(a) There shall be in the Department of Consumer Protection a State Board of Landscape Architects which shall consist of seven members appointed by the Governor subject to the provisions of section 4-9a. The Governor may remove any member from office for misconduct, incapacity or neglect of duty. Four members of the board shall be landscape architects whose residences and principal places of business are within this state, who have been actively engaged in the practice of landscape architecture for not less than ten years and who are licensed to practice landscape architecture within this state, and three members of the board shall be public members. The members of the board shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The board shall keep a true and complete record of all proceedings of the board.

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Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 20-368

  • Board: means the State Board of Landscape Architects appointed under the provisions of section 20-368. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-367
  • practice of landscape architecture: means rendering or offering to render the service of site planning, which may involve and encompass the design or management of land, the arrangement of natural and artificial elements, including, but not limited to, grading and incidental drainage, soil and erosion control, and planting plans, and the determination and consideration of inherent problems of the land relating to natural and artificial forces with concern for resource conservation in accordance with accepted professional standards of public health, safety and welfare, such service to be rendered to clients by consultation, investigation, reconnaissance, research, planning, specification, design or periodic observation. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-367

(b) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, concerning eligibility for landscape architectural licensing examinations, appeals of examination grades, reciprocal licensing and such other matters as the commissioner deems necessary to effect the purposes of this chapter.