Amendment ASA1-AB358

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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO 2001 ASSEMBLY BILL 358

October 11, 2001 - Offered by Environment.

AB358-ASA1,1,3 An Act to amend 470.025 (2); and to create 470.025 (12) of the statutes; relating to: exceptions from the requirement to obtain a license to practice professional geology, professional hydrology, or professional soil science.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB358-ASA1, s. 1 Section 1. 470.025 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB358-ASA1,1,9 470.025 (2) An officer or employee of the federal government, a state agency, as defined in s. 16.61 (2) (d), or a local governmental unit, as defined in s. 16.965 (1) (a), while engaged within this state in the practice of professional geology, hydrology, or soil science for the federal government, a state agency, or a local governmental unit.

AB358-ASA1, s. 2 Section 2. 470.025 (12) of the statutes is created to read:

AB358-ASA1,2,5 470.025 (12) A person engaged within this state in the practice of a profession, other than professional geology, hydrology, or soil science, including archaeology, aquatic biology, bacteriology, fish management, forestry, horticulture, limnology, mycology, plant pathology, stream ecology, wetland science, or wildlife management, where the practice of the profession by the person involves knowledge within the range of professional geology, hydrology, or soil science, if the person meets all of the following conditions:

AB358-ASA1,2,12 (a) The practice of the profession by the person involves only the incidental practice of professional geology, hydrology, or soil science. For purposes of this paragraph, a practice of professional geology, hydrology, or soil science is incidental to the practice of another profession if professional geology, hydrology, or soil science is related to, but not the main purpose of, the other profession, or if a person engages in a practice of professional geology, hydrology, or soil science while primarily engaged in the practice of the other profession.

AB358-ASA1,2,16 (b) The person does not designate himself or herself as a professional geologist, hydrologist, or soil scientist or use any other title, letters, or designation which represents or may tend to represent that the person is a professional geologist, hydrologist, or soil scientist.

AB358-ASA1,2,17 (End)