SUBCHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
55:10-1-1. Purpose
55:10-1-2. Terms defined by statute
55:10-1-3. Definitions
55:10-1-4. Statutory charges of the Board
55:10-1-5. Severability clause
55:10-1-6. Operations of the Board
55:10-1-7. Service of process

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55:10-1-1. Purpose
The rules of this Chapter are set forth for the purpose of interpreting and implementing the Act, establishing the Board and conferring upon it responsibility for registration of Architects and Landscape architects, regulation of the practice of architecture and landscape architecture and enforcement of the Act. The rules of this Chapter are known and cited as OAC 55:10.

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55:10-1-2. Terms defined by statute
Terms defined in the Act shall have the same meanings when used in this Chapter unless the context or subject matter clearly requires a different interpretation.

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55:10-1-3. Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Act" means the currently enacted and effective State Architectural Act, codified at 59 O.S., Section 46.1, et seq.

"Applicant" means an individual who has submitted an application for registration to the Board.

"Architect" means an individual who engages in the practice of architecture and, for the purpose of these Chapter 10 Rules, holds a License or Certificate of Registration issued by the Board.

"Architect(s) of Record" means a Registrant currently licensed and in good standing with this Board, that has met statutory and OAC 55:10 requirements, who is directly responsible to this Board for the firm practice and the filing and paying of all fees and documents.

"ARE" means the current architect registration examination, prepared by NCARB and adopted by this Board as the licensing examination.

"Assembly hall" means included, but not limited to, all buildings or portions of buildings used for gathering together 50 or more persons for such purposes as deliberation, worship, entertainment, amusement, or awaiting transportation. Assembly occupancies include:

(A) Armories

(B) Assembly halls

(C) Auction Rooms

(D) Auditoriums

(E) Bowling lanes

(G) Club rooms

(H) College and university classrooms, 50 persons and over

(I) Conference rooms

(J) Courtrooms

(K) Dance halls

(L) Department stores

(M) Drinking establishments

(N) Exhibition halls

(O) Gymnasiums

(P) Libraries

(Q) Mortuary chapels

(R) Motion picture theaters

(S) Museums

(T) Passenger stations and terminals of air, surface, underground, and marine public transportation facilities

(U) Pool rooms

(V) Recreation piers

(W) Restaurants

(X) Shopping centers

(Y) Skating rinks

(Z) Supermarkets

(AA) Theaters.

"Base state" means the original state in which licensure was obtained or the state to which the Licensee transferred his original file and all documents and is currently licensed and in good standing.

"Board" means The Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects and Landscape Architects of Oklahoma.

"Candidate" means a person who has been approved to sit for the examinations given by the Board, or who has passed said examinations, but has not been issued a Certificate of Registration.

"CE" means continuing education.

"Certificate of Authority" means the authorization granted by the Board for individuals to practice or offer to practice architecture or landscape architecture in the State through an Entity.

"Certificate of Registration" means the authority granted by the Board to an individual registrant to practice or offer to practice architecture or landscape architecture in the State.

"CEU" means a continuing education unit of one Contact Hour.

"CLARB" means Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards.

"Contact Hour" as used in the continuing education requirements means one clock hour of not less than 50 minutes.

"Dormitories" means those occupancies in which sleeping accommodations are provided for normal residential purposes and include all buildings designed to provide sleeping accommodations. Dormitory occupancies are in the following groups:

(A) Apartments/apartments for elderly

(B) Correction centers

(C) Detention Centers

(D) Dormitories

(E) Hotels/motels

(F) Jails

(G) Lodging or rooming houses

(H) Orphanages for age 6 years and older

(I) Penal institutions

(J) Reformatories

(K) Residential-restrained care institutions

"Educational buildings" means all buildings used for the gathering of groups of 6 or more persons for purposes of instruction. Educational occupancies include:

(A) Academies

(B) Child day-care facilities

(C) Colleges and universities

(D) Kindergartens

(E) Nursery schools

(F) Schools.

"Entity" means any group of individuals joined together to offer, contract for services, or practice architecture or landscape architecture. Entity shall include partnerships, firms, associations, corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnership and any other business or professional group recognized under the Act and approved by the Board to engage in the practice of architecture or landscape architecture.

"Examination" means the current licensing examinations administered by this Board for Architects and Landscape Architects.

"Factories" means factories making products of all kinds and properties devoted to operations such as processing, assembling, mixing, packaging, finishing or decorating, and repairing, including, among others, the following:

(A) College and university non-instructional laboratories

(B) Creameries

(C) Dry cleaning plants

(D) Factories of all kinds

(E) Laboratories

(F) Laundries

(G) Smokehouses.

"Fiscal Year" means July 1 though June 30.

"Hospitals" means occupancies for purposes such as medical or other treatment or care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness, disease or infirmity; and for the care of infants, convalescents, or infirm aged persons. Health care occupancies provide sleeping facilities for the occupants or are occupied by persons who are mostly incapable of self-preservation because of age, physical or mental disability, or because of security measures not under the occupants' control. Hospital occupancies are treated in the following groups:

(A) Ambulatory care facilities
(B) Health care facilities
	(i) Hospitals
	(ii) Nursing homes [Attorney General Opinion 64-108, as modified by Attorney General Opinion 93-036 (1994)]
(C) Mentally retarded care institutions
(D) Residential-custodial care:
	(i) Homes for the infirm aged
	(ii) Nurseries
(E) Supervisory care facilities.

"IDP" means Intern-Architect Development Program.

"Intern" means a person in the process of obtaining training credits acceptable to the Board in order to complete requirement to pursue licensing.

"LAAB" means Landscape Architectural Accrediting Board.

"LARE" means the current Landscape Architect examination prepared by CLARB and adopted by the Board as a licensing examination.

"Landscape Architect" means an individual currently licensed to practice landscape architecture in Oklahoma.

"License" means the issuance of a Certificate of Registration or Licensure to an individual by the Board.

"Licensee" means Registrant.

"Licensure" means Registration and shall have the meaning set forth in the Act.

"NAAB" means the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

"NCARB" means National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

"Reciprocal license" means a license issued to practice architecture or landscape architecture by reciprocity based on a current license in good standing in another jurisdiction.

"Registrant" means an individual licensed in the State of Oklahoma by this Board to practice architecture or landscape architecture.

"Registration" means Licensure.

"Resident State" means the state where the Applicant legally resides.

"Responsible Control" shall have the meaning set forth in the Act at Section 46.3.

"Sole proprietorship" means the only owner of a firm, licensed as an individual to practice architecture or landscape architecture.

"Sponsor" means an individual, organization, association, institution or other entity which provides an educational activity for the purpose of fulfilling the continuing educational requirements of the Board.

"Stadium" means all facilities designed for the purpose of viewing sports events. Stadium facilities include:

(A) Bleachers

(B) Coliseums

(C) Grandstands.

"Technical submissions" means designs, drawings, specifications, studies and other technical reports prepared in the course of the practice of architecture.

"UNE" means the former Landscape Architect registration examination, prepared by CLARB and adopted by this Board as the licensing examination.

"Warehouses" means all buildings or structures utilized primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, merchandise, products and vehicles. Included in this occupancy group are:

(A) Cold storage

(B) Freight terminals

(C) Hangars

(D) Parking garages

(E) Truck and marine terminals

(F) Warehouses.

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55:10-1-4. Statutory charges of the Board
Provisions of the Act charge the Board with enforcement and adoption of all reasonable and necessary rules and regulations which it may deem advisable and empowers the Board with authority to deny, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew Certificates of Registration and Certificates of Authority for certain causes. The Act also empowers the Board with civil fining power and does not preclude the Board from using any necessary legal proceedings to enforce its decisions.

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55:10-1-5. Severability clause
Any part of the rules in this Chapter, found by a Court or the Attorney General to be inconsistent with the provisions thereof as presently exist or are hereafter amended, shall be interpreted so as to comply with such statutes as they presently exist or are hereafter amended and the partial or total invalidity of any section or sections of these rules shall not affect its valid section. These rules go through the legislative process, thereby giving them the same effect as law.

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55:10-1-6 Operations of the Board
Whenever the operation of the Board, the statutes applying thereto, or the rules in this Chapter are inconsistent with the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act, 75 O.S., Sections 250, et. seq, the provisions of the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act shall govern.

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55:10-1-7. Service of process
Service of process may be served in judicial procedures on the Secretary-Treasurer of the Board or Executive Director at the Board's current address.