Engineer B Wife Non-Engineer Firm Management Prohibition Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Engineer_B_Wife_Non-Engineer_Firm_Management_Prohibition_Instance
Properties
Instance of
Non-EngineerFirmManagementProhibitionComplianceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Non-EngineerFirmManagementProhibitionComplianceObligation
Case context
Following Engineer B's stroke, his wife assumed operational management of the structural engineering firm, enabling the firm to continue operating with Engineer Intern C performing all substantive design work and Engineer B signing and sealing drawings with little to no review — an arrangement that circumvented licensure requirements protecting the public.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B's wife and Engineer B's firm
Obligation statement
Engineer B's firm and its principals were obligated to refrain from permitting Engineer B's wife — a non-licensed, non-engineer individual — to assume operational management of the structural engineering firm in a manner that enabled the continued delivery of engineering services without genuine licensed professional oversight, following Engineer B's incapacitation by stroke.
Temporal scope
From the time Engineer B's wife assumed management of the firm following his stroke
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer B Financial Pressure Driving Scope Overreach
derivedFromPrinciple
Non-Engineer Firm Management Prohibition Implicated By Engineer B Wife
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B's wife took over management of the business, and Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C.
Text references
Being the only licensed professional engineer in his firm, for financial and other reasons, Engineer B felt he could not afford to suspend work or close his office. Rather, Engineer B's wife took over management of the business.
Engineer B's wife took over management of the business, and Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C.
TTL
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case16:Engineer_B_Wife_Non-Engineer_Firm_Management_Prohibition_Instance a proeth:Non-EngineerFirmManagementProhibitionComplianceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Wife Non-Engineer Firm Management Prohibition Instance" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case16:Engineer_B_Financial_Pressure_Driving_Scope_Overreach ;
proeth:casecontext "Following Engineer B's stroke, his wife assumed operational management of the structural engineering firm, enabling the firm to continue operating with Engineer Intern C performing all substantive design work and Engineer B signing and sealing drawings with little to no review — an arrangement that circumvented licensure requirements protecting the public." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case16:Non-Engineer_Firm_Management_Prohibition_Implicated_By_Engineer_B_Wife ;
proeth:discoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer B's wife and Engineer B's firm" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Non-Engineer Firm Management Prohibition Compliance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B's firm and its principals were obligated to refrain from permitting Engineer B's wife — a non-licensed, non-engineer individual — to assume operational management of the structural engineering firm in a manner that enabled the continued delivery of engineering services without genuine licensed professional oversight, following Engineer B's incapacitation by stroke." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B's wife took over management of the business, and Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C." ;
proeth:temporalscope "From the time Engineer B's wife assumed management of the firm following his stroke" ;
proeth:textreferences "Being the only licensed professional engineer in his firm, for financial and other reasons, Engineer B felt he could not afford to suspend work or close his office. Rather, Engineer B's wife took over management of the business.",
"Engineer B's wife took over management of the business, and Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.729405"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 16 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
16
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
First case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
Attributed to
Case 16 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T12:12:21.729405
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction