SB43 Alabama 2012 Session

Under existing law, any person who practices landscape architecture or uses the title "landscape architect" must be licensed

This bill would add the title "registered landscape architect" and would also require a license

Under existing law, as an alternative to other licensing requirements, any person with at least eight years of actual practical experience in landscape architectural work may qualify for a license

This bill would delete the alternative licensing for eight years of actual practical experience and require a licensed landscape architect to have educational experience from an approved landscape architectural school and submit proof of practical experience to qualify for a license

Under existing law, to become a licensed landscape architect, an applicant would take a written examination

This bill would require the applicant to take a board approved examination

Under exiting law, a landscape architect must pay, on the first day of January of each year, an annual license fee to the board. If the fee is not paid by the thirtieth day of June of the year a delinquency notice may be mailed and after 30 days the architect's certificate shall be suspended

This bill would change the date of the delinquency notice to the fifteenth day of March

To amend Sections 34-17-20, 34-17-21, as amended by Act No. 2011-166, 2011 Regular Session (Acts 2011, p. ____), 34-17-22, and 34-17-24 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to landscape architects; to allow for the use of the title "registered landscape architects"; to delete the provision that allows eight years of practical experience qualification for a license; to provide further for the licensing examination; and to change the date in which delinquency notices for failure to pay a license fee can be mailed.