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(1) A letter report (described in Section 15.05.080, Provo City Code) or a geologic report (described in Section 15.05.090, Provo City Code) shall be approved and signed by one (1) of the following, whose primary area of expertise is required to address the particular issue:

(a) a geotechnical engineer who shall be a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Utah, qualified by training and experience in the application of the principles of soil mechanics to foundation investigation, slope stability, and site development; or

(b) an engineering geologist who shall be a graduate in geology or engineering geology from an accredited university with at least five (5) years of professional geologic experience of which at least three (3) full years shall be in the field of engineering geology.

(2) A letter report or a geologic report shall contain the following certificate:

CERTIFICATE

I hereby certify that I am a geotechnical engineer or an engineering geologist, as those terms are defined in Section 15.05.100 of the Ordinances of Provo City. I have examined the letter report/geologic report to which this certificate is attached and the information and conclusions contained therein are, without any reasonable reservation not stated therein, accurate and complete. All procedures and tests used in said letter report/geologic report meet minimum applicable professional standards.

Signature ________________________

(3) In addition to any applicable private civil remedies, it shall be unlawful to knowingly make a false, untrue, or incomplete statement in a letter report or a geologic report or to sign the certificate described above knowing the same to be materially false or not true.

(4) In general, it shall be the responsibility of a qualified engineering geologist to perform fault studies and landslide investigations, while it shall be the responsibility of a qualified geotechnical engineer to prepare soils and foundation studies, particularly addressing such issues as expansive and collapsible soils, liquefaction evaluations and engineering aspects of landslide studies.

(Rep&ReEn 1999-34, Am 2006-50)