Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-46.3v1

As used in the State Architectural and Registered Commercial

Interior Designers Act:

1. "Architect" means any person who is licensed in the practice

of architecture in the State of Oklahoma as hereinafter defined;

2. "Practice of architecture" means rendering or offering to

render certain services, in connection with the design and

construction, enlargement or alteration of a building or a group of

buildings and the space surrounding such buildings, including

buildings which have as their principal purpose human occupancy or

habitation. The services referred to include planning, providing

preliminary studies, designs, drawings, specifications,

investigations or technical submissions, the administration of

construction contracts, and the coordination of any elements of

technical submissions prepared by other consultants including, as

appropriate and without limitation, consulting engineers and

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landscape architects; provided, that the practice of architecture

shall include such other professional services as may be necessary

for the rendering of or offering to render architectural services.

The preparation of plans and specifications for the following

tasks is within the scope of practice of both architecture and

engineering:

a. site plans depicting the location and orientation of a

building on the site based on:

(1) a determination of the relationship of the

intended use with the environment, topography,

vegetation, climate, and geographic aspects, and

(2) the legal aspects of site development, including

setback requirements, zoning, and other legal

restrictions,

b. life safety plans and related codes analyses,

c. roof plans and details depicting the design of roof

system materials, components, drainage, slopes, and

directions and location of roof accessories and

equipment, not involving structural engineering

calculations,

d. design of shallow spread footing foundations, and

e. the incorporation of other design professionals'

depiction of building systems, including

architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and

plumbing systems into the design professionals' own

work, in:

(1) plan views,

(2) cross-sections depicting building components from

a hypothetical cut line through buildings, and

(3) the design of details of components and

assemblies;

3. "Registration" or "license" means a certificate of

registration or license issued by the Board. The definition of

"license" shall apply to those persons licensed under a practice

act. The definition of "registration" shall apply to those persons

registered under the title registered commercial interior designer

under this act;

4. "Building" means any structure used, or intended to be used,

to support, shelter, or enclose any use or occupancy;

5. "Board" means the Board of Governors of the Licensed

Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Commercial Interior

Designers of Oklahoma;

6. "Certificate of authority" means the authorization granted

by the Board for persons to practice or offer to practice

architecture, or landscape architecture, through a partnership,

corporation, limited liability company or limited liability

partnership;

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7. "Certificate of title" means the authorization granted by

the Board for a partnership, corporation, limited liability company

or limited liability partnership to use the title registered

commercial interior designer or any modification or derivation of

these terms;

8. "Technical submissions" means drawings, plans,

specifications, studies and any other technical reports or documents

which are issued in the course of practicing architecture, landscape

architecture or registered commercial interior design with the

intent that they be considered as formal or final documents.

Technical submissions shall not include record drawings or
vation of

these terms;

8. "Technical submissions" means drawings, plans,

specifications, studies and any other technical reports or documents

which are issued in the course of practicing architecture, landscape

architecture or registered commercial interior design with the

intent that they be considered as formal or final documents.

Technical submissions shall not include record drawings or

prototypical plans. However, technical submissions may be further

defined by Board rules;

9. "Responsible control" means the active and personal

management by a licensed architect, landscape architect, or

registered commercial interior designer of the firm's personnel and

practice, applying the required standard of care, to maintain

detailed knowledge over the design and technical decisions related

to the preparation and implementation of the professional services

to which the licensee or registrant affixes his or her seal,

signature, and date;

10. "Landscape architect" means a person licensed to practice

landscape architecture as provided in the State Architectural and

Registered Commercial Interior Designers Act;

11. "Landscape architecture" means the performance of

professional services defined as teaching, consultations,

investigations, reconnaissance, research, planning, design,

preparation of construction drawings and specifications,

construction observation and the coordination of any elements of

technical submissions prepared by others in connection with the

planning and arranging of land and the elements thereon for public

and private use and enjoyment, including the design and layout of

roadways, service areas, parking areas, walkways, steps, ramps,

pools, parks, parkways, trails and recreational areas, the location

and site of improvements including buildings and other structures,

and the grading of the land, surface and subsoil drainage, erosion

control, planting, reforestation, and the preservation of the

natural landscape, in accordance with accepted professional

standards, and to the extent that the dominant purpose of such

services or creative works is the preservation, conservation,

enhancement, or determination of proper land uses, natural land

features, ground cover and plantings, or naturalistic and aesthetic

values.

The practice of landscape architecture shall include the

location and arrangement of tangible objects and features as are

incidental and necessary to the purpose outlined for landscape

architecture. The practice of landscape architecture shall not

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include the design of structures or facilities with separate and

self-contained purposes for habitation or industry, or the design of

public streets, highways, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers and

sewage treatment facilities, that are statutorily defined as the

practice of engineering or architecture;

12. "Code" means the nationally recognized codes adopted by the

Uniform Building Code Commission of the State of Oklahoma;

13. "Building official" means the officer, other designated

authority, or duly authorized representative charged with the

administration and enforcement of the building code as implemented

by the local, municipal or county jurisdiction in which a building

is located. Where no building code has been adopted by the local,

municipal or county jurisdiction, the building official shall be

defined as the State Fire Marshal;

14. "Registered commercial interior designer" means a person

recognized by this state who is registered, qualified by examination

and meeting all the requirements set forth in the State

Architectural and Registered Commercial Interior Designers Act and

the Board's rules;

15. "Plans" means technical documents issued by the licensed

and/or registered professionals intended to meet all current and

applicable codes as adopted by the Uniform Building Code Commission
by this state who is registered, qualified by examination

and meeting all the requirements set forth in the State

Architectural and Registered Commercial Interior Designers Act and

the Board's rules;

15. "Plans" means technical documents issued by the licensed

and/or registered professionals intended to meet all current and

applicable codes as adopted by the Uniform Building Code Commission

of the State of Oklahoma, other statutory codes and applicable

federal codes and which shall be submitted to all required building

code and/or permit offices required by the State of Oklahoma,

county, municipal and/or federal government;

16. "Equivalent standards" means those standards adopted by the

Board intended to be used as alternative equivalents to determine

competency for education, training and testing for licensing

architects and/or landscape architects and registering commercial

interior designers and for complying with the Military Service

Occupation, Education and Credentialing Act for military personnel

and their spouses;

17. "Commercial interior design" means the rendering of or the

offering to render designs, consultations, studies, planning,

drawings, specifications, contract documents or other technical

submissions and the administration of interior construction and

contracts relating to nonstructural interior construction by a

registered commercial interior designer in a new constructed or

existing building when the core and shell elements are not going to

be changed;

18. "Nonstructural commercial interior construction" means the

construction of elements which do not include exterior components of

a building such as exterior walls, any load-bearing wall, any load-

bearing column or any other load-bearing elements of a building

essential to the structural integrity of the building such as wind

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loads and seismic loads and to any element which must be designed

for wind loads and seismic loads; and

l9. "Fire and life safety systems" means those systems and

construction that pertain to fire and life safety protection, such

as fire sprinklers, fire alarms, smoke evacuation systems, fire

walls, fire barriers or smoke barriers as defined by the current

International Building Code adopted by the Oklahoma Uniform Building

Code Commission.

The definitions in the State Architectural and Registered

Commercial Interior Designers Act shall have the same meaning when

applicable to any rule promulgated pursuant to such act.