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From: Marin Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering in Florida
Date: 1999/11/11
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> we pay for them. You might wish this to be so, but it is
> definitely NOT true. There are many counter examples where
> you are not allowed to use a professional title without being
> licensed by the state.

Well, you notice that I did say "pretty much" - there are always
exceptions. But as I pointed out, you can call yourself Doctor Dewar and
that's fine up until you attempt to do so to convince someone you can
(legally) remove their appendix. If I were making out a check to you and
asked you how you wanted it made out, you could say "Make it payable to
Poindexter Schwartz" and it would be quite legal to cash it so long as
there is no intent to defraud.

Obviously, using the name "Officer Odie" in conjunction with a badge is
illegal. I'd have no reason to think that if I opened up shop under the
name "Marin Condic - Civil Engineer" and proposed to build bridges for
you, that the law might not take umbrage at this. I'd expect to see the
real Officer Odie show up and perhaps take me to see a judge somewhere.
The common thread in all that is that there is some attempt to defraud
the public, which is always illegal even if the specific instance is not
spelled out in statute.

MDC
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