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§59-46.3.
§59-46.3.
A. "Architect" means any person who engages in the practice of
architecture as hereinafter defined.
B. The "practice of architecture" shall be defined as rendering or
offering to render certain services, in connection with the design and
construction, enlargement or alteration of a building or a group of
buildings and the space surrounding such buildings, including
buildings which have as their principal purpose human occupancy or
habitation; the services referred to include planning, providing
preliminary studies, designs, drawings, specifications and other
technical submissions, the administration of construction contracts,
and the coordination of any elements of technical submissions prepared
by others including, as appropriate and without limitation, consulting
engineers and landscape architects; provided, that the practice of
architecture shall include such other professional services as may be
necessary for the rendering of or offering to render architectural
services.
C. "Licensed architect" means an architect holding a current license
or certificate of registration issued by the Board.
D. "Registration or licensure" means a certificate of registration or
licensure issued by the Board to a person. The definition of "license"
or "registration" shall be synonymous.
E. A "building" means a structure consisting of a foundation, walls,
roof, with or without other parts; provided, however, nothing in The
State Architectural Act shall be held or construed to have any
application to any building, or to the repairing or remodeling of any
building, to be used for one-family residential purposes, duplexes, or
apartment houses not exceeding two stories in height, to any
warehouse, maintenance building, garage or storage building not
exceeding two stories in height, or to a hotel, lodge or fraternal
building not exceeding two stories in height, or to any farm
improvements, or industrial or commercial buildings not exceeding two
stories in height, nor to any school building where the reasonably
estimated total cost for the construction, where structural changes
are being made in remodeling or repairing of such school building does
not exceed the sum of Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00). A basement
is not to be counted as a story for the purpose of counting stories of
a building for height regulations. Provided, however, it shall be
unlawful for any person other than an architect duly licensed as
provided in The State Architectural Act to engage in the planning,
designing and preparation of drawings and specifications for the
alteration or construction of any building to be used as an armory,
auditorium, assembly hall, convention hall, church, educational
building, convent, dormitory, gymnasium, hospital, library, bonded
warehouse, passenger station, power house, municipal building, county
building, state building, federal building, radio or television
station, stadium or theater where the reasonably estimated total cost
for construction, remodeling or repairing of such building exceeds the
sum of Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00).
F. "Board" means The Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects and
Landscape Architects of Oklahoma.
G. "Certificate of authority" means the authorization granted by the
Board for persons to practice or offer to practice architecture or
landscape architecture through a partnership, firm, association,
corporation, limited liability company or limited liability
partnership.
H. "Technical submissions" means designs, drawings, specifications,
studies and other technical reports prepared in the course of
practicing architecture.
I. "Responsible control" means the amount of control and detailed
knowledge of the content of technical submissions during their
preparation as is ordinarily exercised by licensed architects applying
the required professional standard of care.
J. "Landscape architect" means a person registered to practice
landscape architecture as provided in The State Architectural Act.
K. "Landscape architecture" means the performance of professional
services such as teaching, consultations, investigations,
reconnaissance, research, planning, design, preparation of
construction drawings and specifications, and construction observation
in connection with the arranging of land and the elements thereon for
public and private use and enjoyment, including the design and layout
of roadways, service areas, parking areas, walkways, steps, ramps,
pools, the location of buildings and other structures, and the grading
of the land, surface and subsoil drainage, erosion control, planting,
reforestation, and the preservation of the natural landscape, in
accordance with accepted professional standards.
The practice of landscape architecture shall include the location and
arrangement of such tangible objects and features as are incidental
and necessary to the purpose outlined for landscape architecture in
The State Architectural Act, but shall not include the design of
structures or facilities with separate and self-contained purposes for
habitation or industry, or the design of public streets, highways,
utilities, storm and sanitary sewers and sewage treatment facilities,
such as are ordinarily included in the practice of engineering or
architecture.
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