For Immediate Release
September 18, 2009

FFI Contact: Matt Carrothers
Director of Media Relations
404-656-4269
Professionals with licensing inquiries should contact
the Professional Licensing Boards at 478-207-2440

Actions Taken by the Georgia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors at its September 15 Meeting

Macon, Ga.—The Georgia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors met on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.

The Board voted to approve 300 applicants seeking registration as a professional engineer by comity; 63 regular applicants seeking certification as an engineer-in-training; and 302 senior applicants seeking certification as an engineer-in-training.

The Board voted to approve cease and desist orders from the following individuals for unlicensed practice as a professional engineer:

  • Ben B. Barrow Jr., d/b/a LRA Constructors, Inc., Albany
  • Dan Kemp III, Albany
  • Greg Freeman, Albany
  • John Parker, Marietta
  • Paris Pressley, Newnan

The Board voted to approve cease and desist orders from the following individuals for unlicensed practice as a land surveyor:

  • John Parker, Marietta

The Board voted to approve a consent order from the following individual for assisting unlicensed practice:

  • William Howell, Loganville: Fined $2,500 and five years probation

The Board voted to approve a consent order from the following individual for substandard work:

  • Edwin Russell Koons, Peachtree City: Twelve months probation.

The Georgia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors will hold its next meeting Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. at the Professional Licensing Boards in Macon.