Expired COA 4

[haynewp]

I am being asked to stamp drawings with an expired COA number on them. The excuse is that the company will get the registration current again soon. I am refusing to stamp them. Would I face disciplinary action by stamping for a company with an expired COA?

 

[dik]

Check with the professional association. I recently redesigned and sealed a six storey addition by an engineer who had retired a couple of years earlier. I worked with him 50 years earlier and I just called him to let him know that I was doing this... just a professional courtesy.

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[IRstuff]

"expired" seems to me to be the same as not "in good standing"

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[zelgar]

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not certain what is a COA number. Is this something that needs to be on the drawing that needs to be certified or is it just general information (e.g., the drawing information box)? If it's not required, ask for a version of the drawing that doesn't contain the COA so you can certify the drawing.

 

[haynewp]

A COA is a company’s license in a state to do a certain type of business there. It’s illegal to a practice in some states without it. It may be called different things in different states. I ran it up to our company president and it is going to be resolved before sending any drawings. Shouldn’t put salesmen that are not even licensed engineers into vice president positions in an engineering company and allow them to make such decisions.

 

[SWComposites]

Shouldn’t put salesmen that are not even licensed engineers into vice president positions in an engineering company and allow them to make such decisions. Sigh. Welcome to the industrial company world.

 

[Sparweb]

Shouldn’t put salesmen that are not even licensed engineers into vice president positions in an engineering company and allow them to make such decisions.

Hey, if Boieng can do it, why can't you?

 

[Enable]

Just wanted to say good for you haynewp. You made the correct call by not stamping.

 

[BAretired]

What the hell is a COA? I assume it is Certification of something, but what? Everyone is using acronyms nowadays because they can't be bothered to type the full name. Usually, an acronym has dozens of different meanings, so if you don't know it, you are out of luck.

 

[phamENG]

Certificate of Authorization. Typically issued by a Secretary of State to a business authorized to do business within its borders.

 

[BAretired]

Thanks phamENG.

 

[haynewp]

Try doing work for the DoD (that's U.S. Department of Defense) where everything is an acronym and the same acronym can refer different things. TTYL BA.

 

[BAretired]

Yes haynewp, people use so many acronyms today, they've forgotten how to spell the words.

 

[GregLocock]

Ford used to have a list of TOFLAs, not that TOFLA is a TOFLA

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