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HOUSE BILL 1643
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Representatives King, Veloria, Heavey, Reams and Jacobsen; by request of Department of Licensing
Read first time 02/03/93. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to landscape architects; amending RCW 18.96.040, 18.96.080, 18.96.090, 18.96.100, and 18.96.150; and reenacting and amending RCW 18.96.110.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.96.040 and 1985 c 18 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
There is created a state board of registration
for landscape architects. The board shall consist of ((three)) four
landscape architects and ((two members)) one member of the
general public. Members of the board shall be appointed by the governor and
must be residents of this state having the qualifications required by this
chapter.
No public member of the board may be a past or present member of any other licensing board under this title. No public member may make his or her own livelihood from, nor have a parent, spouse, or child make their respective livelihood from providing landscape architect services, or from enterprises dealing in landscape architecture.
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. RCW 18.96.080 and 1985 c 7 s 74 are each amended to read as follows:
Application for registration shall be filed
with the director prior to the date set for examination and shall contain statements
made under oath showing the applicant's education and a detailed summary of ((his))
practical experience, and shall contain not less than ((five)) three
references((, of whom three or more shall be)) who are landscape
architects having personal knowledge of ((his)) the applicant's
landscape architectural experience.
((The application fee shall be determined by
the director as provided in RCW 43.24.086 and shall include a nonrefundable
examination fee, and a fee for issuance of the certificate.
The application fee for reexamination shall be
determined by the director as provided in RCW 43.24.086 and shall include, and
must be filed with the director not less than six days prior to the date set
for examination.
At any time within the first two years
following August 11, 1969, the board shall certify for registration, without
examination, any applicant who submits proof that he has had at least a
combination of education and experience substantially equivalent to six years
of practice in landscape architecture prior to August 11, 1969.)) The application fee for initial examination shall
be determined by the director as provided in RCW 43.24.086. The application
and fee must be submitted to the agency prior to the application deadline
established by the director.
Fees for initial examination and reexamination shall be determined by the director as provided in RCW 43.24.086, and must be filed with the agency prior to the application deadline established by the director.
Sec. 3. RCW 18.96.090 and 1985 c 18 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
Examinations of applicants for certificates of registration shall be held at least annually or at such times and places as the board may determine. The board shall determine from the examination and the material submitted with the applications whether or not the applicants possess sufficient knowledge, ability and moral fitness to safely and properly practice landscape architecture and to hold themselves out to the public as persons qualified for that practice.
The scope of the examination and methods of examination procedure shall be prescribed by the board with special reference to landscape construction materials and methods, grading and drainage, plant materials suited for use in the northwest, specifications and supervisory practice, history and theory of landscape architecture relative to landscape architectural design, site planning and land design, subdivision, urban design, and a practical knowledge of botany, horticulture and similar subjects related to the practice of landscape architecture. The board may adopt an appropriate national examination and grading procedure.
Applicants who fail to pass ((any subjects))
sections of the examination shall be permitted to retake the examination
in the ((subjects)) sections failed. A passing grade in ((any
subject area)) a section shall exempt the applicant from examination
in that subject for five years((: PROVIDED, That failure to complete
successfully the entire examination within five years will result in requiring
a retake of the entire examination)). The board may determine the standard
for passing grades computed on a scale of one hundred percent. A certificate
of registration shall be granted by the director to all qualified applicants
who shall be certified by the board as having passed the required examination
and as having given satisfactory proof of completion of the required
experience.
Sec. 4. RCW 18.96.100 and 1985 c 7 s 75 are each amended to read as follows:
The director may, upon payment of a ((filing
and investigation)) reciprocity application fee ((including))
and the current registration fee in an amount as determined by the
director as provided in RCW 43.24.086, grant a certificate of registration ((without
examination)), upon recommendation by the board, to any applicant
who is a registered landscape architect in any other state or country whose
requirements for registration are at least substantially equivalent to the
requirements of this state for registration by examination, and which extends
the same privileges of reciprocity to landscape architects registered in this
state.
Sec. 5. RCW 18.96.110 and 1985 c 18 s 3 and 1985 c 7 s 76 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
The renewal dates for certificates of
registration shall ((expire on the last day of June three years following
their issuance or renewal)) be set by the director. The director
shall set the fee for renewal which shall be determined as provided in RCW
43.24.086. ((Renewal may be effected during the month of June by payment to
the director of the required fee.
In case any)) If a registrant fails to pay the renewal fee ((before))
within thirty days after the ((due)) renewal 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)) shall be
delinquent. The renewal fee for a delinquent renewal and the penalty fee for a
delinquent renewal shall be established by the director. 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 or her registration for a period of ((one year))
more than five years may ((reinstate only on reexamination as is
required for new registrants)) be reinstated under the circumstances as
the board determines.
Sec. 6. RCW 18.96.150 and 1969 ex.s. c 158 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:
The director shall issue a certificate of registration upon payment of the registration fee as provided in this chapter to any applicant who has satisfactorily met all requirements for registration. All certificates of registration shall show the full name of the registrant, shall have a serial number and shall be signed by the chairman and the executive secretary of the board, and by the director.
Each registrant shall obtain a seal of a design authorized by the board, bearing the registrant's name and the legend, "registered landscape architect". All sheets of drawings and title pages of specifications prepared by the registrant shall be stamped with said seal.
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