Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 55 - The Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Commercial Interior Designers of Oklahoma › Chapter 10 - Licensure and Practice of Architects, Landscape Architects and Registration of Commercial Interior Designers › Subchapter 11 - Rules of Professional Conduct › Section 55:10-11-7 - Professional conduct

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) An Architect,
				Landscape Architect, Registered Commercial Interior Designer, or Entity shall
				preserve the confidences of the client or employer.
(b) Each office maintained for the
				preparation of drawings, specification, reports or other professional work
				shall have a Licensee or Registrant in that office having Responsible Control
				of the work.
(c) A Licensee or
				Registrant shall not sign or seal drawings, specifications, reports or other
				professional work for which they do not have Responsible Control. Prototypical
				plans are an exception to the rule as noted in OAC
				55:10-11-8(e)(f).
(d) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity shall
				neither offer nor make any gifts, other than gifts of nominal value including,
				for example, reasonable entertainment and hospitality, with the intent of
				influencing the judgment of an existing or prospective client in connection
				with a project in which the Licensee, Registrant, or Entity is interested.
				Intent of influence means influence, direct or indirect, which induces or tends
				to induce consideration or action with respect to any prospective work on any
				basis other than the merits of the matter.
(e) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity shall
				not engage directly or indirectly with or as an agent or representative to
				solicit work on their behalf whose compensation is contingent, in whole or in
				part, upon obtaining professional work for the Entity, Architect, Landscape
				Architect, or Registered Commercial Interior Designer.
(f) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity shall
				not make false statements about the professional work, or maliciously injure or
				attempt to injure the prospects, practice or employment position of others.
(g) A Licensee, Registrant, or
				Entity shall not furnish limited services in such a manner as to enable owners,
				draftsmen, or others to evade public health and safety requirements.
(h) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity
				provides a service to the client, as well as a product and/or drawings and as
				such is only responsible for the design of the facility represented by the
				products and/or drawings they completed, signed, sealed and dated for a
				specific client and location. Should the client or any other individual modify
				or change locations of the facility or make changes to the design without the
				authorization of the Licensee or Registrant, the Licensee or Registrant is only
				responsible and liable for the project as they signed, sealed and dated it and
				the site at the original location. A Licensee or Registrant is allowed to
				review and adapt documents already sealed by the original Licensee or
				Registrant when modifying the plan and/or bringing the plan up to the current
				code requirements at the same location as the original site. In this case, the
				Licensee or Registrant is required to sign, seal and date only the
				modifications to the original documents and shall only be responsible for their
				new modifications.
(i) Nothing
				contained in 55:10-11-7(h) shall apply to prototype plans, where the Licensee
				is allowed to review and adapt a prototypical technical submission, making
				changes to adapt in whole or in part to a different location and/or bring the
				plan up to the current code requirements. In this case, the Licensee is
				required to sign, seal and date the adapted, integrated documents and the
				licensee assumes full responsibility for the documents, in their entirety, as
				if fully prepared by or under the licensed architect's responsible
				control.
Amended at 16 Ok Reg
				  1333, eff 5-27-99; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2555, eff 7-15-02; Amended at 24 Ok Reg
				  815, eff 5-11-07; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 815, eff 5-11-07; Amended at 26 Ok Reg
				  771, eff 4-27-09; Amended at 29 Ok Reg 921, eff
				  7-1-12