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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76750</law_id><section_number>54.1-402.1</section_number><catch_line>State and local government employees; license exemptions for persons employed prior to March 8, 1992</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>54.1-406</reference><reference>54.1-410</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Professions and Occupations Regulated by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Boards Within the Department</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Architects, Engineers, Surveyors, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Landscape Architects</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person engaged in the <span class="dictionary">practice of engineering</span>, architecture, or land surveying as those terms are defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-400/">54.1-400</a> as a regular, full-time, salaried employee of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision of the Commonwealth on March 8, 1992, who remains employed by any state agency or political subdivision shall be exempt until June 30, 2010, from the licensure requirements of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="License required" href="/54.1-406/">54.1-406</a> provided the employee does not furnish advisory service for compensation to the public or as an independent contracting <span class="dictionary">party</span> in this Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof in connection with engineering, architectural, or land surveying matters. The chief administrative officer of any agency of the Commonwealth or political subdivision thereof employing persons engaged in the <span class="dictionary">practice of engineering</span>, architecture, or land surveying as regular, full-time, salaried employees shall have the authority and responsibility to determine the engineering, architecture, and land surveying positions which have <span class="dictionary">responsible charge</span> of engineering, architectural, or land surveying decisions.</p></section></text><history>1992, cc. 780, 783; 1994, c. 379.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
