Part-Time Public Role with Private Practice Conflict State
Class
e43e020c
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Part-TimePublicRolewithPrivatePracticeConflictState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer simultaneously holds a part-time official role with a governmental or public body (such as part-time town engineer) and operates a private consulting engineering practice, and has exercised advisory influence over the selection of a competing or complementary professional for a public project — subsequently positioning their own private firm to benefit from the termination of that selected professional, creating a structural conflict of interest that implicates both the advisory role and the private commercial interest.
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Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer simultaneously holds a part-time official role with a governmental or public body (such as part-time town engineer) and operates a private consulting engineering practice, and has exercised advisory influence over the selection of a competing or complementary professional for a public project — subsequently positioning their own private firm to benefit from the termination of that selected professional, creating a structural conflict of interest that implicates both the advisory role and the private commercial interest.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a professional engineer simultaneously holds an advisory or oversight role for a public client (e.g., part-time municipal engineer) and is also positioned to be retained by that same client for design or technical services, creating a structural tension between the advisory duty to act in the client's best interest and the self-interest in securing design work.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A is the part-time town engineer for Smithtown and also has a consulting engineering practice
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
e43e020c9503edae...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
105
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T08:29:10.304456+00:00
First Discovered In Case
105
Generated
2026-02-28T08:29:10.304456+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 105 Extraction