§ 16004 Civil Engineer Definition

• •A civil engineer is someone officially registered under California law.
• •To be called a civil engineer, you must follow the rules in Chapter 7 of the Business and Professions Code.
• •If you're not registered, you can't legally call yourself a civil engineer.

Someone designs a bridge but isn't registered as a civil engineer.

They can't call themselves a civil engineer because they didn't follow the registration rules in the law.