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Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 5 - Designer Permit › Section A-E 5.01 - Authority and purpose

Current through June 24, 2024
The rules in this chapter are adopted under authority in ss.
				15.08(5)
				(b),
				227.11
				and
				443.07,
				Stats. The purpose of rules in this chapter is to interpret basic experience
				and examination requirements for obtaining a designer permit as specified in s.
				443.07,
				Stats.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 5 - Designer Permit › Section A-E 5.02 - General experience requirement (Repealed)

Current through June 24, 2024
Applications are available on the website at dsps.wi.gov or
				  by calling (608) 266 - 2112.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 5 - Designer Permit › Section A-E 5.03 - General experience requirement

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) GENERAL. An
			 applicant's experience shall demonstrate that the applicant has a working
			 knowledge of all of the following:
(a) Basic
			 mathematics, physics and mechanics.
(b) Materials and structures.
(c) Administrative codes and other relevant
			 Wisconsin law.
(d) Graphic
			 techniques, including drafting and sketching.
(e) All topics under s. A-E 5.04(1) (b) 1. to
			 5., (c) 1. and 2., (d) 1. to 7., (e) 1. and 2., or (f) 1. to 5., as applicable,
			 in the field or subfield for which the applicant has
			 applied.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 5 - Designer Permit › Section A-E 5.04 - Examination

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) WRITTEN EXAMINATION FOR DESIGNER OF
			 ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; SCOPE OF EXAMINATION.
(a) The written examination in each field and
			 subfield shall include questions and problems applying to the following basic
			 content areas:
1. Basic mathematics, physics
			 and mechanics.
2. Materials and
			 structures.
3. Graphic techniques,
			 including drafting and sketching, reading and interpreting blueprints and
			 preparing specifications.
4.
			 Administrative code and other relevant Wisconsin laws.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 5 - Designer Permit › Section A-E 5.05 - Application contents

Current through June 24, 2024
Except as provided in s. A-E 2.06 (2), an application shall
				include all of the following:
(1)
			 Transcripts or apprenticeship records verifying the applicant's education and
			 training.
(2) References from 3
			 individuals who have personal knowledge of the applicant's work involving the
			 preparation of plans and specifications, one of whom shall be a registered
			 architect, professional engineer or designer.
(3) A chronological history of the
			 applicant's employment.
(4) Any
			 additional data, exhibits or references showing the extent and quality of the
			 applicant's technological experience that may be required by the designer
			 section.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 5 - Designer Permit › Section A-E 5.06 - Designer permit limitation

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Design services
			 which may be performed by designers are the preparation of plans and
			 specifications, consultation, investigation, and evaluation in connection with
			 the preparation of plans and specifications in those fields and subfields set
			 forth in sub. (2).
(2) Permits for
			 the design of engineering systems shall be issued in the following fields and
			 subfields:
(a) The field of heating,
			 ventilation and air conditioning systems.
(b) The field of plumbing systems.
(c) The subfield of private onsite wastewater
			 treatment systems.
(d) The field of
			 electrical systems.
(e) The field
			 of fire protection systems.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 6 - Professional Land Surveyor Licensure › Section A-E 6.01 - Authority and purpose

Current through June 24, 2024
The rules in this chapter are adopted under authority in ss.
				15.08(5)
				(b),
				227.11,
				443.01(6s),
				and
				443.06,
				Stats. The purpose of rules in this chapter is to interpret basic education,
				experience and examination requirements for licensure as a professional land
				surveyor as specified in s.
				443.06,
				Stats.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 6 - Professional Land Surveyor Licensure › Section A-E 6.02 - Licensure requirements for professional land surveyors

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)
			 Except as provided in s. A-E 2.06 (2), an applicant for professional land
			 surveyor licensure, in accordance with s. 443.06(2), Stats., shall complete
			 all of the following:
(a) Meet at least one of
			 the following education and experience requirements:
1. Completion of a bachelor's degree in a
			 course in the practice of professional land surveying or a related field that
			 is approved by the professional land surveying section and the completion of at
			 least 2 years of approved practice in professional land surveying.
2. Completion of an associate degree of not
			 less than 2 years duration in a course in the practice of professional land
			 surveying or a related field of study that is approved by the professional land
			 surveying section and the completion of at least 4 years of approved practice
			 in professional land surveying.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 6 - Professional Land Surveyor Licensure › Section A-E 6.03 - Land surveying experience

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) To qualify as
			 "practice in professional land surveying work of a satisfactory character which
			 indicates that the applicant is competent to be placed in responsible charge of
			 such work" under s.
			 443.06,
			 Stats., the experience of an applicant must satisfy all of the following:
(a) At least two-thirds of an applicant's
			 experience shall be acquired in all of the following:
1. Locating land boundaries and land boundary
			 corners including all of the following services:
a. Researching public and private records and
			 interpreting legal descriptions, deeds, and survey maps.
b. Locating lost and obliterated corners and
			 United States public land survey system corners and reestablishing or
			 perpetuating monuments of the corners.
c. Establishing, reestablishing and
			 perpetuating survey monuments.
d.
			 Subdividing sections.
e.
			 Establishing or retracing property lines to determine length and
			 bearing.
f. Reestablishing
			 obliterated property lines.
g.
			 Preparing descriptions of real property from data acquired by field
			 measurements and other evidence of property location.
h. Conducting resurveys.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 6 - Professional Land Surveyor Licensure › Section A-E 6.04 - Educational requirements for professional land surveyors

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) To meet the
			 educational requirements of s.
			 443.06(2)
			 (bm), Stats., an applicant for licensure as a
			 land surveyor shall have satisfactorily completed at least 60 semester credits
			 in land surveying curriculum or in a related field as approved by the
			 professional land surveyor section including no less than 12 semester credits
			 in land surveying which shall be in the following categories of study:
(a) No less than 8 of the 12 credits may be
			 in courses concentrating on the legal principles of professional land surveying
			 and the technical aspects of professional land surveying. These courses shall
			 include areas of study such as research of public and private records,
			 principles of evidence and the interpretation of written documents used in
			 boundary determination, the study of the legal elements of professional land
			 surveying including those involving resurveys, boundary disputes, defective
			 descriptions, riparian rights and adverse possession, the study of the
			 professional and judicial functions of a professional land surveyor, the study
			 of surveying methods for measuring distance and angular values, note keeping,
			 computation and writing descriptions and the study of the Wisconsin Statutes
			 and local ordinances relating to the preparation of subdivision maps and
			 plats.
(b) No more than 4 credits
			 may be in courses related to professional land surveying such as "engineering
			 surveying," "municipal surveying," "route surveying," "highway surveying,"
			 "topographic surveying," "geodetic surveying," "photogrammetry," "cartography,"
			 "construction surveying," "air photo interpretation," "artillery surveying,"
			 "geographic information systems," "land information systems" and "remote
			 sensing systems."
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 6 - Professional Land Surveyor Licensure › Section A-E 6.05 - Examination

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) LAND SURVEYOR EXAMINATION REQUIRED.
			 Applicants for licensure as a professional land surveyor shall take and pass 3
			 examinations. The examinations include the national fundamentals of surveying
			 examination, the national principles and practice of surveying examination, and
			 the state jurisdictional examination, which is relative to specific practice in
			 this state. Each of the 3 required examinations is scored separately.
(2) SCOPE OF WRITTEN EXAMINATION.
(a) The fundamentals of land surveying
			 examination requires an understanding of mathematics, physics, surveying
			 methods for measuring horizontal, vertical and angular values, topographic and
			 photogrammetric mapping, notekeeping, property surveys, computations,
			 descriptions and plats.
(b) The
			 national principles and practice examination and the state jurisdictional
			 examination require an ability to apply principles and judgment to problems
			 involving the U.S. system of public land surveys, Wisconsin plane coordinate
			 surveys, the relocation of lost and obliterated corners, the legal essentials
			 of resurveys, disputed boundaries, defective deed descriptions, riparian
			 rights, adverse possession, the Wisconsin statutes relating to land surveying
			 including the preparation and filing of plats, the writing and interpreting of
			 land descriptions, the technical essentials of professional land surveying and
			 subdivision of lands including practical problems requiring a knowledge of the
			 basic theory and fundamental concepts of field astronomy, geometry of curves,
			 topography and photogrammetry.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 6 - Professional Land Surveyor Licensure › Section A-E 6.06 - Application for licensure as a professional land surveyor

Current through June 24, 2024
An application for licensure shall include all of the
				following:
(1) Transcripts verifying
			 the applicant's education.
(1g)
			 Verification of successful completion of all examinations required under s. A-E
			 6.05.
(1r) A completed application
			 form.
(2) References from at least
			 5 individuals having personal knowledge of the applicant's experience in land
			 surveying, 3 of whom are professional land surveyors.
(3) A chronological history of the
			 applicant's employment.
(4) Any
			 additional data, exhibits or references indicating the extent and quality of
			 the applicant's experience that the professional land surveyor section may
			 require.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 6 - Professional Land Surveyor Licensure › Section A-E 6.07 - Application for reciprocity

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) An application
			 for licensure by reciprocity shall include all of the following:
(a) A completed reciprocity application
			 form.
(b) The fees authorized in s.
			 440.05(1),
			 Stats.
(c) Notice of whether the
			 applicant has been disciplined in any state in which the applicant has held a
			 license and any pending complaints against the applicant or investigations of
			 the applicant relating to the practice of professional land
			 surveying.
(d) A certified
			 transcript of qualifying coursework completed by the applicant.
(e) Verification of the applicant's licensure
			 submitted directly to the professional land surveyor section by all states in
			 which the applicant has ever held a license.
(f) Verification of successful completion of
			 all examinations required under s. A-E 6.05.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.01 - Scope

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) The minimum standards of this chapter
			 apply to any property survey performed by professional land surveyors in this
			 state, except where otherwise provided in this chapter.
(2) The minimum accuracies in s. A-E 7.06
			 apply to any property survey performed by professional land surveyors in this
			 state.
(3) If other standards for
			 property surveys are prescribed by statute, administrative rule, or ordinance,
			 and the standards are more restrictive than those in this chapter, the more
			 restrictive standards govern.
(4)
			 Except with regard to a U.S. public land survey monument record or addendum and
			 a map of work performed, the professional land surveyor and client may enter
			 into a written agreement, signed by both parties, to exclude land surveying
			 work from the requirements of ss. A-E 7.03(2), 7.05(5) and (7m), and 7.07,
			 where all of the following are performed:
(a)
			 The professional land surveyor certifies on the face of the map the existence
			 of the agreement.
(b) The map
			 includes a note which states that an agreement to exclude work from the
			 requirements of this chapter has been made and a list of those
			 exclusions.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter:
(1m) " Property survey" means an activity
			 performed in the practice of professional land surveying, as defined in s.
			 443.01(6s),
			 Stats., or the result of such activity.
(3) "Survey report" means a property survey
			 that may be prepared in compliance with s. A-E 7.025 when there is an existing
			 map recorded or filed and no new monuments are established in the
			 survey.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.025 - Survey report, requirements

Current through June 24, 2024
A survey report shall include the purpose of the survey,
				information concerning the documents that were examined for the survey, and the
				measurements that were made to verify the locations of the monuments found. The
				survey report shall be in compliance with all sections of this chapter and
				shall be filed as required under s.
				59.45(1),
				Stats., on media accepted by the county.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.03 - Boundary location

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Every property survey shall be made in
			 accordance with the records of the register of deeds as nearly as practicable.
			 The professional land surveyor shall acquire data necessary to retrace record
			 title boundaries such as U.S. Public Land Survey Monument Records, deeds,
			 surveys, maps, certificates of title, highway, and center line or right-of-way
			 lines, and other boundary line locations. The professional land surveyor shall
			 make field measurements necessary for the location of the parcel and shall
			 analyze the data and make a careful determination of the position of the
			 boundaries of the parcel being surveyed.
(2) The professional land surveyor shall set
			 monuments marking the corners of the parcel unless monuments already exist at
			 the corners.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.04 - Descriptions

Current through June 24, 2024
Descriptions defining land boundaries created by a
				professional land surveyor for conveyance or to more accurately delineate land
				boundaries, or for other purposes shall be complete, providing unequivocal
				identification of lines or boundaries. The description shall contain necessary
				references to adjoiners together with data and dimensions sufficient to enable
				the description to be mapped and retraced and shall describe the land surveyed
				by government lot, recorded private claim, quarter-quarter section, section,
				township, range, and county. The forms of descriptions of property shall be one
				of the following:
(1) By metes and
			 bounds commencing with a monument at a section corner or quarter section corner
			 of the quarter section in which that land is located or a monument established
			 by the U.S. Public Land Survey that it is not the center of the section, or
			 commencing with a monument at the end of a boundary line of a recorded private
			 claim or federal reservation in which the land is located. Descriptions shall
			 meet the requirements in s. A-E 7.06.
(2) By land boundaries being surveyed as a
			 platted lot or outlot in a recorded subdivision or recorded addition to a
			 recorded subdivision, the lots or outlots in that plat shall be described by
			 the name of the plat and the lot or outlot and the block in the plat for all
			 purposes.
(3) By land boundaries
			 being surveyed as an existing lot, outlot or parcel, on a recorded certified
			 survey map, the property survey shall be described by lot, outlot or parcel
			 number and certified map number for all purposes.
(4) By the parcel described as an aliquot
			 part of a section from the U.S. Public Land Survey.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.06 - Relative positional accuracy measurements

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Measurements
			 shall be made with instruments and methods capable of attaining the relative
			 positional accuracy in accordance with this section.
(1m) Relative positional accuracy shall be
			 the value expressed in feet that represents the uncertainty between points of
			 the boundary of the parcel being surveyed due to random errors in measurements
			 at a 95 percent confidence level.
(3) The maximum allowable deviation in
			 relative positional accuracy between any 2 adjacent property corners may not
			 exceed plus or minus 0.13 foot plus 100 parts per million.
(4) Any closed traverse depicted on a
			 property survey map shall have a latitude and departure closure ratio of less
			 than 1 in 3,000.
(5) Bearings or
			 angles on any property survey map shall be shown to at least the nearest 30
			 seconds. Distances shall be shown to the nearest 1/100th foot.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.07 - Monuments

Current through June 24, 2024
The type and position of monuments to be set on any property
				survey shall be according to s.
				236.15(1),
				Stats., unless determined by the nature of the property survey, the permanency
				required, the nature of the terrain, the cadastral features involved, and the
				availability of material. Coordinate values are not acceptable in lieu of
				monuments.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 7 - Minimum Standards For Property Surveys › Section A-E 7.08 - U.S. public land survey monument recor

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) WHEN MONUMENT
			 RECORD REQUIRED. A U.S. public land survey monument record or U.S. public land
			 survey monument record addendum shall be prepared and filed with the county
			 survey records as part of any land survey within 60 days if a U.S. public land
			 survey corner has been reestablished, perpetuated, or restored and a monument
			 set or reset, and when any of the following situations arise:
(a) There is no U.S. public land survey
			 monument record for the corner on file in the office of the county surveyor or
			 the county office deemed appropriate to receive and retain property survey
			 records.
(b) The professional land
			 surveyor who performs the property survey accepts a location for the U.S.
			 public land survey corner which differs from that shown on a U.S. public land
			 survey monument record filed in the office of the county surveyor or the county
			 office deemed appropriate to receive and retain property survey
			 records.
(c) The U.S. public land
			 survey monument referenced in an existing U.S. public land survey monument
			 record that has been destroyed or disturbed.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.01 - Authority

Current through June 24, 2024
The rules of conduct in this chapter are adopted under
				authority of ss.
				15.08(5)
				(b),
				227.11
				and ch. 443, Stats.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.02 - Intent

Current through June 24, 2024
The intent of the examining board in adopting this chapter is
				to establish rules of professional conduct for the professions of architecture,
				landscape architecture, professional engineering, designing and professional
				land surveying. A violation of any standard specified in this chapter may
				result in disciplinary action under ss.
				443.11
				to
				443.13,
				Stats.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In ch. 443, Stats., and chs. A-E 1 to 9:
(1)"Gross negligence in the practice of
			 architecture, landscape architecture, professional engineering, designing or
			 professional land surveying" means the performance of professional services by
			 an architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer or
			 professional land surveyor which does not comply with an acceptable standard of
			 practice that has a significant relationship to the protection of health,
			 safety or public welfare and is performed in a manner indicating that the
			 professional knew or should have known, but acted with indifference to or
			 disregard of, the accepted standard of practice.
(2)"Incompetency in the practice of
			 architecture, landscape architecture, professional engineering, designing or
			 land surveying" means conduct which demonstrates any of the following:
(a) Lack of ability or fitness to discharge
			 the duty owed by an architect, landscape architect, professional engineer,
			 designer or land surveyor to a client or employer or to the public.
(b) Lack of knowledge of the fundamental
			 principles of the profession or an inability to apply fundamental principles of
			 the profession.
(c) Failure to
			 maintain competency in the current practices and methods applicable to the
			 profession.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.04 - Offers to perform services shall be truthful

Current through June 24, 2024
When offering to perform professional services, an architect,
				landscape architect, professional engineer, designer or professional land
				surveyor:
(1) Shall accurately and
			 truthfully represent to a prospective client or employer the capabilities and
			 qualifications which the registrant or licensee has to perform the services to
			 be rendered.
(2) Shall represent
			 the costs and completion times of a proposed project to a client or prospective
			 client as accurately and truthfully as is reasonably possible.
(3) May not offer to perform, nor perform,
			 services which the registrant or licensee is not qualified to perform by
			 education or experience without retaining the services of another who is
			 qualified.
(4) May not use
			 advertising or publicity which is fraudulent or deceptive.
(5) May not misrepresent the extent to which
			 the performance of services will involve a partnership or association with
			 another registrant or licensee or misrepresent the identity of a registrant or
			 licensee with whom a partnership or association will be engaged in for the
			 performance of services.
(6) May
			 not collect a fee for recommending the services of another unless written
			 notice is first given to all parties concerned.
(7) May not practice under a firm name that
			 misrepresents the identity of those practicing in the firm or misrepresents the
			 type of services which the individuals, firm or partnership is authorized and
			 qualified to perform.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.05 - Conflicts of interest

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)An architect, landscape architect,
			 professional engineer, designer or professional land surveyor:
(a) Shall avoid conflicts of interest. If an
			 unavoidable conflict of interest arises, the registrant or licensee shall
			 immediately inform the client or employer of all the circumstances which may
			 interfere with or impair the registrant's or licensee's obligation to provide
			 professional services. Under these circumstances a registrant or licensee may
			 not proceed to provide professional services without the full approval and
			 consent of the client or employer.
(b) Shall notify the employer or client and
			 withdraw from employment at any time if it becomes apparent that it is not
			 possible to faithfully discharge the responsibilities and duties owed to the
			 client or employer.
(c) May not
			 agree to perform professional services for a client or employer if the
			 registrant or licensee has a significant financial or other interest which
			 would impair or interfere with the registrant's or licensee's responsibility to
			 faithfully discharge professional services on behalf of the client or
			 employer.
(d) May not accept
			 payment from any party other than a client or employer for a particular project
			 or may not have any direct or indirect financial interest in a service or phase
			 of a service to be provided as part of a project unless the employer or client
			 approves.
(e) May not solicit or
			 accept anything of value from material or equipment suppliers in return for
			 specifying or endorsing a product.
(f) May not violate the confidences of a
			 client or employer, except as otherwise required by rules in this
			 chapter.
(g) May not perform
			 services for a client or employer while a full-time employee of another
			 employer without notifying all parties concerned.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.06 - Professional obligations

Current through June 24, 2024
An architect, landscape architect, professional engineer,
				designer or professional land surveyor:
(1)Shall use reasonable care and competence
			 in providing professional services.
(2)May not evade the professional or
			 contractual responsibility which the registrant or licensee has to a client or
			 employer.
(3)May not enter into an
			 agreement which provides that a person not legally and actually qualified to
			 perform professional services has control over the registrant's or licensee's
			 judgment as related to public health, safety or welfare.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.07 - Unauthorized practice

Current through June 24, 2024
An architect, landscape architect, professional engineer,
				designer, or professional land surveyor:
(1)Shall assist in enforcing laws which
			 prohibit the unlicensed practice of architecture, landscape architecture,
			 professional engineering, designing, and professional land surveying by
			 reporting violations to the board.
(2)May not delegate professional
			 responsibility to unlicensed persons and may not otherwise aid or abet the
			 unlicensed practice of architecture, landscape architecture, professional
			 engineering, designing, or professional land surveying.
Sections
				  443.02(2)
				  and (3), Stats., were amended by 2009 Wis.
				  Act 123 to include landscape architects within their scopes. Section A-E 8.07
				  (intro.) will be modified in future rule-making by the Board.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.08 - Maintenance of professional standards

Current through June 24, 2024
An architect, landscape architect, professional engineer,
				designer or professional land surveyor:
(1)Shall furnish the board with information
			 indicating that any person or firm has violated provisions in ch. 443, Stats.,
			 rules in this chapter or other legal standards applicable to the
			 profession.
(2)May not discuss with
			 any individual board member any disciplinary matter under investigation or in
			 hearing.
(3)Shall respond in a
			 timely manner to a request by the board, a section of the board or the
			 department for information in conjunction with an investigation of a complaint
			 filed against a registrant or licensee. There is a rebuttable presumption that
			 a registrant or licensee who takes longer than 30 days to respond to a request
			 for information has not acted in a timely manner.
(4)Shall notify the department in writing if
			 the registrant or licensee has been disciplined for unprofessional conduct in
			 other states where the registrant or licensee holds a credential or has
			 violated federal or state laws, local ordinances or administrative rules, not
			 otherwise reportable under s.
			 SPS
			 4.09(2), which are related to the
			 practice of an architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer
			 or professional land surveyor. The notification shall be submitted within 48
			 hours of the disciplinary finding or violation of law and shall include copies
			 of the findings, judgments and orders so that the department may determine
			 whether the circumstances are substantially related to the practice of the
			 registrant or licensee.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.09 - Adherence to statutes and rules

Current through June 24, 2024
An architect, landscape architect, professional engineer,
				designer or professional land surveyor:
(1)Shall comply with the requirements in ch.
			 443, Stats., rules in this chapter and all other federal, state and local codes
			 which relate to the practice of architecture, landscape architecture,
			 professional engineering, designing and professional land surveying.
(2)May not engage in conduct that may
			 adversely affect his or her fitness to practice architecture, landscape
			 architecture, professional engineering, designing or professional land
			 surveying.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.10 - Plan stamping

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)No architect, landscape architect,
			 professional engineer or designer may sign, seal or stamp any plans, drawings,
			 documents, specifications or reports for architectural, landscape
			 architectural, professional engineering or design practice which are not
			 prepared by the registrant or under his or her personal direction and
			 control.
(2)No professional land
			 surveyor may sign, seal or stamp any maps, plats, charts, or reports for
			 professional land surveying practice which are not prepared by the professional
			 land surveyor or under his or her personal direction and control.
(3)No architect, landscape architect,
			 professional engineer, designer or professional land surveyor shall allow work
			 performed by him or her or under his or her personal direction and control to
			 be signed, sealed or stamped by another except that an architect, landscape
			 architect, professional engineer, designer or professional land surveyor
			 working under the personal direction and control of another registrant or
			 licensee may allow that registrant or licensee to sign and seal or stamp the
			 work.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 8 - Professional Conduct › Section A-E 8.11 - Suspension of registration; effect

Current through June 24, 2024
Any registrant or licensee whose registration or license has
				been suspended is prohibited during the term of the suspension from engaging in
				any of the following:
(1)Offering to
			 perform any service which requires registration or licensure.
(2)Performing any professional service which
			 requires registration or licensure.
(3)Signing or sealing plans, specifications,
			 reports, maps, plats, or charts prepared for the practice of architecture,
			 landscape architecture, professional engineering, designing or professional
			 land surveying.
(4)Entering into
			 contracts the performance of which require registration or licensure.
(5)Engaging in responsible supervision of
			 construction as defined in s.
			 443.01(8),
			 Stats.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 9 - Landscape Architect Registration › Section A-E 9.015 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
			 "Allied profession" means engineering or architecture.
(2) "Allied professional" means a licensed
			 professional engineer or architect.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 9 - Landscape Architect Registration › Section A-E 9.01 - Authority and purpose

Current through June 24, 2024
The rules in this chapter are adopted under authority in ss.
				15.08(5)
				(b),
				227.11,
				443.035,
				443.09
				and
				443.10,
				Stats. The purpose of the rules in this chapter is to interpret basic
				education, experience and examination requirements for registration as a
				landscape architect as specified in ss.
				443.035,
				443.09
				and
				443.10,
				Stats.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 9 - Landscape Architect Registration › Section A-E 9.02 - Requirements for registration as a landscape architect

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Except as provided in s. A-E 2.06 (2), an
			 applicant for registration as a landscape architect shall submit documentary
			 evidence of having met the requirements under s. 443.035, Stats.
(2) An applicant who does not comply with a
			 request for information related to an application within one year from the date
			 of the request shall file a new application and fee.
Applications are available on the website at dsps.wi.gov or
				  by calling (608) 266 - 2112.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 9 - Landscape Architect Registration › Section A-E 9.03 - Experience as a landscape architect

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)
(a) To qualify as satisfactory experience in
			 landscape architecture for the purposes of s.
			 443.035,
			 Stats., an applicant's experience shall include the application of accepted
			 principles in the practice of landscape architecture and shall demonstrate an
			 applicant's progressive development of competence to practice landscape
			 architecture. The experience shall be acquired in the areas of the practice of
			 landscape architecture listed in sub. (2) (a) to (g), or in other areas of the
			 practice of landscape architecture which in the opinion of the landscape
			 architect section provide the applicant with a knowledge of principles and data
			 related to the practice of landscape architecture at least equivalent to that
			 which would be acquired by experience in the areas of practice listed.
			 Experience in every listed area is not required.
(b) To qualify as satisfactory experience in
			 landscape architecture for the purposes of s.
			 443.035(1)
			 (a), Stats., an applicant's experience shall
			 be obtained subsequent to completion of the education
			 requirements.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 9 - Landscape Architect Registration › Section A-E 9.04 - Education

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) In satisfaction of the education
			 requirement under s.
			 443.035(1)
			 (a), Stats., the landscape architect section
			 accepts bachelor's or master's degrees in landscape architecture granted by a
			 college or university accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation
			 Board of the American Society of Landscape Architects or a degree determined by
			 the landscape architect section to be equivalent. If the degree is from an
			 international educational institution, the applicant shall provide an official
			 evaluation by a transcript evaluation service acceptable to the landscape
			 architect section which shows that the degree is equivalent to a bachelor's
			 degree in landscape architecture or a master's degree in landscape architecture
			 granted by a college or university accredited by the Landscape Architecture
			 Accreditation Board of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
(2) In satisfaction of the education
			 requirement under s.
			 443.035(1)
			 (b), Stats., the landscape architect section
			 accepts coursework in landscape architecture completed at a college or
			 university accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board of the
			 American Society of Landscape Architects, or other equivalent college level
			 coursework in landscape architecture or in an area related to landscape
			 architecture, completed at a college or university accredited by a regional
			 accrediting agency approved by the state board of education in the state in
			 which the college or university is located.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 9 - Landscape Architect Registration › Section A-E 9.05 - Examination requirement

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT REGISTRATION
			 EXAMINATION.
An applicant for initial registration as a landscape
			 architect shall pass, in accordance with sub. (2), the Landscape Architect
			 Registration Examination, LARE, prepared by the Council of Landscape
			 Architectural Registration Boards, or an equivalent examination as determined
			 by the landscape architect section.
(2) MINIMUM COMPETENCY. The passing scores
			 for an examination under sub. (1) for each section or in combination as
			 appropriate shall be set by the landscape architect section to represent the
			 minimum competency required to protect public health and safety.
(7) REEXAMINATION. In accordance with s.
			 443.09(5),
			 Stats., an applicant failing any part of an examination may be reexamined on
			 the part or parts failed, except that after failure of 3 reexaminations, the
			 landscape architect section shall require a one-year waiting period before
			 further reexamination on the part or parts failed.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 9 - Landscape Architect Registration › Section A-E 9.06 - Application contents

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Official transcripts of graduate and
			 undergraduate training, properly attested to by the degree granting institution
			 and submitted by the institution directly to the board.
(2) A chronological history of the
			 applicant's employment or other qualifying experience.
(3) References from at least 5 individuals, 3
			 of whom have personal knowledge of the applicant's experience in landscape
			 architecture and are engaged in the practice of landscape architecture. If 3
			 references from individuals who are engaged in the practice of landscape
			 architecture are not available, the section may accept references from
			 individuals actively engaged in the practice of an allied profession. One of
			 the 3 references having personal knowledge of the applicant's experience in
			 landscape architecture shall be licensed or registered as a landscape architect
			 by the licensing authority of some licensing jurisdiction in the United States
			 or Canada.
(4) The fee required
			 under s.
			 440.05(1),
			 Stats.
(5) For applicants
			 previously licensed in another state, territory or possession of the United
			 States or in another country, verification of the applicant's licensure in the
			 licensing jurisdiction of original licensure or, if the applicant has permitted
			 his or her registration in the jurisdiction of original licensure to lapse,
			 verification of licensure in the licensing jurisdiction where the applicant is
			 currently licensed and where the applicant was last engaged in the practice of
			 landscape architecture.
(6) For
			 applicants who have a pending criminal charge or have been convicted of a
			 crime, all related information necessary for the board to determine whether the
			 circumstances of the pending criminal charge or criminal conviction are
			 substantially related to the circumstances of the practice of landscape
			 architecture.
(7) Any additional
			 data, exhibits or references showing the extent and quality of the applicant's
			 experience that may be required by the landscape architect section.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 10 - Continuing Education For Professional Land Surveyors › Section A-E 10.01 - Authority and purpose

Current through June 24, 2024
The rules in this chapter are adopted under the authority in
				ss.
				15.08(5)
				(b),
				227.11(2)
				and
				443.015,
				Stats., and govern biennial continuing education of professional land
				surveyors.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Registered Interior Designers › Chapter A-E 10 - Continuing Education For Professional Land Surveyors › Section A-E 10.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(1)"Biennium" means a 2-year period beginning
			 February 1 of each even-numbered year.
(2)"Continuing education" means the planned,
			 professional development activities designed to contribute to the advancement,
			 extension and enhancement of the professional skills and scientific knowledge
			 of the licensee in the practice of professional land surveying and for
			 improvement of the safety and welfare of the public.
(3)"Professional development activities"
			 means organized educational programs on topics related to the practice or
			 theory of professional land surveying and which foster the enhancement of
			 general or specialized knowledge, practice and values of professional land
			 surveying.
(4)"Professional
			 development hour" or "PDH", unless specified otherwise, means 50 minutes of
			 instruction or participation spent by the licensee in actual attendance or
			 completion of an approved educational activity.