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BPC § 6735.1

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Business and Professions Code - BPC
  2. DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000. - 9998.12.]
  3. CHAPTER 7. Professional Engineers [6700. - 6799.]
  4. ARTICLE 3. Application of Chapter [6730. - 6749.]

The signing of civil engineering plans, specifications, reports, or documents which relate to the design of fixed works shall not impose a legal duty or responsibility upon the person signing the plans, specifications, reports, or documents to supervise the construction of engineering structures or the construction of the fixed works which are the subject of the plans, specifications, reports, or documents. However, nothing in this section shall preclude a civil engineer and a client from entering into a contractual agreement which includes a mutually acceptable arrangement for the provision of construction supervision services. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall modify the liability of a civil engineer who undertakes, contractually or otherwise, the provision of construction supervision services for rendering those services.

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