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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3917

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Warnke, Zimmerman, Williams, Newhouse, Gaspard, McDermott and Saling

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.

AN ACT Relating to landscape architects; amending RCW 18.96.040, 18.96.110, and 18.96.130; repealing RCW 43.131.265 and 43.131.266; and providing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 4, chapter 158, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. and RCW 18.96.040 are each amended to read as follows:

          There is created a state board of registration for landscape architects.  The board shall consist of three landscape architects and two public members ((from closely related professions and/or trades)).  Members of the board shall be appointed by the governor and must be residents of this state having the qualifications required by this chapter.

The landscape architect members of the board must, while serving on the board, be actively engaged in their profession or trade and, immediately preceding appointment, have had at least five years experience in responsible charge of work or teaching within their profession or trade.

        Sec. 2.  Section 11, chapter 158, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as amended by section 87, chapter 30, Laws of 1975 1st ex. sess. and RCW 18.96.110 are each amended to read as follows:

          Certificates of registration shall expire on the last day of June three years following their issuance or renewal.  The  director shall set the ((yearly)) fee for renewal which shall  be  determined as provided in RCW ((43.24.085 as now or hereafter amended)) 43.24.086.  Renewal may be effected during the month of June by payment to the director of the required fee.

          In case any registrant fails to pay the renewal fee before thirty days after the due date, the renewal fee shall be the current fee plus an amount equal to one year's fee at the discretion of the board:  PROVIDED, That any registrant in good standing, upon fully retiring from landscape architectural practice, may withdraw from practice by giving written notice to the director, and may thereafter resume practice at any time upon payment of the then current annual renewal fee.  Any registrant, other than a properly withdrawn licensee, who fails to renew his registration for a period of one year may reinstate only on reexamination as is required for new registrants.

        Sec. 3.  Section 13, chapter 158, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. and RCW 18.96.130 are each amended to read as follows:

          Any person may prefer charges of fraud, deceit, gross negligence, incompetency, or misconduct against any registrant.  Such charges shall be in writing and shall be sworn to by the person making them and shall be filed with the director.

          All charges unless dismissed by the director as unfounded or trivial, shall be heard by the board within three months after the date on which they have been preferred.

An action of suspension, revocation, ((or)) refusal to renew, or a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars per violation by the director, shall be based upon the findings of the board after charges and evidence in support thereof have been heard and determined.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.  The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

                   (1) Section 6, chapter 197, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.131.265; and

          (2) Section 32, chapter 197, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.131.266.