Referral Fees from PE Exempt Industry Firm

[Mechie10]

What is your experience and position on referral fees by an unlicensed design consultant from a PE exempt industry ? The Professional Engineering ethics standards seem pretty clear and prohibit such fees to be received or given by the PE unless they are from a sales or marketing company that is retained by the PE doing the engineering work. However, if your a PE and you do also work in exempt industries it seems that the referral fee issue is becoming more common and will have to be dealt with at some point.

 

[Ron]

Doesn't matter if the work is in an exempt industry, if you are a PE, it is not ethical.

 

[JStephen]

Something that may not be obvious is that an "exempt industry" may or may not exempt consultants to that industry- depends on how they write the state rules- just a side note.

 

[IRstuff]

I don't think that matters. If you are a PE, you are bound by your rules.

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[EngineeringEric]

If you are a PE it doesn't matter where you work, you must follow the requirements of your license and practice on;y what you know and be ethical in your decision making process (money makes us not ethical is the stretch here i think)

getting fee's is not part of the license, it doesn't matter if it is industry norm for non-Engineers in your field. if your field is exempt then you don't need to be licensed, but if you are licensed then you cannot turn the license off when convenient.