Public Official Conflict of Interest Standard - Town Engineer Dual Role
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/105#Public_Official_Conflict_of_Interest_Standard_-_Town_Engineer_Dual_Role
Properties
Instance of
PublicOfficialConflictofInterestStandard
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicOfficialConflictofInterestStandard
Confidence
0.93
Created by
NSPE and professional engineering ethics community
Document title
Professional Norms Governing Engineer-Public Officials in Dual Roles
Importance
high
Used by
Engineer A, BER analysis
Used in context
Governs Engineer A's ethical obligations arising from his simultaneous role as part-time town engineer (public official) and private consulting engineer, establishing that he must not exploit his public supervisory authority to displace a competitor and then benefit privately from that displacement
Version
N/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 offers, and Smithtown agrees, that Engineer A's firm should perform the design work
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
TTL
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proeth:usedby "Engineer A, BER analysis" ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
105
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T08:29:01.063154+00:00
First case
105
Generated
2026-02-28T08:29:01.063154+00:00
Attributed to
Case 105 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T08:46:32.081294
Generated by
ProEthica Case 105 Extraction