Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-46.3v2

As used in the State Architectural and Licensed 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 and other technical submissions, the administration

of construction contracts, and reviewing and coordinating technical

submissions prepared by other licensed professionals for use in the

construction or alteration of any building in the Code Use Groups

subject to the State Architectural and Licensed Interior Designers

Act; 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;

3. "License" means a license issued by the Board;

4. "Building" means a structure consisting of a foundation,

walls, all floors and roof, with or without other parts;

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5. "Board" means the Board of Governors of the Architects,

Landscape Architects and Licensed Interior Designers of Oklahoma;

6. "Certificate of authority" means the authorization granted

by the Board for persons to practice or offer to practice

architecture, landscape architecture, or licensed interior design

through a partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited

liability company or limited liability partnership;

7. "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 licensed interior design with the intent that they

be considered as formal or final documents, but shall not include

record drawings. Prototypical plans are not technical submissions;

8. "Responsible control" means the amount of direct control and

personal supervision of architectural, landscape architectural or

licensed interior design work and detailed knowledge of the content

of tactical and technical submissions during their preparation as is

ordinarily exercised by architects, landscape architects or licensed

interior designers applying the required professional standard of

care. The terms direct control and personal supervision, whether

used separately or together, mean active and personal management of

the firm's personnel and practice to maintain charge of, and

concurrent direction over, architecture, landscape architecture or

licensed interior design and the instruments of professional

services to which the licensee affixes the seal, signature, and

date;

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

landscape architecture as provided in the State Architectural and

Licensed Interior Designers Act;

10. "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
nning 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

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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

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;

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

Uniform Building Code Commission of the State of Oklahoma;

12. "Applicable building official" means the official

responsible for the application of the adopted 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 applicable building

official shall be defined as the State Fire Marshal;

13. "Licensed interior designer" means a person licensed to

practice licensed interior design as provided in the State

Architectural and Licensed Interior Designers Act;

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

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;

15. "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 architects,

landscape architects and licensed interior designers and for

complying with the Military Service Occupation, Education and

Credentialing Act for military personnel and their spouses;

16. "Licensed interior design" means the rendering of or the

offering to render services relating to nonstructural interior

construction by a licensed interior designer in a newly constructed

or existing building, including but not limited to:

a. analysis, research, planning, and design of the

interior spaces of a building for the purpose of

enhancing and protecting the health, safety, and

welfare of the public by preparation of interior

drawings, specifications, or other technical

submissions and administration of nonstructural

interior construction,

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b. design and specification of code-compliant interior

finishes, furnishings, fixtures, or equipment,

c. design or modification of existing nonstructural

interior partitions, doors, suspended ceiling systems,

or constructed ceiling elements,

d. design or modification of existing internal

circulation systems or number and configuration of

interior exits for suite occupant load, or

e. review, analysis, and evaluation of building codes,
interior

finishes, furnishings, fixtures, or equipment,

c. design or modification of existing nonstructural

interior partitions, doors, suspended ceiling systems,

or constructed ceiling elements,

d. design or modification of existing internal

circulation systems or number and configuration of

interior exits for suite occupant load, or

e. review, analysis, and evaluation of building codes,

accessibility standards, or guidelines for interior

planning, design, and nonstructural interior

construction compliance;

17. "Nonstructural interior construction" means the

construction of elements which do not include:

a. design of, or the responsibility for, architectural

and engineering work, except as explicitly provided

for in this act,

b. altering the building's existing primary structural,

fire and life safety, mechanical, electrical, and

plumbing systems, as set out in Oklahoma state law,

this act, or the current International Building Code

as adopted by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code

Commission, or other related primary building systems,

and

c. changes to the building's core and shell; and

18. "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 Licensed Interior

Designers Act shall have the same meaning when applicable to any

rule promulgated pursuant to such act.