Responsible Charge Integrity Violated by Engineer B
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/173#Responsible_Charge_Integrity_Violated_by_Engineer_B
Properties
Instance of
ResponsibleChargeIntegrityandSealAuthorityPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResponsibleChargeIntegrityandSealAuthorityPrinciple
Applied to
38-sheet public improvement plan set
5-sheet grading plan set
Balancing with
Client efficiency interests
Practical burden of re-sealing 43 sheets
Concrete expression
Engineer B made major design changes to grading plans, storm drains, pipe dimensions, sewers, and utilities across a 43-sheet plan set without removing Engineer A's seal or affixing his own, thereby allowing Engineer A's professional certification to stand on work Engineer A never reviewed or approved.
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
Engineer B's failure to re-seal modified sheets directly violated the principle that a seal certifies responsible charge over the specific documents bearing it — Engineer A exercised responsible charge over the original designs, not over Engineer B's modifications.
Invoked by
Engineer B Undocumented Alteration Successor Design Engineer
Tension resolution
The responsible charge principle admits no exception for practical inconvenience; every sheet containing material changes must be re-sealed by the engineer who made those changes.
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B did not note what changes were made nor did he sign any of the sheets, including the cover sheet.
Text references
Engineer B did not note what changes were made nor did he sign any of the sheets, including the cover sheet.
Engineer B reviewed the original drawings, made changes on the grading plans, including deletion of one sheet, raising the elevation of the housing pads and changing routing of the street.
He made no notation of the changes, did not sign the plans, and left Engineer A's seal and signature intact.
TTL
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case173:Responsible_Charge_Integrity_Violated_by_Engineer_B a proeth:ResponsibleChargeIntegrityandSealAuthorityPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Responsible Charge Integrity Violated by Engineer B" ;
proeth:appliedto "38-sheet public improvement plan set",
"5-sheet grading plan set" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Client efficiency interests",
"Practical burden of re-sealing 43 sheets" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer B made major design changes to grading plans, storm drains, pipe dimensions, sewers, and utilities across a 43-sheet plan set without removing Engineer A's seal or affixing his own, thereby allowing Engineer A's professional certification to stand on work Engineer A never reviewed or approved." ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "173" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T14:20:21.416449+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "173" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T14:20:21.416449+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Engineer B's failure to re-seal modified sheets directly violated the principle that a seal certifies responsible charge over the specific documents bearing it — Engineer A exercised responsible charge over the original designs, not over Engineer B's modifications." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer B Undocumented Alteration Successor Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Responsible Charge Integrity and Seal Authority Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B did not note what changes were made nor did he sign any of the sheets, including the cover sheet." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The responsible charge principle admits no exception for practical inconvenience; every sheet containing material changes must be re-sealed by the engineer who made those changes." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer B did not note what changes were made nor did he sign any of the sheets, including the cover sheet.",
"Engineer B reviewed the original drawings, made changes on the grading plans, including deletion of one sheet, raising the elevation of the housing pads and changing routing of the street.",
"He made no notation of the changes, did not sign the plans, and left Engineer A's seal and signature intact." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 173 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:41:54.499035"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 173 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
173
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T14:20:21.416449+00:00
First case
173
Generated
2026-03-01T14:20:21.416449+00:00
Attributed to
Case 173 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:41:54.499035
Generated by
ProEthica Case 173 Extraction