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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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