North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 8 - Architecture, Board of › Article 8-02 - Practice of Architecture › Chapter 8-02-01 - Purpose of Practice › Section 8-02-01-02 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The terms used throughout this article have the same meaning
				  as in North Dakota Century Code chapter
				  43-03, and as further provided
				  herein:
1. "Architect" means, in general, a person who has qualified
				  by skill, training, experience, and professional attitude to practice
				  architecture, and is registered as an architect. Specifically, architect means
				  an architect registered, and thereby entitled to practice architecture, in
				  North Dakota.
2. "Architectural commission" means the employment of
				  an architect to perform architectural services.
3. "Architectural
				  project" means a building, or group of buildings, or a portion thereof,
				  together with the site, the design, planning, or improvement of which requires
				  the services of an architect.
4. "Architectural services" means
				  those services normally and customarily performed by an architect
				  including:
a. Offering or solicitation of, and contracting for,
				  architectural services.
b. Consultation, investigation, analysis,
				  studies, reports, programming, designing, and planning of buildings and their
				  environments.
c. Sketches, drawings, specifications, and other
				  graphic instruments of service in connection with architectural
				  projects.
d. Observation of construction of architectural projects,
				  together with other duties of the architect normally associated with
				  administration of contracts for construction.
Architectural
				  services include the structural and environmental systems and equipment which
				  are essential to the proper functioning of an architectural project.
5. "Board" means the state board of architecture and
				  landscape architecture.
6. "Business corporation" means a
				  corporation which is chartered under statutes other than North Dakota Century
				  Code chapter
				  10-31.
7. "CLARB" means
				  the council of landscape architectural registration boards, of which the board
				  is a member.
8. "CLARB certificate" means certification by CLARB
				  that a landscape architect has met the minimum standards of education,
				  examination, experience, and professional conduct established by the council
				  and is thereby recommended for licensure in all member
				  jurisdictions.
9. "CLARB council record" means verified
				  documentation of an individual's education, experience, examination, licensure,
				  and professional conduct compiled by CLARB.
10. "CLARB standards of
				  eligibility" means standards for education, experience, examination, and
				  professional conduct that are approved by CLARB's member boards and recommended
				  to all member boards as the minimum standards for licensure.
11.
				  "CLARB written examination" means the licensure examination for landscape
				  architects prepared by CLARB.
12. "Exemptions" means persons to
				  whom the provisions of this title and North Dakota Century Code chapter
				  43-03 do not apply.
13.
				  "Landscape architect" means, in general, a person who has qualified by skill,
				  training, experience, and professional attitude to practice landscape
				  architecture and is registered as a landscape
				  architect.
Specifically, landscape architect means a landscape
				  architect registered and thereby entitled to practice landscape architecture in
				  North Dakota.
14. "Landscape architectural project" means the site, the
				  design, planning, or improvement of which requires the services of a landscape
				  architect.
15. "Landscape architecture" means a service in which
				  landscape architectural education, training, and experience and the application
				  of mathematical, physical, and social science principles are applied in
				  consultation, evaluation, planning, design, and administration of contracts
				  relative to projects principally directed at the functional and aesthetic use
				  and preservation of land. The term includes performing any professional service
				  in connection with the development of land areas where the dominant purpose of
				  the service is the preservation, enhancement, or determination of proper land
				  uses, natural land features, ground cover and planting, naturalistic and
				  aesthetic values, the settings, approaches, or environment for structures or
				  other improvements, and the consideration and determination of inherent
				  problems of the land relating to erosion, wear and tear, blight, and hazards.
				  This practice includes the location and arrangement of tangible objects and
				  features incidental and necessary to the purposes outlined but does not include
				  the design of structures or facilities with separate and self-contained
				  purposes, as ordinarily included in the practice of engineering or
				  architecture, or the preparation of boundary surveys or final land plats, as
				  ordinarily included in the practice of land surveying.
16. "NCARB"
				  means the national council of architectural registration boards, of which the
				  board is a member.
17. "Principal" means an architect or a
				  landscape architect who is either a sole proprietor, a general partner in a
				  partnership, or a director in a professional service corporation, and such firm
				  is engaged in the practice of architecture or landscape architecture.
				  "Principal" also means an architect or a landscape architect who shares in the
				  losses as well as the profits of the firm, and controls, alone or in concert
				  with other architects who are principals, the architectural practice of the
				  firm.
18. "Professional corporation, professional limited liability
				  company, or professional limited liability partnership" means an entity
				  chartered under North Dakota Century Code chapter
				  10-31 to engage in the practice of
				  architecture or landscape architecture.
19. "Reciprocity" means the
				  process by which the board grants registration without further examination to a
				  person who is registered to practice architecture or landscape architecture in
				  another state or jurisdiction, and who holds national council of architectural
				  registration board certification, or to a person who is registered to practice
				  landscape architecture in another state or jurisdiction and who holds council
				  of landscape architectural registration board certification.
20.
				  "Registration" means a license issued by the board to a person who has
				  qualified as an architect, or landscape architect, and is thereby entitled to
				  practice.
21. "Stamp" means architectural or landscape
				  architectural stamp that may also be referred to as a seal, emboss,
				  electronic-generated seal, or indicia.
General Authority:
NDCC
					 43-03-08
Law Implemented:
NDCC
					 43-03-08