HB 1639 -- Architects, Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Landscape
Architects

Sponsor:  Wasson

This bill changes the laws regarding the Missouri Board for
Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors
and Landscape Architects.  In its main provisions, the bill:

(1)  Increases the membership of the board from 14 to 15 by
adding one more professional engineer;

(2)  Allows a landscape architect to serve as the chairperson of
the board;

(3)  Gives all rights, powers, and duties available to the
members of the architectural and professional engineering
divisions of the board to the members of the professional land
surveying and landscape architectural divisions of the board;

(4)  Allows certain faculty members of accredited schools of
landscape architecture to serve on the board;

(5)  Establishes a sequential rotation for the appointment of a
chairperson to the board;

(6)  Limits a chairperson to one, four-year term;

(7)  Authorizes the Missouri Association of Landscape Architects
to fill board vacancies as other state associations are allowed
to do;

(8)  Allows a person holding an inactive license as a
professional land surveyor to use that title or the initials
"PLS" after his or her name; and

(9)  Requires all licensees to prepare or personally supervise
the preparation of all documents containing their personal seal
and to only seal documents in areas in which they are qualified
by education, training, and experience in the specific technical
areas involved.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated September 14, 2010 at 3:11 pm