327.603. License required to use title of landscape architect--architects, professional engineers and land surveyors may provide landscape services without a landscape license.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

327.603. License required to use title of landscape architect--architects, professional engineers and land surveyors may provide landscape services without a landscape license.

License required to use title of landscape architect--architects,professional engineers and land surveyors may provide landscapeservices without a landscape license.

327.603. 1. One year from the appointment of the landscapearchitecture division, no person shall practice or offer to practice, orhold himself or herself out as a landscape architect or as being able topractice landscape architecture in this state or to use in connection withhis or her name or otherwise assume, or advertise unless he or she islicensed as required by this chapter. Nothing in sections 327.600 to327.635 shall be construed to require licensing of employees of the stateof Missouri or its political subdivisions while performing duties for thestate of Missouri or a political subdivision, provided the project does notjeopardize the public health, safety and welfare. Sections 327.600 to327.635 shall not be construed to prohibit those persons engaged in nurseryoccupations, gardeners, landscape contractors, home builders or residentialdevelopers from preparing planting plans and items incidental thereto,provided the project scope does not jeopardize the public health, safetyand welfare; nor shall sections 327.600 to 327.635 be construed to preventthe practice of any other legally recognized profession as governed byapplicable law. Nothing contained in this section shall under anycircumstances be construed as in anyway affecting the laws relating to thepractice, licensing, certification or registration of architects, engineersand land surveyors. An architect, engineer or land surveyor licensed,certified or registered to practice his or her profession or occupationpursuant to the provisions of any law to regulate the practice of suchprofession or occupation is exempt from licensing as a landscape architect,and nothing contained in this section shall under any circumstances beconstrued as in anyway precluding an architect or engineer from performingany of the services included within the definition of the term landscapearchitecture in section 327.600.

2. The licensure requirement shall be waived for those persons whohold a current registration by the division as a landscape architect on orbefore August 28, 2001, provided that application is made on a formprescribed by the board on or before December 31, 2002. The licensurerequirement shall be waived for those persons whose certificates ofregistration have expired on or before August 28, 2002, by being approvedby the board for reinstatement of expired registration and then makingapplication for licensure on a form prescribed by the board on or beforeDecember 31, 2002.