Engineer A Cross-Discipline PE License Non-Sufficiency County Surveyor
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/158#Engineer_A_Cross-Discipline_PE_License_Non-Sufficiency_County_Surveyor
Properties
Instance of
Cross-DisciplinePELicenseNon-SufficiencyforStructuralAssignmentAcceptanceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Cross-DisciplinePELicenseNon-SufficiencyforStructuralAssignmentAcceptanceObligation
Case context
Local ordinance required a PE for the county surveyor position; Engineer A's PE license satisfied the legal credential requirement but not the ethical competence requirement for the technical domains involved.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that holding a PE license in chemical engineering did not confer competence in surveying or highway engineering, and therefore did not ethically authorize acceptance of the county surveyor position whose duties required oversight of surveying reports and highway improvement projects.
Temporal scope
Before and at the time of accepting the appointment
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
A local county ordinance requires that the position of county surveyor be filled by a P.E.
Text references
A local county ordinance requires that the position of county surveyor be filled by a P.E.
Engineer A accepted the position.
Engineer A, a P.E. with experience and educational background solely in the field of chemical engineering.
TTL
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case158:Engineer_A_Cross-Discipline_PE_License_Non-Sufficiency_County_Surveyor a proeth:Cross-DisciplinePELicenseNon-SufficiencyforStructuralAssignmentAcceptanceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Cross-Discipline PE License Non-Sufficiency County Surveyor" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case158:Engineer_A_Ethics_Exceeds_Legal_Permissibility_County_Surveyor_PE_License ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case158:PE_Ordinance_Requirement_Formally_Satisfied_Without_Domain_Alignment ;
proeth:casecontext "Local ordinance required a PE for the county surveyor position; Engineer A's PE license satisfied the legal credential requirement but not the ethical competence requirement for the technical domains involved." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case158:PE-License-Non-Equivalence_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_County_Surveyor_Appointment,
case158:PE_License_Non-Equivalence_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_Appointment ;
proeth:discoveredincase "158" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T15:45:06.151500+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "158" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T15:45:06.151500+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Cross-Discipline PE License Non-Sufficiency for Structural Assignment Acceptance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to recognize that holding a PE license in chemical engineering did not confer competence in surveying or highway engineering, and therefore did not ethically authorize acceptance of the county surveyor position whose duties required oversight of surveying reports and highway improvement projects." ;
proeth:sourcetext "A local county ordinance requires that the position of county surveyor be filled by a P.E." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Before and at the time of accepting the appointment" ;
proeth:textreferences "A local county ordinance requires that the position of county surveyor be filled by a P.E.",
"Engineer A accepted the position.",
"Engineer A, a P.E. with experience and educational background solely in the field of chemical engineering." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 158 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T15:59:11.849702"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 158 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
158
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T15:45:06.151500+00:00
First case
158
Generated
2026-03-01T15:45:06.151500+00:00
Attributed to
Case 158 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T15:59:11.849702
Generated by
ProEthica Case 158 Extraction