Personal Misconduct Ethics Code Jurisdiction Applied to Engineer F Contractor Revocation
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Personal_Misconduct_Ethics_Code_Jurisdiction_Applied_to_Engineer_F_Contractor_Revocation
Properties
Instance of
PersonalMisconductEthicsCodeJurisdictionPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PersonalMisconductEthicsCodeJurisdictionPrinciple
Applied to
Engineer F's contractor license revocation for license lending
Balancing with
Cross-License Disciplinary History Disclosure Scope Principle
Concrete expression
The Board applied BER Case 75-5 to hold that Engineer F's contractor license revocation — though not arising from the practice of professional engineering — was nonetheless subject to the NSPE Code of Ethics because the code's purpose is to ensure public confidence in professional integrity, which requires looking at the whole person
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Interpretation
The ethics code's jurisdiction extends to conduct outside the technical practice of engineering when that conduct undermines public confidence in the engineer's integrity and character
Invoked by
Engineer F Contractor License Revocation Omitting Engineer
Tension resolution
The whole-person character standard overrides the narrow technical scope of the employment question, requiring disclosure of the contractor license revocation
Source Evidence
Source text
BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers.
Text references
BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers
The present case involves such a situation
personal misconduct of the kind indicated in this case is subject to the Code of Ethics and may be dealt with accordingly under the code in addition to whatever action may be appropriate by legal authorities
TTL
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:sourcetext "BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The whole-person character standard overrides the narrow technical scope of the employment question, requiring disclosure of the contractor license revocation" ;
proeth:textreferences "BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers",
"The present case involves such a situation",
"personal misconduct of the kind indicated in this case is subject to the Code of Ethics and may be dealt with accordingly under the code in addition to whatever action may be appropriate by legal authorities" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
148
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T22:59:35.259666+00:00
First case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T22:59:35.259666+00:00
Attributed to
Case 148 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:11:08.566570
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction