Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-46.9v2

corporation, limited liability company or limited liability

partnership - Certificates of authority or title - Foreign entities

- Registration of trade name or service mark.

A. The practice of architecture, landscape architecture, or

licensed interior design or offering to practice these professions

for others by persons licensed under this act through a partnership,

firm, association, corporation, limited liability company or limited

liability partnership as directors, partners, officers,

shareholders, employees, managers, members or principals is

permitted, subject to the provisions of the State Architectural and

Licensed Interior Designers Act, provided:

1. One or more of the directors, partners, officers,

shareholders, managers, members or principals of said partnership,

firm, association, corporation, limited liability company or limited

liability partnership is designated as being responsible for the

entity's activities and decisions of said partnership, firm,

association, corporation, limited liability company or limited

liability partnership;

2. Such director, partner, officer, shareholder, manager,

member or principal is duly licensed under the State Architectural

and Licensed Interior Designers Act;

3. All personnel of said partnership, firm, association,

corporation, limited liability company or limited liability

partnership who act on behalf of the entity for these professions in

the state are licensed under the State Architectural and Licensed

Interior Designers Act; and

4. Said partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited

liability company or limited liability partnership has been issued a

certificate of authority by the Board.

B. The Board shall have the power to issue, revoke, deny, or

refuse to renew a certificate of authority for a partnership, firm,

association, corporation, limited liability company or limited

liability partnership as provided for in the State Architectural and

Licensed Interior Designers Act.

C. A partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited

liability company or limited liability partnership desiring to

practice architecture, landscape architecture, or licensed interior

design shall file with the Board an application for a certificate of

authority for each office location performing work on Oklahoma

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projects on a form approved by the Board which shall include the

names, addresses, state of licensure and license number of all

partners, directors, officers, members, managers or principals of

the partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited liability

company or limited liability partnership legally responsible for the

entity's practice. The form shall name an individual having the

practice of architecture in such person's charge who is a director,

partner, officer, member, manager or principal. The person shall be

duly licensed as an architect to practice architecture or licensed

as a landscape architect to practice landscape architecture, or as a

licensed interior designer to practice licensed interior design in

this state through said partnership, firm, association, corporation,

limited liability company or limited liability partnership legally

responsible for the entity's practice or services offered and other

information required by the Board. In the event there shall be a

change in any of these persons during the term of the certification,

such change shall be filed with the Board within thirty (30) days

after the effective date of said change. If all of the requirements

of this section and the Board's current rules have been met, the

Board shall issue a certificate of authority to such partnership,

firm, association, corporation, limited liability company or limited

liability partnership.

D. Any other person licensed pursuant to the State

Architectural and Licensed Interior Designers Act, not practicing
ective date of said change. If all of the requirements

of this section and the Board's current rules have been met, the

Board shall issue a certificate of authority to such partnership,

firm, association, corporation, limited liability company or limited

liability partnership.

D. Any other person licensed pursuant to the State

Architectural and Licensed Interior Designers Act, not practicing

these professions as a partnership, firm, association, corporation,

limited liability company or limited liability partnership, shall

practice as an individual.

E. No such partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited

liability company or limited liability partnership shall be relieved

of responsibility for the conduct or acts of its agents, employees,

partners, directors, officers, managers, members or principals by

reason of its compliance with the provisions of this section, or

shall any individual practicing these professions be relieved of

responsibility for professional services performed as an individual

by reason of such person's employment or relationship with such

partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited liability

company or limited liability partnership.

F. The Secretary of State shall not issue a certificate of

incorporation or register a foreign corporation or any other entity

which includes among the objectives for which it is established any

of the words "Architect", "Architectural", "Architecture",

"Landscape Architect", "Landscape Architecture", "Licensed Interior

Designer", or "Licensed Interior Design", or any modification or

derivation of these words, unless the Board has issued for said

applicant either a certificate of authority for an entity, or a

letter indicating eligibility for an exemption pursuant to the State

Architectural and Licensed Interior Designers Act. The entity

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applying shall supply such certificate or letter from the Board with

its application for incorporation or registration.

G. The Secretary of State shall not register any trade name or

service mark which includes such words, as set forth in subsection F

of this section, or modifications or derivatives thereof in its firm

name or logotype except those entities or individuals holding

certificates of authority issued under the provisions of this

section or letters of eligibility issued by the Board.

H. Upon application for renewal and upon compliance with the

provisions of the State Architectural and Licensed Interior

Designers Act and the rules of the Board, a certificate of authority

shall be renewed as provided in this act.