322.180 Grounds for denial of licensure and for disciplinary action

The board may refuse to issue, refuse to renew, suspend, or revoke a license, may reprimand, place on probation, or admonish a licensee, may impose a fine on a licensee not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or may impose any combination of these penalties when it finds that an applicant or licensee: (1) Engaged in any practice of fraud or deceit in obtaining a license; (2) Engaged in gross negligence, incompetence, or misconduct in the practice of engineering or land surveying; (3) Violated any provision of the administrative regulations promulgated by the board, or the code of professional practice and conduct adopted by the board and incorporated in administrative regulations; this chapter, (4) Employed, procured, or induced a person not licensed to practice engineering or land surveying in this state; (5) Aided or abetted a person not licensed to practice engineering or land surveying in this state; (6) Been granted a license upon a mistake of material fact; (7) Been convicted by a court of law of a felony, if in accordance with KRS Chapter 335B; (8) Become a chronic or persistent alcoholic or has become drug-addicted so that continued practice is dangerous to clients or to the public safety; (9) Developed a physical or mental disability or other condition so that continued practice is dangerous to clients or to the public safety; (10) Violated any order of suspension or the terms or conditions of any order of probation issued by the board; (11) Had a license or registration certificate to practice as an engineer or land surveyor denied, or revoked in another jurisdiction on grounds sufficient to cause licensure to be denied, limited, suspended, probated, or revoked in this state; suspended, probated, limited, (12) Engaged in conduct likely to deceive or defraud the public; (13) Presented or attempted to use as his or her own the license, seal, or stamp of another; (14) Falsely impersonated any other licensee; (15) Attempted to use an expired, suspended, or revoked license; (16) Provided certification for any plan, specification, plat, report, or physical description not prepared by him or her or under his or her direct supervision; or (17) Applied the seal, stamp, signature, or title block of another professional engineer or professional land surveyor to a plan, specification, plat, report, or physical description that was not prepared by the other professional engineer or land surveyor

Effective:June 29, 2017 History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 158, sec. 70, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 163, sec. 10, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 214, sec. 16, effective January 1, 1999. -- Amended 1986 Ky

Acts ch. 291, sec. 17, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch

273, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 148, sec. 13

-- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky

Stat. sec. 1599e-20