Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 203 - Interior Designer Advisory Committee to the Mississippi State Board of Architecture › Chapter 5 - Professional Code of Conduct › Rule 30-203-5.3 - Compliance with Laws

Current through June 25, 2024
A. A Certified
				Interior Designer shall not, in the conduct of providing certified interior
				design services, knowingly violate any state or federal criminal law.
Commentary - This rule is concerned with the
				  violation of a state or federal criminal law while in the conduct of certified
				  interior design. Thus, it does not cover criminal conduct entirely unrelated to
				  certify interior design. It is intended, however, that Rule 5.5(B) will cover
				  reprehensible conduct on the part of the Certified Interior Designer not
				  embraced by Rule 5.3(A). At present, there are several ways in which member
				  boards have dealt with this sort of rule. Some have disregarded the requirement
				  that the conduct be related to certified interior design and have provided for
				  discipline whenever the Certified Interior Designer engages in a crime
				  involving "moral turpitude." Some boards declined the use of that phrase, as
				  its meaning is by no means clear or uniformly understood. Some member boards
				  discipline for felony crimes and not for misdemeanor crimes. While the
				  distinction between the two was once the distinction between serious crimes and
				  technical crimes, that distinction has been blurred in recent years.
				  Accordingly, this rule specifies crimes in the course of the Certified Interior
				  Designer's work and gives to the board discretion to deal other reprehensible
				  conduct. Note that the rule is concerned only with violations of state or
				  federal criminal law. The rule does not pertain to violations of the laws of
				  other nations. Not only is it extremely difficult for a member board to obtain
				  suitable evidence
of the interpretation of foreign laws, it is
				  not unusual for such laws to be at odds with the laws, or, at least, the policy
				  of the United States of America. For example, the failure to follow the
				  dictates of the "anti-Israel boycott' laws found in most Arab jurisdictions is
				  a crime under the laws of most of those jurisdictions; while the anti-Israel
				  boycott is contrary to the policy of the government of the United States and
				  following its dictates is illegal under the laws of the United
				  States.
B. A
				Certified Interior Designer shall neither offer nor make any payments or gifts
				of substantial value to a government official (whether elected or appointed)
				with the intent of influencing the official's judgment in connection with a
				prospective or existing project in which the Certified Interior Designer is
				interested.
Commentary Rule 5.3(B) tracks a typical bribe
				  statute. It is covered by the general language of Rule 5.5(C), but it was the
				  Committee's view that Rule 5.3(B) should be explicitly set out in the Rules of
				  Conduct. Note that all of the rules under this section look to the conduct of
				  the Certified Interior Designer and not to whether or not the Certified
				  Interior Designer has actually been convicted under a criminal law. A Certified
				  Interior Designer who bribes a public official is subject to discipline by the
				  state certification board, whether or not the Certified Interior Designer has
				  been convicted under the state criminal procedure.
C. A Certified Interior Designer shall comply
				with the laws and regulations governing providing of interior design services
				in any United States jurisdiction. A Certified Interior Designer may be subject
				to disciplinary action if, based on grounds substantially similar to those
				which lead to disciplinary action in this jurisdiction, the Certified Interior
				Designer is disciplined in any United States jurisdiction.
Miss. Code Ann.§
										73-73-25(2)(h)