Business Card Licensure Ambiguity State
Class
5d1fd662
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#BusinessCardLicensureAmbiguityState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer distributes business cards or professional identification materials that create ambiguity about the jurisdictions in which the engineer holds licensure — either through absence of a physical address (preventing inference of licensure jurisdiction), through address-licensure mismatch without clarification, or through omission of the states of licensure — such that a reasonable recipient could form a false impression about the engineer's licensure standing, triggering an obligation to provide clarity sufficient to prevent deceptive inference.
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Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer distributes business cards or professional identification materials that create ambiguity about the jurisdictions in which the engineer holds licensure — either through absence of a physical address (preventing inference of licensure jurisdiction), through address-licensure mismatch without clarification, or through omission of the states of licensure — such that a reasonable recipient could form a false impression about the engineer's licensure standing, triggering an obligation to provide clarity sufficient to prevent deceptive inference.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer is licensed in States B, C, and D, but hands out business cards at a business meeting in State E. The business card states NO physical address. The BER found this to be unacceptable
TTL
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rdfs:comment "State in which a licensed professional engineer distributes business cards or professional identification materials that create ambiguity about the jurisdictions in which the engineer holds licensure — either through absence of a physical address (preventing inference of licensure jurisdiction), through address-licensure mismatch without clarification, or through omission of the states of licensure — such that a reasonable recipient could form a false impression about the engineer's licensure standing, triggering an obligation to provide clarity sufficient to prevent deceptive inference." ;
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Metadata
Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
5d1fd6622c5dfbd6...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
60
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T23:01:21.964143+00:00
First Discovered In Case
60
Generated
2026-02-25T23:01:21.964143+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 60 Extraction