327.600. Definitions. - Missouri Statutes

Definitions.

327.600. As used in sections 327.600 to 327.635, the following termsmean:

(1) "Landscape architecture", the performance of professionalservices, including but not limited to consultations, research, planning,design or responsible supervision in connection with the development ofland, in which the dominant purpose of such professional services is thepreservation, enhancement or determination of land uses, natural landfeatures, ground cover and planting, naturalistic and esthetic value,settings and approaches to structures or other improvements, naturaldrainage and the consideration and determination of inherent problems ofthe land relating to erosion, wear and tear, blight or other hazard;

(2) "Practice of landscape architecture", the location andarrangement of such tangible objects and features as are incidental andnecessary to the purposes specified in the definition of landscapearchitecture, but shall not include the design of structures or facilitieswith separate and self-contained purposes such as are ordinarily includedin the practice of engineering or architecture, and shall not include themaking of final land plats for official approval or recording.

(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al. § 1, A.L. 2001 H.B. 567)