Responsible Charge Standard Clarification Active State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResponsibleChargeStandardClarificationActiveState
Definition
State in which a professional ethics body has issued a clarification or modification of a prior ruling on responsible charge standards, establishing that an engineer need not personally prepare every drawing or document but must conduct a sufficiently detailed check and review of work prepared under the engineer's direction and control. This state reflects a settled but recently clarified normative standard that governs what level of supervisory engagement satisfies the ethical and legal requirements for sealing engineering documents.
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State in which a professional ethics body has issued a clarification or modification of a prior ruling on responsible charge standards, establishing that an engineer need not personally prepare every drawing or document but must conduct a sufficiently detailed check and review of work prepared under the engineer's direction and control. This state reflects a settled but recently clarified normative standard that governs what level of supervisory engagement satisfies the ethical and legal requirements for sealing engineering documents.
Source Evidence
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Were we to decide BER Case 86-2 today, we would conclude that it was not unethical for the engineer in that instance to seal plans that were not personally prepared by him as long as those plans were checked and reviewed by the engineer in some detail
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Content Hash
2036b976472b5342...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
120
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T12:53:22.520107+00:00
First Discovered In Case
120
Generated
2026-03-01T12:53:22.520107+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 120 Extraction