322.290 Functions of board.
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The board shall:
(1)Administer this chapter;
(2)Adopt an official seal;
(3)Provide suitable office quarters at its own expense;
(4)Adopt and amend all bylaws and rules of procedure, and promulgate administrative
regulations, consistent with the Constitution and laws of the state and reasonably
necessary for the proper performance of its duties and the regulation and fair
conduct of the proceedings before it;
(5)Appoint an executive director and assistant executive directors and fix their
compensation;
(6)Employ any clerk or other assistants necessary for the proper performance of its
work;
(7)Appoint a general counsel and any assistant general counsel as it deems necessary
and fix their compensation;
(8)Appoint investigatory personnel, as it deems necessary, and fix their compensation;
(9)Appoint committees of licensees, as it deems necessary, to review issues before the
board and make recommendations to the board;
(10)Make expenditures, as it deems necessary, for any purpose that it considers
reasonably necessary for the proper performance of its duties, including paying the
expenses of the board's delegates to national conventions of and membership dues
to the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying or other
affiliated national boards or societies;
(11)Adopt and promulgate by administrative regulation a code of professional practice
and conduct, which shall be based upon generally recognized principles of
professional ethical conduct and binding upon persons licensed under this chapter.
A code of professional practice and conduct shall be made known to all licensees
and applicants and shall include but not be limited to the following objectives:
(a)The protection of the public health, safety, and welfare;
(b)The maintenance of standards of objectivity, truthfulness, and reliability in
public statements;
(c)The avoidance of conflicts of interest;
(d)The prohibition of solicitation or acceptance of engineering or land surveying
work on any basis other than qualifications for the work offered;
(e)The prohibition of association with any person engaging in illegal or dishonest
activities; and
(f)The limitation of professional service to the area of competence of the
licensee;
(12)Adopt appropriate standards of practice;
(13)Promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to
establish rules for the use of stamps, seals, and signatures in electronic transactions;
(14)Bring, in its name, injunctive proceedings in the Franklin Circuit Court to enjoin
any person, business entity, or combination thereof in violation of KRS 322.020 or
KRS 322.060;
(15)Adopt a program for continuing education for its individual land surveyor licensees.
No individual land surveyor licensee shall be permitted to renew his or her license
unless the minimum annual continuing education requirements are met, in addition
to any other requirement for renewal. The program for continuing education shall
not exceed a total of eight
(8)credit clock hours per year and shall not include
testing or examination of the licensee in any manner; and
(16)Adopt a program for continuing education for its individual engineer licensees.
(a)The program for continuing education shall not exceed a total of fifteen
credit clock hours per year and shall not include testing or examination of the
licensee in any manner.
(b)No individual engineer licensee shall be permitted to renew his or her license
unless the minimum annual continuing education requirements are met,
except as provided in paragraph
(c)of this subsection, in addition to any other
requirement for renewal.
(c)Any person licensed under this chapter as a professional engineer prior to
January 1, 1972, who has maintained his or her license in good standing since
becoming licensed shall not be subject to any continuing education
requirements.