Oklahoma § 59-46.28 - Scope of act

§ 59-46.28. Scope of act

The State Architectural and Licensed Interior Designers Act

shall not require the licensing of practitioners of the following

professions and occupations to practice landscape architecture:

1. A professional engineer, as defined in Section 475.2 of this

title, certified to practice the profession in this state under any

act to regulate the practice of that profession. Nothing contained

in the State Architectural and Licensed Interior Designers Act shall

be construed as precluding an architect or engineer from performing

services included within the definition of "landscape architecture"

when incidental, meaning less than ten percent (10%) of the total

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

project cost, to the performance of his or her normal practice as an

architect or engineer;

2. A landscape contractor building or installing what was

designed by a landscape architect;

3. An agriculturist, horticulturist, forester as defined in

Section 1202 of this title, nursery operator, gardener, landscape

gardener, garden or lawn caretaker and grader or cultivator of land

involved in the selection, placement, planting and maintenance of

plant material;

4. Persons who act under the supervision of a licensed

landscape architect or an employee of a person lawfully engaged in

the practice of landscape architecture and who, in either event,

does not assume responsible charge of design or supervision;

5. Regional planners or urban planners, who evaluate and

develop land-use plans to provide for community and municipal

projections of growth patterns based on demographic needs;

6. A landscape designer or contractor whose business is

choosing types of plants, planning their location and the design of

landscapes for those projects or whose work is limited to projects

for a single-family residential home. Landscape design or

installation work may also be performed by an owner or occupant on

the single-family residence of the owner or occupant;

7. Persons other than landscape architects who prepare details

and shop drawings for use in connection with the execution of their

work; and

8. Builders or their superintendents in the supervision of

landscape architectural projects.

Added by Laws 1980, c. 314, § 14, eff. July 1, 1980. Amended by

Laws 1986, c. 287, § 20, operative July 1, 1986. Renumbered from §

45.27 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 287, § 32, operative July 1,

1986. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 77, § 2, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws

2006, c. 163, § 20, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 184, § 18, eff.

July 1, 2009; Laws 2014, c. 234, § 17, eff. July 1, 2014; Laws 2021,

c. 443, § 17, eff. July 1, 2021; Laws 2024, c. 138, § 19.