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Any person practicing or offering to practice soil evaluation within the meaning of this chapter who, through verbal claim, sign, advertisement, or letterhead, represents himself as a licensed professional soil scientist without holding a license from the Board shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.\n\nB\n\nNo person shall represent himself as a certified professional wetland delineator unless he has been so certified by the Board. Any person practicing or offering to practice wetland delineation within the meaning of this chapter who, through verbal claim, sign, advertisement, or letterhead, represents himself as a certified professional wetland delineator without holding such a certificate from the Board shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1370194,"text":"No person shall represent himself as a licensed professional soil scientist unless he has been so licensed by the Board. 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This law was first created in 1987. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 626 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1987 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1988, chapter 765; in 2002, chapter 784<\/a>; in 2011, chapters 777<\/a> and 859<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1467203,"object_type":"law","relational_id":368097,"identifier":"54.1-2208","token":"54.1\/II\/22\/2\/54.1-2208","url":"\/54.1-2208\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-2208\/","token":"54.1\/II\/22\/2\/54.1-2208","dublin_core":{"Title":"Unlawful representation as a licensed professional soil scientist or certified wetland delineator","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-2208","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> No person shall represent himself as a licensed professional soil scientist<\/span> unless he has been so licensed by the Board<\/span>. Any person practicing or offering to practice soil evaluation<\/span> within the meaning of this chapter who, through verbal claim, sign, advertisement, or letterhead, represents himself as a licensed professional soil scientist<\/span> without holding a license from the Board<\/span> shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> No person shall represent himself as a certified professional wetland delineator unless he has been so certified by the Board<\/span>. Any person practicing or offering to practice wetland delineation<\/span> within the meaning of this chapter who, through verbal claim, sign, advertisement, or letterhead, represents himself as a certified professional wetland delineator without holding such a certificate from the Board<\/span> shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nUNLAWFUL REPRESENTATION AS A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL SOIL SCIENTIST OR CERTIFIED\nWETLAND DELINEATOR (\u00a7 54.1-2208)\n\nA. No person shall represent himself as a licensed professional soil scientist\nunless he has been so licensed by the Board. Any person practicing or offering\nto practice soil evaluation within the meaning of this chapter who, through\nverbal claim, sign, advertisement, or letterhead, represents himself as a\nlicensed professional soil scientist without holding a license from the Board\nshall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.\n\nB. No person shall represent himself as a certified professional wetland\ndelineator unless he has been so certified by the Board. Any person practicing\nor offering to practice wetland delineation within the meaning of this chapter\nwho, through verbal claim, sign, advertisement, or letterhead, represents\nhimself as a certified professional wetland delineator without holding such a\ncertificate from the Board shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.\n\nHISTORY: 1987, c. 626, \u00a7 54-971; 1988, c. 765; 2002, c. 784; 2011, cc. 777,\n859.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}