18VAC145-30-140: Standards of practice and conduct

A Virginia certified professional wetland delineator:

1. Shall not submit any false statements, make any misrepresentations, or fail to disclose any facts requested concerning any application for certification or recertification.

2. Shall not engage in any fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in advertising, soliciting, or providing professional services.

3. Shall not knowingly sign any plans, drawings, blueprints, surveys, reports, specifications, maps, or other documents not prepared or reviewed and approved by the certificate holder.

4. Shall not knowingly represent a client or employer on a project on which the certificate holder represents or has represented another client or employer without making full disclosure thereof.

5. Shall express a professional opinion only when the professional opinion is founded on adequate knowledge of established facts at issue and based on a background of technical competence in the subject matter.

6. Shall not knowingly misrepresent factual information in expressing a professional opinion.

7. Shall exercise reasonable care when rendering professional services and shall apply the technical knowledge, skill, and terminology ordinarily applied by practicing wetland professionals.

8. Shall not utilize the design, drawings, specifications, or work of another regulant to complete or to replicate any work without the written consent of the person who or organization that owns the design, drawings, specifications, or work.