INNOVATION January-February 2018

D I S C I P L I N E A N D E N F O R C E M E N T

ENFORCEMENT ACTION – UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE AND MISUSE OF TITLE Engineers and Geoscientists BC has a duty under the Engineers and Geoscientists Act to protect the public by preventing individuals who are not registered as professional engineers or geoscientists from engaging in professional engineering or geoscience, or from using titles or designations that could mislead the public into believing that they are entitled to engage in either profession.

• The association entered into a letter of undertaking with Brad Cook, a non-member who implied that he was a professional engineer in correspondence and in a document filed with the British Columbia Supreme Court. Cook agreed to, among other things, rectify the error by seeking amendment of the court document and refrain from implying status as a professional engineer in the future. • The association entered into a letter of undertaking with Milan Balun, a non-member who had submitted drawings to an Authority Having Jurisdiction on which he affixed a professional engineer’s stamp without the member’s knowledge. Balun admitted to contravening the Engineers and Geoscientists Act, agreed to refrain from such conduct in the future, and agreed that the association could refer to the admissions in the letter of undertaking in future legal proceedings if he breached any of its terms. You can see more unauthorized practice and misuse of title file outcomes on our website at egbc.ca/Complaints-Discipline/ Unauthorized-Practice-and-Use-of-Title. To report unauthorized practice or misuse of title, please contact Rohan Hill, Staff Lawyer, Regulatory Affairs by email at rhill@egbc.ca.

To fulfill this duty, the association takes action to prevent the unauthorized practice and misuse of title by individuals who are not members or licensees of the association. Files are opened in response to concerns received from the public or from other public bodies, as well as in response to concerns identified internally by association staff. The association typically handles 60 to 100 unauthorized practice and misuse of title files each year. We refer to these internally as ‘enforcement’ files. While most enforcement files are resolved by consent, the association takes legal action to seek assistance from the court in cases where non- members do not voluntarily bring themselves into compliance with the Engineers and Geoscientists Act . Recently concluded enforcement files included the following:

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