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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BURNS, GIBBONS, HALUSKA, KORTZ, KOTIK, MANN, PAYNE, SIPTROTH AND PASHINSKI, MARCH 3, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, MARCH 3, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending the act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1527, No.535), |
2 | entitled "An act providing for and regulating the licensing |
3 | of landscape architects; fixing fees; creating the State |
4 | Board of Landscape Architects; imposing powers and duties on |
5 | the Department of State, the Commissioner of Professional and |
6 | Occupational Affairs and the board; and prescribing unlawful |
7 | acts and penalties," further providing for application for |
8 | license and qualifications and experience requirements of |
9 | applicants and for continuing education. |
10 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
11 | hereby enacts as follows: |
12 | Section 1. Section 6(c) of the act of January 24, 1966 (1965 |
13 | P.L.1527, No.535), known as the Landscape Architects' |
14 | Registration Law, amended March 7, 1984 (P.L.129, No.24), is |
15 | amended to read: |
16 | Section 6. Application for License; Qualifications and |
17 | Experience Requirements of Applicants.--* * * |
18 | (c) The board may register and license without written |
19 | examination [(i)] a person who holds an unexpired license or |
20 | certification of registration issued by proper authority of |
21 | another state or foreign country in which the requirements and |
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1 | qualifications to engage in the practice of landscape |
2 | architecture were at the time of initial issuance of a license |
3 | or certificate of registration at least equal to the standards |
4 | of this Commonwealth existing at that time[; or (ii) an |
5 | applicant who has ten years of active experience as a landscape |
6 | architect and is a graduate of an approved institution, or who |
7 | has fifteen years of active experience even though not a |
8 | graduate of an approved institution, if in the opinion of the |
9 | board the experience is of such grade and character as to fit |
10 | the person to assume responsible charge of work involved in the |
11 | practice of landscape architecture]. |
12 | Section 2. Section 9.1(b) of the act, added December 7, 1994 |
13 | (P.L.774, No.107), is amended to read: |
14 | Section 9.1. Continuing Education Required.--* * * |
15 | (b) Beginning with the license period designated by |
16 | [regulation] the board, each person licensed under this act |
17 | shall be required to obtain [ten] twenty-four hours of mandatory |
18 | continuing education during each two-year license period. A |
19 | licensed landscape architect who wishes to activate a license |
20 | which has been placed on inactive status shall be required to |
21 | document [ten] twenty-four hours of continuing education. |
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23 | Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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