Engineer A Multi-State Advertising State Registration Law Conformance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Engineer_A_Multi-State_Advertising_State_Registration_Law_Conformance
Properties
Instance of
StateRegistrationLawConformanceinAdvertisingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#StateRegistrationLawConformanceinAdvertisingObligation
Case context
Engineer A distributes business cards across multiple states (B, C, D, E) with varying licensure status; the Board evaluates each situation against both the ethics code and applicable state registration laws.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (all situations)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to ensure that business card distribution and any associated business development activities in each state conformed to that state's registration laws and rules of practice, including not soliciting work in states where neither Engineer A nor the firm is duly licensed.
Temporal scope
Whenever business cards are distributed or business development activities are conducted in any state
Source Evidence
Source text
such activities must conform to state registration laws and rules of practice
Text references
such activities must conform to state registration laws and rules of practice
this board does not view the act of handing out a business card by an individual who is not licensed in a state as unethical as long as there is no deception and the engineer is conforming with state registration laws and rules and practice
TTL
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case128:Engineer_A_Multi-State_Advertising_State_Registration_Law_Conformance a proeth:StateRegistrationLawConformanceinAdvertisingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Multi-State Advertising State Registration Law Conformance" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case128:Business_Development_Representative_Firm_Licensure_Prerequisite_Ethical_Activity,
case128:Engineer_A_Situation_4_Social_Context_Card_Distribution_No_Violation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case128:Sit4-BusinessCard-StateB-SocialDistribution,
case128:Sit4-ThirdPartyRedistribution-StateC ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A distributes business cards across multiple states (B, C, D, E) with varying licensure status; the Board evaluates each situation against both the ethics code and applicable state registration laws." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case128:Jurisdiction-Specific_Ethics_Compliance_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Multi-State_Card_Distribution ;
proeth:discoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (all situations)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "State Registration Law Conformance in Advertising Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to ensure that business card distribution and any associated business development activities in each state conformed to that state's registration laws and rules of practice, including not soliciting work in states where neither Engineer A nor the firm is duly licensed." ;
proeth:sourcetext "such activities must conform to state registration laws and rules of practice" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Whenever business cards are distributed or business development activities are conducted in any state" ;
proeth:textreferences "such activities must conform to state registration laws and rules of practice",
"this board does not view the act of handing out a business card by an individual who is not licensed in a state as unethical as long as there is no deception and the engineer is conforming with state registration laws and rules and practice" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 128 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T22:14:48.662338"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 128 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
128
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00
First case
128
Generated
2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00
Attributed to
Case 128 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T22:14:48.662338
Generated by
ProEthica Case 128 Extraction