1. 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 and site development; or
2. 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.
B. 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 17.70.030
, of the Farr West City Municipal Code. I have examined the letter report/geologic report to which this certificate is attached and the information and conclusions contained therein are, with 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/DATE
C. 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. (Ord. 12-07)