LICENSING LAW R.S. 37, Chapter 3, as Amended …

1 LICENSING LAW. 37, Chapter 3, as Amended June, 2012. Chapter 3. Architects 141. Policy and Definitions A. In order to safeguard life, health, selected by the governor as provided for in and property and to promote the public welfare, the Subsection D. All nominees and appointees shall be practice of architecture in this state is reserved to domiciled in the state of Louisiana. The five those persons who have the proper qualifications and architects members shall be appointed, one each, have been registered by the board. from the five districts provided for in Paragraph (2). of this Subsection. The governor has the right to B. As used in this Chapter : remove any or all members of the board for inefficiency or neglect of duty. (1) Board means the State Board of Architectural Examiners. (2) The districts shall be composed as follows: (2) Architect means a person who is technically and legally qualified to (a) District 1: practice architecture. Orleans, Plaquemines and St. Bernard.

2 (3) The practice of (b) District 2: architecture is the rendering or offering of the Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. services specified in this Paragraph in connection James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, with the design, construction, enlargement, or Terrebonne and Washington. alteration of a building, a group of buildings, or the space within and surrounding buildings which have (c) District 3: human occupancy or habitation as their principal Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, purpose. Such services shall include the following: Iberville, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Martin, planning; providing preliminary studies, designs, Tangipahoa, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana. drawings, specifications, and other technical submissions; administration of construction (d) District 4: contracts; and the coordination of any element of Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, technical submissions prepared by others, including Cameron, Evangeline, Grant, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, but not limited to engineers and landscape architects, Lafayette, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, as appropriate.

3 The practice of architecture shall not Sabine, St. Landry, St. Mary, Vermilion and Vernon. include the practice of engineering as defined in 37:682; however, a registered architect may perform (e) District 5: such engineering work as is incidental to the practice Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, of architecture. Claiborne, Concordia, DeSoto, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, C. The definition of the practice of Ouachita, Red River, Richland, Tensas, Union, architecture set forth in Paragraph (B)(3) of this Webster, West Carroll and Winn. section may include, but shall not be construed as precluding non-licensed persons from performing the B.(1) The five architects members shall be and following services: project development; feasibility shall remain domiciled in this state and in the district studies; planning; energy consumption analysis; and from which he is nominated and appointed. Each interior design. shall be a licensed architect and shall have practiced architecture for at least seven years.

4 Each architect 142. Board Appointed by Governor; Removal member shall be appointed by the governor from a list of three nominees elected from each of the five A.(1) The State Board of Architecture districts. The board shall not adopt any rule or Examiners shall consist of seven member, five of regulation which imposes further eligibility whom shall be architects selected by the governor as requirements for membership on the board. provided for in Subsection B, one selected by the Governor as provided for in Subsection C, and one (2) In order to determine the list of nominees for the architect members, there shall be a 144. Powers, Authority and Domicile of the statewide election to elect three nominees from each Board district. Any licensed architect who wishes to be a candidate and have his name placed on the ballot A. Four members of the board shall send a letter by certified mail to the director of constitute a quorum for the purpose of holding the board indicating his intent to be a candidate.

5 The examinations granting certificates, and transacting letter shall be accompanied by a curriculum vitae and other business with the Scope of this Chapter . shall be certify that if elected, the architect will serve. B. The certificate of the board shall (3) The election for nominees shall be entitle the holder to practice as an architect in by mail ballot, and only one architect shall be a Louisiana. candidate for nomination from the same architectural firm, corporation, agency, partnership, or other entity. C. The board shall have the power to After the election, the three candidates from each adopt and amend such rules and regulations as are district who received the highest numbers of votes reasonably necessary for the proper performance of shall have their names submitted to the governor as its duties, for carrying out the purposes of this nominees. All licensed architects residing in this Chapter , for continuing education, for the regulation state shall be eligible to vote in the election.

6 Of the proceedings before it, and for the regulation of the practice of architecture under the laws of this (4) The initial and subsequent elections state. shall be to fill vacancies as they occur. The elections shall be completed by the board within ninety days of D. The procedure for the adoption, the effective vacancy. amendment, and repeal of any rule or regulation shall be in accordance with the Administrative Procedure C. The governor shall appoint one Act, 49:951 et seq., and the rules and regulations member of the board who shall be an architect who which may be adopted by the board shall be available for seven years prior to appointment has been for public inspection at the office of the State Board employed full time in architectural education, or who of Architectural Examiners. for seven years prior to appointment, has been an administrator of building design, construction, or E. The board may employ clerical, or design standards for government at the local, state, or other assistants as are necessary for the proper national level.

7 Performance of its work; may make expenditures from its funds for any purpose which is reasonably D. The governor shall appoint one necessary for the proper performance of its duties member of the board who shall be a citizen of the under this Chapter ; and may, if necessary, or upon United states who is not actively engaged in or advice of the attorney general, hire counsel for retired from the professions of architecture, advice, for the representation of the board against engineering, interior design, or landscape violators of this Chapter and for the defense of any architecture, or the occupation of a contractor, or the action brought against the board or its members or design or construction of buildings. staff. 143. Term of Office F. The domicile of the board shall be Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A. Each member shall serve six years, or until his successor is duly appointed, except the 145. Architects; Requirements for;. initial educational or regulatory member appointed Certificates; Continuing Education pursuant to 37:142(C) shall serve a term of four years and the initial public member appointed A.

8 No person shall practice pursuant to 37:142(D) shall serve a term of five architecture in this state or use the title architect , or years. any term derived therefrom, or display or use any title, sign, advertisement, or other device to indicate B. The board shall advise the governor that such person practices or offers to practice of the expiration of the term of the board members. architecture, or renders architectural services, or is an All vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as architect, unless such person shall have secured from prescribed for new members in R. S. 37:142. the board a certificate or registration and license in the manner hereinafter provided, and shall thereafter LICENSING LAW - 2. comply with the provisions of the laws of the state of experience, requirements for which are delineated by Louisiana governing the registration and LICENSING of the National Council of Architectural Registration architects. Boards or the board. B. Persons licensed by the board to D.

9 The board may adopt rules and practice architecture may, by rule of the board, be regulations in accordance with the Administrative required to earn annually up to twelve hours of board Procedure Act governing the approval, selection, approved continuing education pertaining to administration, participation, and completion of the building-design in connection with public health examination and the Intern Development Program. safety, or welfare. LICENSING ; Architecture 146. Examination Before Board;. Qualifications To obtain an initial license to practice architecture in Louisiana, an applicant shall present A. Unless previously registered and satisfactory evidence to the board of practical currently licensed on September 1, 1972, no person experience of training or experience in the field of shall practice architecture until he has passed an architecture. The experience shall be demonstrated examination approved by the board. only by one of the following. B. For the purpose of qualifying for (1) Satisfactory completion of the the examination, the applicant shall present training requirements delineated by the National satisfactory evidence to the board that he: Council of Architectural Registration Board in the Intern Development Program.

10 (1) Is of good moral character. (2) A certificate record certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration (2) Has paid his debt to Boards that the applicant is currently registered to society if he has ever been convicted of a felony. practice architecture in another state. (3) Holds a professional Section 2. If any provision this Act or the degree from a school whose curriculum has been application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting shall not affect other provisions or applications of Boards. this Act which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end the (4) Is enrolled in the Intern provisions of this Act are hereby declared severable. Development Program administered by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. Section 3. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not signed by C. Any applicant not the holder of a the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to first professional degree from a school whose become law without signature by the governor, as curriculum has been accredited by the National provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution Architectural Accrediting Board, may take the of Louisiana.