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<chapter num="01" heading="General Regulations" title_num="09" subtitle_num="28">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Definitions.">
    <text>The definitions set forth in the Business Occupations and Professions Article, §9-101, Annotated Code of Maryland, apply in this chapter unless otherwise noted.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Filing of Applications.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>An application for admittance to the examination or for registration to practice landscape architecture shall be submitted on the form provided by the Board and will be received at any time during regular business hours at the office of the Board. The application shall be filed with the Board at least 90 days before the date of the examination.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The application fee shall accompany the application. Application fees are not refundable.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The Board may require an applicant to submit, with the formal application, documentary evidence of experiential or educational qualifications.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Examinations.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Scope of the Examination.</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The scope of the examinations will be established by the Board.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>The examinations shall:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Be designed to determine the qualifications of the applicant to practice landscape architecture;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Cover such technical, professional and practical subjects as relates to the practice of the profession of landscape architecture;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Cover the basic arts and sciences, a knowledge of which is material and necessary to the proper understanding, application, and qualification for practice of the profession of landscape architecture.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The minimum passing grade in all subjects of the examination shall be established by the Board.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>An applicant receiving a passing grade on a subject included in the examination will be given credit for that subject.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>Applicants may take all or any parts of the original examination or the re-examination.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>Applicants desiring to retake certain subjects of the examination may be required to appear before the Board and furnish evidence of satisfactory study and preparation before readmittance to the examination.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" heading="Qualifications for Examination.">
    <text>To qualify for the examination, the applicant shall meet the requirements as set out in Business Occupations and Professions Article, §9-305, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" heading="Embossing Seals and Rubber Stamp Facsimiles.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>For the purpose of sealing and signing all final drawings, plans, specifications, reports, and other contract documents, referred to in Business Occupations and Professions Article, §9-501, Annotated Code of Maryland, each licensed landscape architect shall obtain an individual  seal to be used on documents prepared by the licensee or under the licensee's supervision. The seal shall imprint the name of the landscape architect and the license number.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>A rubber stamp facsimile of the seal and the live signature of the landscape architect may be applied to tracings to produce legible reproduction of the drawings or to prints made from the tracings. This provision, however, does not in any manner modify the requirements of Business Occupations and Professions Article, §9-501, Annotated Code of Maryland, in reference to use of the impression seal and signature.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Business Occupations and Professions Article, §§9-206(a), 9-207(a), and 9-304(2), Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: September 25, 1971</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">The Board of Landscape Architects was transferred from the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Licensing and Regulation, effective January 1, 1974 (2:6 Md. R. 442)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01D amended effective April 8, 1985 (12:7 Md. R. 701)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .02A amended effective October 21, 1996 (23:21 Md. R. 1467)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .04B amended effective October 7, 1985 (12:20 Md. R. 1925)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .04F—I, .08B and C, and .11A amended, and .05 repealed effective November 5, 1984 (11:22 Md. R. 1898)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .04G amended effective February 22, 1988 (15:4 Md. R. 472); July 9, 1990 (17:13 Md. R. 1610)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .04I and J repealed effective October 10, 1983 (10:20 Md. R. 1786)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .05 adopted effective October 7, 1985 (12:20 Md. R. 1925)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13A amended effective October 12, 1981 (8:20 Md. R. 1634); July 5, 1982 (9:13 Md. R. 1350); July 4, 1983 (10:13 Md. R. 1180); February 27, 1984 (11:4 Md. R. 314); November 5, 1984 (11:22 Md. R. 1989); February 22, 1988 (15:4 Md. R. 472); April 2, 1990 (17:6 Md. R. 741); September 3, 1990 (17:17 Md. R. 2080); April 13, 1992 (19:7 Md. R. 746); February 15, 1993 (20:3 Md. R. 258); February 28, 1994 (21:4 Md. R. 276)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13A amended as an emergency provision effective October 19, 1994 (21:23 Md. R. 1929); emergency status expired April 19, 1995; amended permanently effective April 24, 1995 (22:8 Md. R. 595)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13A amended as an emergency provision effective August 28, 1995 (22:19 Md. R. 1469); emergency status expired February 15, 1996; adopted permanently effective March 11, 1996 (23:5 Md. R. 378)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13 repealed and new Regulation .13 adopted as an emergency provision effective September 19, 1997 (24:21 Md. R. 1444); emergency status extended at 25:8 Md. R. 594; adopted permanently effective April 20, 1998 (25:8 Md. R. 596)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13 amended as an emergency provision effective April 12, 1999 (26:10 Md. R. 793); emergency status expired October 12, 1999</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13 amended as an emergency provision effective November 22, 1999(26:27 Md. R. 2014); emergency status expired May 15, 2000</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13 amended as an emergency provision effective May 16, 2000 (27:13 Md. R. 1209); emergency status expired July 1, 2000</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13 amended effective October 30, 2000 (27:21 Md. R. 1975)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13 amended as an emergency provision effective December 11, 2000 (28:1 Md. R. 20); amended permanently effective April 16, 2001 (28:7 Md. R. 689)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13A amended effective August 20, 2001 (28:16 Md. R. 1482); April 29, 2002 (29:8 Md. R. 699)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .13 repealed as an emergency provision effective July 1, 2003 (30:14 Md. R. 933); repealed permanently effective November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1579)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter revised effective November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1579)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>