Predecessor Engineer Seal Retained on Substantially Altered Plans State
Class
fbdc2717
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PredecessorEngineerSealRetainedonSubstantiallyAlteredPlansState
Definition
State in which a successor engineer has made substantial design changes to plans bearing a predecessor engineer's signature and seal, without removing or superseding that seal, without noting the changes made, and without signing the altered sheets — resulting in documents that falsely attribute the revised design to the predecessor engineer and expose the predecessor to professional liability for work they did not perform or approve.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a successor engineer has made substantial design changes to plans bearing a predecessor engineer's signature and seal, without removing or superseding that seal, without noting the changes made, and without signing the altered sheets — resulting in documents that falsely attribute the revised design to the predecessor engineer and expose the predecessor to professional liability for work they did not perform or approve.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a licensed professional engineer's signed and sealed reports have been covertly altered by a non-engineer supervisor or principal after the engineer refused to make the requested changes — such that the reports submitted to the client no longer reflect the engineer's professional findings, yet bear the engineer's seal and signature, creating a fraudulent misrepresentation of the engineer's professional conclusions and exposing third parties (property owners) to direct harm from decisions made on the basis of the falsified documents.
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
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
fbdc271704aea8eb...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
173
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T14:15:44.209156+00:00
First Discovered In Case
173
Generated
2026-03-01T14:15:44.209156+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 173 Extraction