Engineer A Situation 4 Social Context Card Distribution No Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Engineer_A_Situation_4_Social_Context_Card_Distribution_No_Violation
Properties
Instance of
SocialContextPEBusinessCardDistributionNon-ViolationRecognitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SocialContextPEBusinessCardDistributionNon-ViolationRecognitionObligation
Case context
Engineer A, licensed only in State B, provides his State B business card to a non-engineer friend during a social (non-business) visit to State C.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.95
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer A (Situation 4)
Obligation statement
Engineer A had no ethics obligation violated by distributing a State B business card (accurate for State B where licensed) to a non-engineer friend during a social visit to State C, as the social context and non-engineer recipient preclude any deceptive representation of licensure.
Temporal scope
At the time of the social visit to State C
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
as to Situation 4, the Board can see no violation of the NSPE Code
Text references
Engineer A's distribution of his business card during a social occasion was entirely proper and was not intended as a representation that Engineer A was licensed in State C
as to Situation 4, the Board can see no violation of the NSPE Code
TTL
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case128:Engineer_A_Situation_4_Social_Context_Card_Distribution_No_Violation a proeth:SocialContextPEBusinessCardDistributionNon-ViolationRecognitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Situation 4 Social Context Card Distribution No Violation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case128:Engineer_A_Multi-State_Advertising_State_Registration_Law_Conformance ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case128:Engineer_A_Multi-State_Advertising_State_Registration_Law_Conformance ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A, licensed only in State B, provides his State B business card to a non-engineer friend during a social (non-business) visit to State C." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Situation_4_Social_Context_Card_Distribution_—_No_Violation>,
case128:Social_Context_PE_Title_Display_Non-Violation_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Situation_4 ;
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 "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (Situation 4)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Social Context PE Business Card Distribution Non-Violation Recognition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A had no ethics obligation violated by distributing a State B business card (accurate for State B where licensed) to a non-engineer friend during a social visit to State C, as the social context and non-engineer recipient preclude any deceptive representation of licensure." ;
proeth:sourcetext "as to Situation 4, the Board can see no violation of the NSPE Code" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of the social visit to State C" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A's distribution of his business card during a social occasion was entirely proper and was not intended as a representation that Engineer A was licensed in State C",
"as to Situation 4, the Board can see no violation of the NSPE Code" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 128 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T22:14:48.661270"^^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
2026-02-28T22:14:48.661270
Generated by
ProEthica Case 128 Extraction