54.1-402.1 - State and local government employees; license exemptions for persons employed prior to March 8, 1992. - Virginia Statutes

§ 54.1-402.1. State and local government employees; license exemptions forpersons employed prior to March 8, 1992.

Any person engaged in the practice of engineering, architecture, or landsurveying as those terms are defined in § 54.1-400 as a regular, full-time,salaried employee of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision of theCommonwealth on March 8, 1992, who remains employed by any state agency orpolitical subdivision shall be exempt until June 30, 2010, from the licensurerequirements of § 54.1-406 provided the employee does not furnish advisoryservice for compensation to the public or as an independent contracting partyin this Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof in connection withengineering, architectural, or land surveying matters. The chiefadministrative officer of any agency of the Commonwealth or politicalsubdivision thereof employing persons engaged in the practice of engineering,architecture, or land surveying as regular, full-time, salaried employeesshall have the authority and responsibility to determine the engineering,architecture, and land surveying positions which have responsible charge ofengineering, architectural, or land surveying decisions.

(1992, cc. 780, 783; 1994, c. 379.)