Engineer Doe County Engineer Self-Designed Plan Approval Recommendation Non-Issuance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/143#Engineer_Doe_County_Engineer_Self-Designed_Plan_Approval_Recommendation_Non-Issuance
Properties
Instance of
CountyEngineerSelf-DesignedPlanApprovalRecommendationNon-IssuanceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CountyEngineerSelf-DesignedPlanApprovalRecommendationNon-IssuanceObligation
Case context
Engineer Doe used his county engineer authority to submit and recommend approval of subdivision plans he had personally designed as a private consultant, dividing his loyalty between the county (requiring objective review) and the private developer client.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Doe
Obligation statement
Engineer Doe, as county engineer, was obligated to refrain from issuing any recommendation for approval of subdivision plans that he personally prepared in his private consulting capacity, as such a recommendation was structurally self-serving and eliminated the independent technical review the county engineer recommendation function was designed to provide.
Temporal scope
At the time of submitting and recommending the subdivision plans in the county engineer capacity
Relationships
competesWith
County Engineer Self-Designed Plan Approval Recommendation Non-Issuance John Doe County Engineer
defeasibleUnder
Doe County Engineer Submission Authority Over Own Private Plans
Source Evidence
Source text
He would be in violation of Section 8(b) even if he had not been a member of the county planning board by virtue of his employment as the county engineer and the responsibility of the county engineer to submit the plans to the county planning board with recommendation.
Text references
He would be in violation of Section 8(b) even if he had not been a member of the county planning board by virtue of his employment as the county engineer and the responsibility of the county engineer to submit the plans to the county planning board with recommendation.
TTL
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case143:Engineer_Doe_County_Engineer_Self-Designed_Plan_Approval_Recommendation_Non-Issuance a proeth:CountyEngineerSelf-DesignedPlanApprovalRecommendationNon-IssuanceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Doe County Engineer Self-Designed Plan Approval Recommendation Non-Issuance" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case143:County_Engineer_Self-Designed_Plan_Approval_Recommendation_Non-Issuance_John_Doe_County_Engineer ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case143:Doe_County_Engineer_Submission_Authority_Over_Own_Private_Plans ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer Doe used his county engineer authority to submit and recommend approval of subdivision plans he had personally designed as a private consultant, dividing his loyalty between the county (requiring objective review) and the private developer client." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case143:Non-Self-Serving_Advisory_Obligation_Violated_By_John_Doe_County_Engineer,
case143:Public_Service_Engineer_Absolute_Conflict_Prohibition_Non-Waivability_Invoked_in_Engineer_Doe_Case ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "143" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Doe" ;
proeth:obligationclass "County Engineer Self-Designed Plan Approval Recommendation Non-Issuance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Doe, as county engineer, was obligated to refrain from issuing any recommendation for approval of subdivision plans that he personally prepared in his private consulting capacity, as such a recommendation was structurally self-serving and eliminated the independent technical review the county engineer recommendation function was designed to provide." ;
proeth:sourcetext "He would be in violation of Section 8(b) even if he had not been a member of the county planning board by virtue of his employment as the county engineer and the responsibility of the county engineer to submit the plans to the county planning board with recommendation." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of submitting and recommending the subdivision plans in the county engineer capacity" ;
proeth:textreferences "He would be in violation of Section 8(b) even if he had not been a member of the county planning board by virtue of his employment as the county engineer and the responsibility of the county engineer to submit the plans to the county planning board with recommendation." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 143 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:52:09.584004"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
143
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00
First case
143
Generated
2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00
Attributed to
Case 143 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:52:09.584004
Generated by
ProEthica Case 143 Extraction