Post-Sale Safety Notifying Engineer
Class
575c7d91
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-SaleSafetyNotifyingEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer who originally designed a structure, after selling the property, learns of potentially unsafe modifications and bears obligations to notify both the new owner in writing and the relevant municipal authority, to document all communications, and to escalate to county or state building officials if no corrective action is taken within a reasonable period.
Properties
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer who originally designed a structure, after selling the property, learns of potentially unsafe modifications and bears obligations to notify both the new owner in writing and the relevant municipal authority, to document all communications, and to escalate to county or state building officials if no corrective action is taken within a reasonable period.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer who originally designed a structure subsequently learns, after selling or transferring the property, that the structure has been modified by new owners in ways that may create structural collapse risk, bearing obligations to notify the new owner in writing and to contact the relevant municipal authority with jurisdiction, even absent any ongoing contractual relationship with the property or its current owners.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A had designed and built a barn with horse stalls on his property
TTL
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rdfs:label "Post-Sale Safety Notifying Engineer" ;
rdfs:comment "A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer who originally designed a structure, after selling the property, learns of potentially unsafe modifications and bears obligations to notify both the new owner in writing and the relevant municipal authority, to document all communications, and to escalate to county or state building officials if no corrective action is taken within a reasonable period." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicResponsibilityRole> .
Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
575c7d91a3d2b34d...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
['78', '132']
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T04:53:13.391527+00:00
First Discovered In Case
78
Generated
2026-02-27T04:53:13.391527+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 78 Extraction