Show MINING AND OIL NE NEWS Edited by Ira C. C Tichenor Tichenor l r Licensing Mining Engineers By Ira C. C Tichenor Tichenor- HE last session of the Colorado legislature passed a bill which THE T. T I- I should be enacted into a law in every mineral state slate in the Union nion This tills measure created a state board of engineer examiners and nd the licensing of persons engaged d in the profession of engineer- engineer lag ins In In any of H its branches except military engineering The law provides for a fee of 10 for fr examination and alter after he lie successfully suc suc- passes the examination and offers proof proal that he is a citizen of or orthe the the United States and anti more mor-e than twenty five years ears of age ho may obtain a a license to practice engineering upon the payment of an additional l fee of 5 5 There Is a penalty pro provision ision as follows follos Any person who not then being lawfully authorized to practice engineering engineering engi engi- within this state according to the provisions of this act shall attempt attempt at- at attempt tempt to practice or shall so practice for hire and any person who ho shall shallin shallin in in connection with his name use any designation tending to imply that he Is Isa Isa a licensed engineer within the meaning of this act and any person who shall shan violate any other other- provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of oC a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a a. fine tine or not more than or by imprisonment in the county jail for lor moro more than six months or both The suggestion has been made that the law should be amended to permit permit permit per per- mit alien engineers to Inspect properties or on which outside Interests had ob obtained obtained ob- ob tamed an option to purchase but in view of the fact that the license of a local engineer would be a guarantee of his his' efficiency even this might not be bene ne necessary essary To those engineers who had taken a necessary course of instruction and who ho successfully have been practicing their profession a number of years tars the taking of an examination might be considered an unnecessary essary hardship and a nuisance yet the proceeding would save sae the mining industry or any state from front the odium attached to the work of incompetents or those who pose as mining engineers without having had any form of instruction |