessary to the completion of professional services lawfully being performed by such architect, professional land surveyor, or professional landscape architect;
(5) Any person who renders engineering services in connection with the construction, remodeling, or repairing of any privately owned building described as follows, and who indicates on any drawings, specifications, estimates, reports, or other documents furnished in connection with such services that the person is not a licensed professional engineer:
(a) A dwelling house;
(b) A multiple family dwelling house, flat, or apartment containing no more than two families; or
(c) Any one building or structure, except for those buildings or structures referenced in subdivision (8) of this subsection, which provides for the employment, assembly, housing, sleeping, or eating of not more than nine persons, contains less than two thousand square feet, and is not part of another building or structure;
(6) Any person who renders engineering services in connection with the remodeling or repairing of any privately owned, multiple family dwelling house, flat, or apartment containing three or four families, provided that the alteration, renovation, or remodeling does not affect architectural or engineering safety features of the building, and who indicates on any drawings, specifications, estimates, reports, or other documents furnished in connection with such services that the person is not a licensed professional engineer;
(7) Any person or corporation who is offering, but not performing or rendering, professional engineering services if the person or corporation is licensed to practice professional engineering in the state or country of residence or principal place of business;
(8) Any person who renders engineering services in connection with the construction, remodeling, or repairing of any building or structure used exclusively for agricultural purposes.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 117, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1999 H.B. 343, A.L. 2014 S.B. 809, A.L. 2021 H.B. 273 merged with H.B. 476)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXII - Occupations and Professions
Chapter 327 - Architects, Engineers, Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects
Section 327.011 - Definitions.
Section 327.041 - Board, powers and duties — rules, generally, this chapter, procedure.
Section 327.051 - Meetings, when — personnel, employment — compensation of board members.
Section 327.061 - Office, where.
Section 327.075 - Injunction authorized, when.
Section 327.076 - Licensure required, penalty for violation — complaint procedure.
Section 327.091 - Practice of architecture defined.
Section 327.101 - Unauthorized practice prohibited — licensure required — exceptions, when.
Section 327.106 - Reciprocity for architects licensed in Canada, requirements.
Section 327.131 - Applicant for license as architect, qualifications.
Section 327.141 - Application, form, fee.
Section 327.151 - Examination for license, content — passing grade, how determined.
Section 327.161 - Reexamination, when.
Section 327.171 - Professional license, renewal.
Section 327.181 - Practice as professional engineer defined — use of titles, restrictions.
Section 327.191 - Unauthorized practice prohibited — licensure required — exceptions, when.
Section 327.221 - Applicant for license as professional engineer, qualifications.
Section 327.231 - Application, form, fee.
Section 327.241 - Examination for licensure, requirements.
Section 327.251 - Reexamination, when.
Section 327.261 - Professional license, renewal.
Section 327.271 - Inactive license, requirements — return to active.
Section 327.272 - Practice as professional land surveyor defined.
Section 327.281 - Unauthorized practice prohibited.
Section 327.314 - Professional land surveyor, applicant for license, qualifications.
Section 327.321 - Application — form — fee.
Section 327.341 - Reexamination, when.
Section 327.371 - Surveyor exempt from trespass but liable for damages.
Section 327.392 - Professional engineering license issued, when.
Section 327.411 - Personal seal, how used, effect of.
Section 327.431 - Fees to be set by board, how.
Section 327.441 - Denial, revocation, or suspension of license or certificate, grounds for.
Section 327.442 - Disciplinary hearing for censure of license to be held, when.
Section 327.465 - Certificate of registration or authority not required, when — definitions.
Section 327.471 - Attorney general to assist board with legal assistance.
Section 327.481 - Inconsistent laws repealed.
Section 327.600 - Definitions.
Section 327.603 - License required to use title of professional landscape architect.
Section 327.612 - Applicants for licensure as professional landscape architect — qualifications.
Section 327.619 - Examination, failure to pass — reexamination, when.
Section 327.622 - Inactive license status permitted, when.
Section 327.629 - Licensure as professional landscape architect required to practice, exceptions.