Board of Landscape Architect Examiners
Amy Kobe, Executive Director
77 S. High Street , 16th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6108
(614) 466-2316
(614) 644-9048 FAX
amy.kobe@arla.state.oh.us

Statutes and Regulations
Title/Practice Act Summary

Continuing Education Requirements
Requires 24 contact hours per biennial renewal period (due 10/31 in odd years, effective 10/31/2007)

• All courses must include technical and practical applications that impact the public health, safety, and welfare, plus also maintain, improve, expand, or enhance the quality of existing technical knowledge, fill voids that may exist in professional education and training, or develop new and relevant technical profession skills and knowledge
• Acceptable activities include those that increase the landscape architect’s knowledge and/or understanding of technical or professional subjects and contribute directly to the improvement of the landscape architect’s professional knowledge and competence to practice landscape architecture. Graduate/undergraduate level course; course, program, seminar, conference, workshop or similar event presented/ sponsored/approved by an accredited institution of higher learning or a professional organization; teaching a graduate/undergraduate course, on a part-time basis; teaching a course or seminar, delivering a lecture, presenting a paper, or a program, workshop or monograph at an educational event meeting; publishing an article in a professional journal or book
• Self directed activities can qualify if the licensee: (1) accounts for time spent on the activity; (2) summarize the content of the activity; and (3) relate the activity to the public health, safety and welfare.
• ASLA activities are deemed approved
• For more details on the requirements

Exceptions and Exemptions
The law is not intended to restrict or otherwise affect the right of any individual to practice architecture or engineering nor does it exclude architects or engineers from the practice of landscape architecture as is incidental to their practices.

Landscape architecture does not include:

• the design of structures or facilities with separate and self-contained purposes
  for habitation or industry; and
• the design of streets and highways, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers, and
  water and sewage treatment facilities, such as are exclusive to the practice of
  engineering or architecture.

Exempt persons:

• Any individual engaged in the occupation of growing or marketing nursery
  stock, or using the title nurseryperson, landscape nurseryperson, gardener,
  landscape gardener, landscape designer, general contractor, landscape
  contractor, land developer, golf course architect, or golf course designer.
  Such individuals may not practice landscape architecture or use the title
  landscape architect unless licensed to do so. Such individuals may provide
  drawings or graphic diagrams that are necessary for the proper layout of the
  vendor’s goods or materials for public or private land or arranging for the
  installation of the goods or materials.
• Permits landscape designers to engage in the design of spaces utilizing plant
  materials and ancillary paving and building materials or arranging for the
  installation of such materials.
• Does not prohibit an individual from designing or preparing drawings or
  specifications for any real property owned by the individual.
• Provides an exemption for design-build contracts as follows: Any person
  performing labor or providing services pursuant to a construction contract
  may offer or provide LA services in connection with the person's other labor
  or services if all of the following apply:
  (1) the person employs a licensed LA
  or enters into a contract with a business entity certified to provide LA
  services;
  (2) the person intending to perform the actual construction of an
  improvement to real property as part of a design-build contract offers the LA
  services;
  (3) the contractor, the licensed LA, or the certified business entity
  meets the statutory requirements when design-build services are provided to
  a public authority. No person without a certificate of authorization shall offer
  LA services or engage in the practice of LA pursuant to any construction
  contract whose terms are to be performed by another person or represent to
  the public that the person engages in the practice of LA or provides LA
  services without a valid certificate of authorization.
  

Reciprocity
Licensees are exempt if licensed in another jurisdiction with CE and has met those requirements. Only applies if that jurisdiction provides reciprocity for OH licensees. Licensee may submit evidence of completion of CE in another jurisdiction in subject matter required by Ohio. The licensee will receive 1 CH of credit for each hour reported to another jurisdiction.

ASLA Chapter Licensure Contact
Eric Sauer, ASLA
eric@envision-works.com

State Legislature Contact Information
Ohio State Legislature Web Site

Source: American Society of Landscape Architects

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