Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 55 - The Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Commercial Interior Designers of Oklahoma
Chapter 10 - Licensure and Practice of Architects, Landscape Architects and Registration of Commercial Interior Designers
Subchapter 11 - Rules of Professional Conduct
Section 55:10-11-7 - Professional conduct

(a) An Architect, Landscape Architect, Registered Commercial Interior Designer, or Entity shall preserve the confidences of the client or employer.

(b) Each office maintained for the preparation of drawings, specification, reports or other professional work shall have a Licensee or Registrant in that office having Responsible Control of the work.

(c) A Licensee or Registrant shall not sign or seal drawings, specifications, reports or other professional work for which they do not have Responsible Control. Prototypical plans are an exception to the rule as noted in OAC 55:10-11-8(e)(f).

(d) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity shall neither offer nor make any gifts, other than gifts of nominal value including, for example, reasonable entertainment and hospitality, with the intent of influencing the judgment of an existing or prospective client in connection with a project in which the Licensee, Registrant, or Entity is interested. Intent of influence means influence, direct or indirect, which induces or tends to induce consideration or action with respect to any prospective work on any basis other than the merits of the matter.

(e) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity shall not engage directly or indirectly with or as an agent or representative to solicit work on their behalf whose compensation is contingent, in whole or in part, upon obtaining professional work for the Entity, Architect, Landscape Architect, or Registered Commercial Interior Designer.

(f) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity shall not make false statements about the professional work, or maliciously injure or attempt to injure the prospects, practice or employment position of others.

(g) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity shall not furnish limited services in such a manner as to enable owners, draftsmen, or others to evade public health and safety requirements.

(h) A Licensee, Registrant, or Entity provides a service to the client, as well as a product and/or drawings and as such is only responsible for the design of the facility represented by the products and/or drawings they completed, signed, sealed and dated for a specific client and location. Should the client or any other individual modify or change locations of the facility or make changes to the design without the authorization of the Licensee or Registrant, the Licensee or Registrant is only responsible and liable for the project as they signed, sealed and dated it and the site at the original location. A Licensee or Registrant is allowed to review and adapt documents already sealed by the original Licensee or Registrant when modifying the plan and/or bringing the plan up to the current code requirements at the same location as the original site. In this case, the Licensee or Registrant is required to sign, seal and date only the modifications to the original documents and shall only be responsible for their new modifications.

(i) Nothing contained in 55:10-11-7(h) shall apply to prototype plans, where the Licensee is allowed to review and adapt a prototypical technical submission, making changes to adapt in whole or in part to a different location and/or bring the plan up to the current code requirements. In this case, the Licensee is required to sign, seal and date the adapted, integrated documents and the licensee assumes full responsibility for the documents, in their entirety, as if fully prepared by or under the licensed architect's responsible control.