Engineers have assumed an armload of "powers" over the years......but the last I checked, codes are laws, and the only 'party' that can 'supercede' a law is a jury.
Not that anything will slow down an engineer in his assumptions that he, and he alone, is all-knowing and all-wise. I once put my job on the line, when an engineer insisted it was OK to stand on the bumper of a crane, to provide additional counter-weight!
