Post-Service Client Regulatory Violation Discovery State

Class b36c6a1c
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-ServiceClientRegulatoryViolationDiscoveryState
Definition

State in which a licensed professional engineer, having completed services for a client, subsequently and incidentally discovers — through observation rather than active investigation — that the client has taken actions on the project site that constitute substantial violations of federal and/or state environmental laws and regulations, triggering obligations that extend beyond the concluded contractual relationship to the protection of public welfare and regulatory compliance.

Properties
Subclass of
State
http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer, having completed services for a client, subsequently and incidentally discovers — through observation rather than active investigation — that the client has taken actions on the project site that constitute substantial violations of federal and/or state environmental laws and regulations, triggering obligations that extend beyond the concluded contractual relationship to the protection of public welfare and regulatory compliance.
Source Evidence
Source Text
A few months after Engineer A completes the services, he drives by his client's property and notices that the client has installed a substantial amount of fill material on more than ½ an acre across a portion of the wetlands without any permits, variances, or permissions.
TTL
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proethica_intermediate_extended: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate-extended> . <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-ServiceClientRegulatoryViolationDiscoveryState> a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "Post-Service Client Regulatory Violation Discovery State" ; rdfs:comment "State in which a licensed professional engineer, having completed services for a client, subsequently and incidentally discovers — through observation rather than active investigation — that the client has taken actions on the project site that constitute substantial violations of federal and/or state environmental laws and regulations, triggering obligations that extend beyond the concluded contractual relationship to the protection of public welfare and regulatory compliance." ; rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
Metadata
Type
Class
Content Hash
b36c6a1c2cfaf20b...
Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
86
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T17:54:35.426855+00:00
First Discovered In Case
86
Generated
2026-02-27T17:54:35.426855+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 86 Extraction