Engineer A Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits Smithtown Road Project
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/105#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Within_Ethical_Limits_Smithtown_Road_Project
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Engineer A's faithful agent duty to Smithtown required honest advisory and evaluative services, but that duty was bounded by the ethical prohibition on conflicts of interest that arose from his dual role.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (Part-Time Town Engineer and Private Consultant)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to serve Smithtown's interests faithfully as part-time town engineer — including providing honest advice on contractor selection and impartial evaluation of contractor performance — but only within the ethical limits imposed by the NSPE Code, which precluded him from allowing his private commercial interest to influence his advisory and evaluative functions.
Temporal scope
Throughout Engineer A's tenure as part-time town engineer for the road project
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Conflict of Interest State Engineer A Smithtown Road Project
derivedFromPrinciple
Faithful Agent Obligation With in Ethical Limits Invoked for Engineer A
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is the part-time town engineer for Smithtown and also has a consulting engineering practice.
Text references
Engineer A is the part-time town engineer for Smithtown and also has a consulting engineering practice.
Engineer A, in his role as town engineer, reviews Engineer B's preliminary work and becomes convinced that Engineer B's performance on the contract does not meet the standards as outlined in Engineer B's contract with the town.
With Engineer A's advice and concurrence, Smithtown selects Engineer B to provide design services for a local road project.
TTL
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case105:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Within_Ethical_Limits_Smithtown_Road_Project a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits Smithtown Road Project" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case105:Engineer_A_Advisory_Role_to_Design_Contractor_Transition_Prohibition ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case105:Conflict_of_Interest_State_Engineer_A_Smithtown_Road_Project ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A's faithful agent duty to Smithtown required honest advisory and evaluative services, but that duty was bounded by the ethical prohibition on conflicts of interest that arose from his dual role." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
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proeth:discoveredincase "105" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "105" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (Part-Time Town Engineer and Private Consultant)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to serve Smithtown's interests faithfully as part-time town engineer — including providing honest advice on contractor selection and impartial evaluation of contractor performance — but only within the ethical limits imposed by the NSPE Code, which precluded him from allowing his private commercial interest to influence his advisory and evaluative functions." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is the part-time town engineer for Smithtown and also has a consulting engineering practice." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout Engineer A's tenure as part-time town engineer for the road project" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is the part-time town engineer for Smithtown and also has a consulting engineering practice.",
"Engineer A, in his role as town engineer, reviews Engineer B's preliminary work and becomes convinced that Engineer B's performance on the contract does not meet the standards as outlined in Engineer B's contract with the town.",
"With Engineer A's advice and concurrence, Smithtown selects Engineer B to provide design services for a local road project." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 105 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T08:46:32.089151"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 105 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
105
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00
First case
105
Generated
2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00
Attributed to
Case 105 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T08:46:32.089151
Generated by
ProEthica Case 105 Extraction