Statutes and Regulations
Title/Practice Act Summary PDF effective July 1/06

Continuing Education Requirements
CE requirements are pending. New law requires 30 hours per biennial renewal cycle.

Exceptions and Exemptions
The law exempts licensed architects, engineers, and land surveyors.

The practice of landscape architecture shall not include:

• the design, assessment, analysis or evaluation of structures or systems
  and appurtenant structures, and water and sewage treatment facilities as are
  exclusive to the practice of professional engineers, natural scientists,
  or architects as defined by law
• the making of land surveys or final land plats for official approval or recording,
  the official mapping of soils, or the analysis, testing, and reporting of soil and
  bedrock conditions, delineation of wetlands or determination of soil, surface
  or groundwater related to hazardous waste contamination
• Business conducted by any agriculturalist, horticulturalist, tree expert,
  arborist, forester, wetland scientist, certified professional in erosion or
  sediment control, natural scientist, soil scientist, nurseryman or landscape
  nurseryman, gardener, landscape gardener, landscape designer, landscape
  contractor, irrigation designer, garden or lawn caretaker, or grader or
  cultivator of land, as these terms are generally used, except that no such
  person shall use the title ‘landscape architect’ or its derivations unless licensed.
• Preparation of wetland mitigation plans by a wetland scientist, natural
  scientist or soil scientist, except that no such person shall use the title
  ‘landscape architect’ or its derivations unless licensed.
• Federal employees while practicing landscape architecture for the federal
  government in New Hampshire.
• Preparation of details and shop drawings by persons, other than landscape
  architects, for use in connection with the execution of their work.
• Preparation of plans, drawings and specifications for and the supervision
  of the construction or alteration of landscape design associated with farms,
  residences, or institutional or commercial uses, where the client or reviewing
  governmental entity does not require the stamp of a licensed landscape architect.
• Supervision of builders, or superintendents employed by such builders,
  of the installation of landscape projects.

ASLA Chapter Licensure Contact
Gordon Leedy, Jr., ASLA
GLeedy@VHB.com

Greg Grigsby, ASLA
erinnhcd@nh.vt.net

State Legislature Contact Information
New Hampshire State Legislature Web Site

Source: American Society of Landscape Architects

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