§ 7208. Exempt persons for the professions of engineering and land\nsurveying. This article shall not be construed to affect or prevent the\nfollowing, provided that no title, sign, card or device shall be used in\nsuch manner as to tend to convey the impression that the person\nrendering such service is a professional engineer or a land surveyor\nlicensed in this state or is practicing engineering or land surveying:\n a. Offering to practice in this state as a professional engineer or\nland surveyor by any person not a resident of, and having no established\nplace of practice in this state, provided that such person is legally\nqualified for such practice in his own state or country;\n b. Practice as a professional engineer or land surveyor in this state\nby any person not a resident, or having no established place of practice\nin this state, or any person resident in this state but who has arrived\nin this state within six months, provided, however, such a person shall\nhave filed an application for license as a professional engineer or land\nsurveyor, and is legally qualified for such practice in the state or\ncountry in which he resides or has his place of practice or in which he\nhad his previous residence or place of practice, such exemption\ncontinuing for only such reasonable time as the board requires to grant\nor deny the application for license, and a person intending to practice\nunder this subdivision shall so state on the application;\n c. Practice of engineering or land surveying, by an employee of a\ncounty or town, in the construction, improvement or maintenance of a\ncounty road or town highway, or by an employee of a county, city, town\nor village, in the construction, improvement or maintenance of any\npublic work wherein the contemplated expenditure for the completed\nproject does not exceed five thousand dollars;\n d. Operation or maintenance of steam, power, or refrigeration plants\nby legally authorized persons not licensed under this article or persons\nengaged or employed as an engine man, operator or driver of any engine\nor of any mechanical, electrical, chemical or other device or machine;\n e. Making of surveys by professional engineers, except that the\ndetermination of real property boundaries may be done only by a licensed\nland surveyor;\n f. Employment or supervision of interns or other persons qualified by\neducation or experience by professional engineers or land surveyors as\nassistants in the performance of engineering or land surveying, or as\nconsultants or employees in special fields related to but not uniquely\nengineering or land surveying, provided that the engineers or land\nsurveyors employing or supervising such persons shall not be relieved of\nany responsibility whatsoever by delegation to such persons, and\nprovided further that such persons who have attained the bachelor's\nlevel of studies in accordance with the requirements of section\nseventy-two hundred six of this title may be employed as junior or\nassistant engineers or junior or assistant land surveyors, or similar\ntitles, to act under the general direction of a professional engineer or\nland surveyor, or in work not covered by this article;\n g. Employment of any person as a junior or assistant engineer or\njunior or assistant land surveyor in the civil service of the state or\nits political subdivisions in a position the title of which was approved\nand in use as of July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one, provided such\nperson acts under the general direction of a licensed professional\nengineer or land surveyor;\n h. Execution by a contractor or by others of work designed by a\nprofessional engineer, or land surveyor, or the superintendence of such\nwork as a superintendent, foreman, or inspector;\n i. The practice of architecture by an architect licensed in this\nstate, or the practice of landscape architecture by a landscape\narchitect licensed in this state, provided that no such architect or\nlandsc
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