Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4703:1 - State Board of Landscape Architect Examiners › Chapter 4703:1-1 - Applications; Examinations › Section 4703:1-1-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) "Practice" -
			 ample proof of executive and professional responsibility shall be a part of the
			 evidence necessary to establish a record of professional practice. The
			 rendering of landscape architectural services as defined in section
			 4703.30
			 of the Revised Code, shall have been the chief occupation of the applicant if
			 said practice is used as a basis for claiming a record of landscape
			 architectural practice.
(B)
			 "Experience" and "training" - are interchangeable terms meaning full-time or
			 part-time employment in landscape architectural work. Employment may be under
			 the direct supervision of an individual registered or licensed to practice
			 landscape architecture under the laws of the state or country in which the work
			 is performed.
(C) "Principal" - a
			 landscape architect who is a sole proprietor of, officer of, legal partner,
			 director, designated landscape architect or shareholder in a firm, partnership,
			 association, corporation, sole proprietorship or government agency. A
			 "principal" is a member of a firm, sole proprietorship, or government agency
			 who is legally liable for the landscape architectural activities of the firm,
			 sole proprietorship or agency.
(D)
			 "Firm" - means any legally formed business organization providing landscape
			 architectural services and includes sole proprietorships, partnerships,
			 associations, corporations and limited liability companies.
(E)
			 "Government agency" - means an agency of federal, state, county or municipal
			 government.
(F) "Good moral
			 character" - means not having been convicted of a crime involving moral
			 turpitude, as that term is defined in section
			 4776.10
			 of the Revised Code, or having been convicted of a crime that has a direct
			 nexus to the ability to practice landscape architecture, not having made
			 misstatements or misrepresentation in connection with an application for
			 registration or certificate of authorization, not having willfully violated any
			 of the sections of the code of conduct required of certificate holders and set
			 forth in the statutes or rules, and not having practiced landscape architecture
			 without registration in violation of registration laws of the jurisdiction in
			 which the practice took place.
(G) "Direct
			 supervision" - means that degree of supervision by a person overseeing the work
			 of another,  where personal contact is routine, and whereby the
			 supervisor has both control over and detailed professional knowledge of the
			 work prepared under his/her supervision.
(H)
			 "Emeritus landscape architect" - an individual who has been registered to
			 practice landscape architecture in this state for at least ten years, is fully
			 retired from the practice of landscape architecture, and is at least sixty-five
			 years old. An emeritus landscape architect is exempt from the continuing
			 education and fee requirements of this chapter.