SECTIONS 7830-7839.1 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 7830-7839.1

7830. It is unlawful for anyone other than a geologist registered
under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats,
reports, or other documents with the seal or stamp of a professional
geologist or registered certified specialty geologist, or to use in
any manner the title "professional geologist" or the title of any
registered certified specialty geologist unless registered or
registered and certified under this chapter.

7830.1. It is unlawful for anyone other than a geophysicist
registered under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans,
specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal or
stamp of a registered geophysicist, professional geophysicist, or
registered certified specialty geophysicist, or to use in any manner
the title "registered geophysicist," "professional geophysicist," or
the title of any registered certified specialty geophysicist unless
registered, or registered and certified, under this chapter.

7831. It is unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any plans,
specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal
after the certificate of the registrant, named thereon, has expired
or has been suspended or revoked, unless the certificate has been
renewed or reissued.

7832. Any person, except as in this chapter specifically exempted,
who shall practice or offer to practice geology or geophysics for
others in this state is subject to the provisions of this chapter.

7833. This chapter does not prohibit one or more geologists or
geophysicists from practicing through the entity of a sole
proprietorship, partnership, or corporation. In a partnership or
corporation whose primary activity consists of geological services,
at least one partner or officer shall be a professional geologist. In
a partnership or corporation whose primary activity consists of
geophysical services, at least one partner or officer shall be a
professional geophysicist.

7834. This chapter does not prevent or prohibit an individual,
firm, company, association or corporation whose principal business is
other than the practice of geology or geophysics from employing a
geologist or geophysicist to perform professional services in geology
or geophysics incidental to the conduct of their business.

7835. All geologic plans, specifications, reports, or documents
shall be prepared by a professional geologist or registered certified
specialty geologist, or by a subordinate employee under his or her
direction. In addition, they shall be signed by the professional
geologist or registered certified specialty geologist or stamped with
his or her seal, either of which shall indicate his or her
responsibility for them.

7835.1. All geophysical plans, specifications, reports, or
documents shall be prepared by a professional geophysicist,
registered certified specialty geophysicist, professional geologist,
registered certified specialty geologist, or by a subordinate
employee under his or her direction. In addition, they shall be
signed by the professional geophysicist, registered certified
specialty geophysicist, professional geologist, or registered
certified specialty geologist, or stamped with his or her seal,
either of which shall indicate his or her responsibility for them.

7836. Officers and employees of the United States of America
practicing solely as such officers or employees are exempt from
registration under the provisions of this chapter.

7837. A subordinate to a geologist or geophysicist registered under
this chapter, insofar as he or she acts solely in that capacity, is
exempt from registration under the provisions of this chapter. This
exemption, however, does not permit any subordinate to practice
geology or geophysics for others in his or her own right or to use
the title "professional geologist" or "professional geophysicist."

7838. A civil engineer empowered to practice civil engineering in
this state, and a petroleum engineer registered in this state, under
provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3
of this code insofar as they practice civil engineering in its
various branches or petroleum engineering, respectively, are exempt
from registration under the provisions of this chapter.

7839. This chapter shall not empower a geologist or geophysicist
registered under this chapter to practice or offer to practice civil
engineering and any of its various recognized branches.

7839.1. This chapter shall not empower a geologist registered under
this chapter to practice or offer to practice geophysics for others
in this state except as such geophysical work is related to his
practice of geology.
This chapter shall not empower a geophysicist registered under
this chapter to practice or offer to practice geology for others in
this state except as such geological work is related to his practice
of geophysics.