Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2030 - Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Professional Landscape Architects
Chapter 5 - Examinations
Section 20 CSR 2030-5.150 - Standards for Admission to Examination- Professional Landscape Architects
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule is being amended to add the word Professional in front of Landscape Architects in the title. It is also being amended to allow applicants to take the examination while obtaining their experience and also to provide applicants admission to the examination if they have either a degree in landscape architecture from an accredited school of landscape architecture or a degree deemed equivalent.
(1) A Missouri applicant for licensure shall have a degree in landscape architecture from an accredited school of landscape architecture or a degree deemed equivalent in the opinion of the board. The minimum length of experience required of the applicant, based on education, is at least three (3) years of satisfactory landscape architectural experience after acquiring that degree. Any applicant who meets the educational requirements of section 327.612, RSMo, qualifies for admission to the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards' (CLARB) Landscape Architect Registration Examination (LARE), or its successor.
(2) For the purpose of admission to the examination, satisfactory training and experience shall include: site investigation; selection and allocation of land and water resources for appropriate use; land use feasibility studies; formulation of graphic and written criteria to govern the planning and design of land construction programs; preparation, review and analysis of master plans for land use and site development; production of overall site plans, grading plans, irrigation plans, planting plans and related construction details; specifications; cost estimates and reports for site development; collaboration in the design of roads and site structures with respect to the functional and aesthetic requirements, but not involving structural design or stability; and field observation of land area construction, restoration and maintenance.
*Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001 and 327.612, RSMo 1989, amended 2001.
