Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 420 - Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects › Chapter 00 - Landscape Architects › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 1 - Rules and Regulations for Landscape Architects › Section 420-RICR-00-00-1.4 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. "Allied professional" means an individual
				 professional registered in any United States jurisdiction as an architect,
				 professional engineer or professional land surveyor.
B. "ASLA" means the American Society of
				 Landscape Architects.
C. "Board"
				 means the Rhode Island State Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects,
				 established pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-51 to regulate the practice of
				 landscape architecture in the State of Rhode Island.
D. "Certificate of Registration" or "License"
				 means the landscape architecture license and/or registration issued by the
				 Board.
E. "CLARB" means the Council
				 of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards.
F. "CLARB council record" or "CLARB record"
				 means a verified history of your education, experience, examination, licensure
				 history and professional references to be used to apply for examination,
				 licensure and certification.
G.
				 "CLARB certification" means the industry-recognized distinction that signifies
				 that a landscape architect has met the professional standards established by
				 CLARB and carries CLARB's recommendation that the individual be granted
				 licensure without further review.
H. "COA" means the Certificate of
				 Authorization for a Firm.
I.
				 "Department" means the Rhode Island Department of Business
				 Regulation.
J. "Direct control and
				 personal supervision" means the supervision of, knowledge of and acceptance of
				 responsibility for another's landscape architecture work by a registered
				 Landscape Architect, in which the supervisor is directly involved in all
				 practice-related judgements affecting public health, safety and
				 welfare.
K. "Director" means the
				 Director of the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation or their
				 designee.
L. "Firm" means a sole
				 proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, corporation, or
				 limited liability company that practices or offers to practice landscape
				 architecture as described by R.I. Gen. Laws §
										5-51-13.
M. "L.A.R.E." means the Landscape
				 Architecture Registration Examination prepared and distributed by CLARB.
N. "Landscape architect" is
				 defined in R.I. Gen. Laws §
										5-51-1(3).
O. "Landscape architecture" is defined in
				 R.I. Gen. Laws §
										5-51-1(4).
P.
				 "Registrant" means any person holding a certificate of registration or license
				 issued by the Board pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-51.
Q. "Responsible charge" means a registered
				 Landscape Architect who exerts direct control and personal supervision over all
				 activities associated with and defined as landscape architecture. A landscape
				 architect in responsible charge must exert and have authority to supervise all
				 such regulated activities by any firm with whom he or she is
				 employed.
R. "Seal" means an
				 embossed circular seal or rubber stamp of a design and size approved by the
				 Board. It shall contain the name of the landscape architect, the registration
				 number, the word "Registered" above the State's emblem, and the words
				 "Landscape Architect" below the registration number.
S. "UNE" means the Uniform National
				 Examination previously prepared and distributed by CLARB.