Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 507-H.F.No. 217 
           An act relating to occupations and professions; 
          requiring the certification of interior designers; 
          defining certified interior designer; providing for 
          administration of certification requirements; changing 
          the name of the board of architecture, engineering, 
          land surveying, and landscape architecture; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1990, sections 116J.70, subdivision 
          2a; 319A.02, subdivision 2; 326.02, subdivisions 1, 5, 
          and by adding a subdivision; 326.03, subdivision 1; 
          326.031; 326.05; 326.06; 326.07; 326.08, subdivision 
          2; 326.09; 326.10, subdivisions 1, 2, and 2a; 326.11, 
          subdivision 1; 326.12; 326.13; and 326.14; Minnesota 
          Statutes 1991 Supplement, section 326.04. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 116J.70, 
subdivision 2a, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2a.  [LICENSE; EXCEPTIONS.] "Business license" or 
"license" does not include the following:  
    (1) any occupational license or registration issued by a 
licensing board listed in section 214.01 or any occupational 
registration issued by the commissioner of health pursuant to 
section 214.13; 
    (2) any license issued by a county, home rule charter city, 
statutory city, township, or other political subdivision; 
     (3) any license required to practice the following 
occupation regulated by the following sections:  
     (a) abstracters regulated pursuant to chapter 386; 
     (b) accountants regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
     (c) adjusters regulated pursuant to chapter 72B; 
     (d) architects regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
     (e) assessors regulated pursuant to chapter 270; 
     (f) attorneys regulated pursuant to chapter 481; 
     (g) auctioneers regulated pursuant to chapter 330; 
     (h) barbers regulated pursuant to chapter 154; 
     (i) beauticians regulated pursuant to chapter 155A; 
     (j) boiler operators regulated pursuant to chapter 183; 
     (k) chiropractors regulated pursuant to chapter 148; 
     (l) collection agencies regulated pursuant to chapter 332; 
     (m) cosmetologists regulated pursuant to chapter 155A; 
     (n) dentists, registered dental assistants, and dental 
hygienists regulated pursuant to chapter 150A; 
     (o) detectives regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
     (p) electricians regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
     (q) embalmers regulated pursuant to chapter 149; 
     (r) engineers regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
     (s) insurance brokers and salespersons regulated pursuant 
to chapter 60A; 
    (t) certified interior designers regulated pursuant to 
chapter 326; 
    (u) midwives regulated pursuant to chapter 148; 
    (u) (v) morticians regulated pursuant to chapter 149; 
    (v) (w) nursing home administrators regulated pursuant to 
chapter 144A; 
    (w) (x) optometrists regulated pursuant to chapter 148; 
    (x) (y) osteopathic physicians regulated pursuant to 
chapter 147; 
    (y) (z) pharmacists regulated pursuant to chapter 151; 
    (z) (aa) physical therapists regulated pursuant to chapter 
148; 
    (aa) (bb) physicians and surgeons regulated pursuant to 
chapter 147; 
    (bb) (cc) plumbers regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
    (cc) (dd) podiatrists regulated pursuant to chapter 153; 
    (dd) (ee) practical nurses regulated pursuant to chapter 
148; 
    (ee) (ff) professional fundraisers regulated pursuant to 
chapter 309; 
    (ff) (gg) psychologists regulated pursuant to chapter 148; 
    (gg) (hh) real estate brokers, salespersons, and others 
regulated pursuant to chapters 82 and 83; 
    (hh) (ii) registered nurses regulated pursuant to chapter 
148; 
    (ii) (jj) securities brokers, dealers, agents, and 
investment advisers regulated pursuant to chapter 80A; 
    (jj) (kk) steamfitters regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
    (kk) (ll) teachers and supervisory and support personnel 
regulated pursuant to chapter 125; 
    (ll) (mm) veterinarians regulated pursuant to chapter 156; 
    (mm) (nn) watchmakers regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
    (nn) (oo) water conditioning contractors and installers 
regulated pursuant to chapter 326; 
    (oo) (pp) water well contractors regulated pursuant to 
chapter 156A; 
    (pp) (qq) water and waste treatment operators regulated 
pursuant to chapter 115; 
    (qq) (rr) motor carriers regulated pursuant to chapter 221; 
    (rr) (ss) professional corporations regulated pursuant to 
chapter 319A; 
    (4) any driver's license required pursuant to chapter 171; 
    (5) any aircraft license required pursuant to chapter 360; 
    (6) any watercraft license required pursuant to chapter 
86B; 
    (7) any license, permit, registration, certification, or 
other approval pertaining to a regulatory or management program 
related to the protection, conservation, or use of or 
interference with the resources of land, air, or water, which is 
required to be obtained from a state agency or instrumentality; 
and 
    (8) any pollution control rule or standard established by 
the pollution control agency or any health rule or standard 
established by the commissioner of health or any licensing rule 
or standard established by the commissioner of human services.  
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 319A.02, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2.  "Professional service" means personal service 
rendered by a professional pursuant to a license or certificate 
issued by the state of Minnesota to practice medicine and 
surgery pursuant to sections 147.01 to 147.29, chiropractic 
pursuant to sections 148.01 to 148.105, registered nursing 
pursuant to sections 148.171 to 148.285, optometry pursuant to 
sections 148.52 to 148.62, psychology pursuant to sections 
148.88 to 148.98, dentistry pursuant to sections 150A.01 to 
150A.12, pharmacy pursuant to sections 151.01 to 151.40, 
podiatric medicine pursuant to Laws 1987, chapter 108, sections 
1 to 16, veterinary medicine pursuant to sections 156.001 to 
156.14, architecture, engineering, surveying, and landscape 
architecture, and certified interior design pursuant to sections 
326.02 to 326.15, accountancy pursuant to sections 326.17 to 
326.23, or law pursuant to sections 481.01 to 481.17, or 
pursuant to a license or certificate issued by another state 
pursuant to similar laws. 
    Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.02, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [REGISTRATION LICENSURE OR CERTIFICATION 
MANDATORY.] In order to safeguard life, health, and property, 
and to promote the public welfare, any person in either public 
or private capacity practicing, or offering to practice, 
architecture, professional engineering, land surveying, or 
landscape architecture, or using the title certified interior 
designer in this state, either as an individual, a copartner, or 
as agent of another, shall be registered licensed or certified 
as hereinafter provided.  It shall be unlawful for any person to 
practice, or to offer to practice, in this state, architecture, 
professional engineering, land surveying, or landscape 
architecture, or to use the title certified interior designer, 
or to solicit or to contract to furnish work within the terms of 
sections 326.02 to 326.15, or to use in connection with the 
person's name, or to otherwise assume, use or advertise any 
title or description tending to convey the impression that the 
person is an architect, professional engineer (hereinafter 
called engineer), land surveyor or, landscape architect, or 
certified interior designer, unless such person is qualified 
by registration licensure or certification under sections 326.02 
to 326.15. 
    Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.02, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 4b.  [CERTIFIED INTERIOR DESIGNER.] (a) For the 
purposes of sections 326.02 to 326.15, "certified interior 
designer" means a person who is certified under section 326.10, 
to use the title certified interior designer and who provides 
services in connection with the design of public interior 
spaces, including preparation of documents relative to 
non-load-bearing interior construction, space planning, finish 
materials, and furnishings. 
    (b) No person may use the title certified interior designer 
unless that person has been certified as an interior designer or 
has been exempted by the board.  Registered architects may be 
certified without additional testing.  Persons represent 
themselves to the public as certified interior designers if they 
use a title that incorporates the words certified interior 
designer.  
    (c) Nothing in this section prohibits the use of the title 
interior designer or the term interior design by persons not 
certified by the board.  
    (d) Nothing in this section restricts persons not certified 
by the board from providing interior design services and from 
saying that they provide such services, as long as they do not 
use the title certified interior designer. 
    (e) Nothing in this section authorizes certified interior 
designers to engage in the practice of architecture as defined 
in subdivision 2 or the practice of engineering as defined in 
subdivision 3. 
    Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.02, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 5.  [LIMITATION.] The provisions of sections 326.02 
to 326.15 shall not apply to the preparation of plans and 
specifications for the erection, enlargement, or alteration of 
any building or other structure by any person, for that person's 
exclusive occupancy or use, unless such occupancy or use 
involves the public health or safety or the health or safety of 
the employees of said person, or of the buildings listed in 
section 326.03, subdivision 2, nor to any detailed or shop plans 
required to be furnished by a contractor to a registered 
engineer, landscape architect, or architect, or certified 
interior designer, nor to any standardized manufactured product, 
nor to any construction superintendent supervising the execution 
of work designed by an architect, landscape architect, or 
engineer registered, or certified interior designer licensed or 
certified in accordance with section 326.03, nor to the planning 
for and supervision of the construction and installation of work 
by an electrical contractor or master plumber as defined in and 
licensed pursuant to this chapter, where such work is within the 
scope of such licensed activity and not within the practice of 
professional engineering, or architecture, or where the person 
does not claim to be a certified interior designer as defined in 
section 326.02, subdivisions subdivision 2 and, 3, or 4b. 
    Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.03, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  No person, except an architect, engineer, 
land surveyor or, landscape architect, or certified interior 
designer, licensed or certified as provided for in sections 
326.02 to 326.15 shall practice architecture, professional 
engineering, land surveying, or landscape architecture, or use 
the title certified interior designer, respectively, in the 
preparation of plans, specifications, reports, plats or other 
architectural, engineering, land surveying or, landscape 
architectural, or interior design documents, or in the 
observation of architectural, engineering, land surveying or, 
landscape architectural, or interior design projects.  In 
preparation of such documents, reasonable care shall be given to 
compliance with applicable laws, ordinances, and building codes 
relating to design. 
    Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.031, is 
amended to read: 
    326.031 [SPECIFICATIONS FOR PUBLIC FACILITIES, USE OF BRAND 
NAMES.] 
    Any engineer, architect, certified interior designer, or 
other person preparing specifications with respect to a contract 
for the construction of any facility for the state, or any 
agency or department thereof, or for any county, city, town, or 
school district, shall at the time of submitting such 
specifications to the governing body of the organization 
requesting the specifications, submit to such body, in writing, 
a list showing each item in the specifications which has been 
specified by brand name, unless such specifications allow for 
the consideration of an equal.  
    Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 1991 Supplement, section 
326.04, is amended to read: 
    326.04 [BOARD OF ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, LAND 
SURVEYING AND, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, AND INTERIOR DESIGN.] 
    To carry out the provisions of sections 326.02 to 326.15 
there is hereby created a board of architecture, engineering, 
land surveying and, landscape architecture, and interior 
design (hereinafter called the board) consisting of 17 20 
members, who shall be appointed by the governor.  Three members 
shall be licensed architects, five members shall be licensed 
engineers, one member shall be a licensed landscape architect, 
two members shall be licensed land surveyors, one member shall 
be a certified interior designer, and six eight members shall be 
public members.  Not more than one member of said board shall be 
from the same branch of the profession of engineering.  The 
first landscape architect certified interior designer member and 
seventh and eighth members shall be appointed as soon as 
possible and no later than 60 days after August 1, 1975 1992, 
and shall serve for a term to end on January 1, 1977 1994.  
Membership terms, compensation of members, removal of members, 
the filling of membership vacancies, and fiscal year and 
reporting requirements shall be as provided in sections 214.07 
to 214.09.  The provision of staff, administrative services and 
office space; the review and processing of complaints; the 
setting of board fees; and other provisions relating to board 
operations shall be as provided in chapter 214.  
    Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.05, is 
amended to read: 
    326.05 [QUALIFICATIONS OF BOARD MEMBERS.] 
    Each member of the board shall be a resident of this state 
at the time of appointment.  Each member except the public 
members shall have been engaged in the practice of the relevant 
profession for at least ten years and shall have been in 
responsible charge of work for at least five years.  Each such 
member shall be a member in good standing of a recognized 
society of architects, engineers, land surveyors or, landscape 
architects, or interior designers; and, except as provided in 
section 326.06, shall be a licensed architect, licensed 
engineer, licensed land surveyor or, licensed landscape 
architect, or certified interior designer.  The certified 
interior design member must have passed the National Council for 
Interior Design Qualifications test. 
    Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.06, is 
amended to read: 
    326.06 [GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD.] 
    Each member of the board shall receive a certificate of 
appointment from the governor, and, before beginning a term of 
office, shall file with the secretary of state the 
constitutional oath of office.  The board shall adopt and have 
an official seal, which shall be affixed to all licenses 
granted; shall make all rules, not inconsistent with law, needed 
in performing its duties; and shall fix standards for 
determining the qualifications of applicants for certificates, 
which shall not exceed the requirements contained in the 
curriculum of a recognized school of architecture, landscape 
architecture or, engineering, or interior design.  The board 
shall make rules to define classes of buildings with respect to 
which persons performing services described in section 326.03, 
subdivision 2, may be exempted from the provisions of sections 
326.02 to 326.15, by a finding of no probable risk to life, 
health, property or public welfare. 
    Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.07, is 
amended to read: 
    326.07 [BOARD, MEETINGS OF, OFFICERS, QUORUM.] 
    The board shall hold meetings at such times as the bylaws 
of the board may provide.  Notice of all meetings shall be given 
in such manner as the bylaws may provide.  The board shall elect 
annually from its members a chair, a vice-chair, a secretary and 
a treasurer.  A quorum of the board shall consist of not less 
than nine ten members, of whom three four shall be architects 
or, landscape architects or, land surveyors, or certified 
interior designers, three engineers, and three public members.  
    Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.08, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2.  Any member of the board, the executive secretary 
of the board, or the attorney for the board may be authorized by 
the board to attend any architectural, engineering, land 
surveying or, landscape architectural, or interior design 
conference or meeting held outside of this state, the major 
purpose of which is the consideration of problems directly 
associated with the registration or licensing of architects, 
professional engineers, land surveyors or, landscape architects, 
or certified interior designers. 
    Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.09, is 
amended to read: 
    326.09 [RECORDS OF BOARD.] 
    The board shall keep a record of its proceedings and a 
register of all applicants for licensing, showing for each the 
date of application, name, age, educational and other 
qualifications, place of business, and the place of residence, 
whether or not an examination was required and whether the 
applicant was rejected or a license granted, and the date of 
such action.  The books and register of the board shall be prima 
facie evidence of all matters recorded therein.  A roster 
showing the names and places of business or of residence of all 
licensed architects, engineers, land surveyors and, landscape 
architects, and certified interior designers shall be prepared 
by the executive secretary of the board during the month of 
July, of each even numbered year.  Roster supplements listing 
newly licensed persons shall be published semiannually between 
publications of the biennial roster.  Rosters may be printed out 
of the funds of the board, as provided in section 326.08. 
    Sec. 14.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.10, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [ISSUANCE.] The board shall on application 
therefor on a prescribed form, and upon payment of a fee 
prescribed by rule of the board, issue a license or certificate 
as an architect, engineer, land surveyor or, landscape 
architect, or certified interior designer.  A separate fee shall 
be paid for each profession licensed. 
    (1) To any person over 25 years of age, who is of good 
moral character and repute, and who has the experience and 
educational qualifications which the board by rule may prescribe.
    (2) To any person who holds an unexpired certificate of 
registration or license issued by proper authority in the 
District of Columbia, any state or territory of the United 
States, or any foreign country, in which the requirements for 
registration or licensure of architects, engineers, land 
surveyors or, landscape architects, or certified interior 
designers, respectively, at the time of registration or 
licensure in the other jurisdiction, were equal, in the opinion 
of the board, to those fixed by the board and by the laws of 
this state, and in which similar privileges are extended to the 
holders of certificates of registration or licensure issued by 
this state.  The board may require such person to submit a 
certificate of technical qualification from the National Council 
of Architectural Registration Boards in the case of an 
architect, from the National Council of Engineering Examiners in 
the case of an engineer, and from the National Council of 
Landscape Architects Registration Board in the case of a 
landscape architect, and from the National Council for Interior 
Design Qualifications in the case of a certified interior 
designer. 
    Sec. 15.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.10, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2.  [EXAMINATION.] The board may subject any 
applicant for licensure to such examinations as may be deemed 
necessary to establish qualifications. 
    In determining the qualifications in such cases of 
applicants for licensure as architects, a majority vote of the 
architect members of the board only shall be required; in 
determining the qualifications in such cases of applicants for 
licensure as engineers, a majority vote of the engineer members 
of the board only, shall be required; and in determining the 
qualifications of applicants for registration as land surveyors, 
the affirmative vote of the land surveyor member and of one 
engineer of the board only, shall be required; and in 
determining the qualifications of applicants for licensure as 
landscape architects, the affirmative vote of the landscape 
architect member of the board and of one architect member or one 
civil engineer member of the board only, shall be required; and 
in determining the qualifications of applicants for 
certification as certified interior designers, the affirmative 
vote of the interior designer member of the board, of two public 
members, and of one architect or engineer member of the board 
only, is required. 
    Sec. 16.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.10, 
subdivision 2a, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2a.  [NEEDS OF PHYSICALLY DISABLED, INCLUSION IN 
EXAMINATION.] Examinations for architect, civil structural 
engineer, and landscape architect, and certified interior 
designer shall include questions which require the applicant to 
demonstrate knowledge of the design needs of people with 
physical disabilities and of the relevant statutes and codes.  
The questions shall be developed by the board in consultation 
with the department of administration. 
    Sec. 17.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.11, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION.] The board shall 
have the power to revoke or suspend the license or certificate 
of any architect, engineer, land surveyor or, landscape 
architect, or certified interior designer, who is found guilty 
by the board of any fraud or deceit in obtaining a license or 
certificate, or of attaching the licensee's or certificate 
holder's seal or signature to any plan, specification, report, 
plat, or other architectural, engineering, land surveying or, 
landscape architectural, or interior design document not 
prepared by the person signing or sealing it or under that 
person's direct supervision, or of gross negligence, 
incompetency, or misconduct in the practice of architecture, 
engineering, land surveying or, landscape architecture, or 
interior design, or upon conviction of any violation of sections 
326.02 to 326.15 or amendments thereof, or of any crime 
involving moral turpitude or upon adjudication of insanity or 
incompetency. 
    Sec. 18.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.12, is 
amended to read: 
    326.12 [LICENSE AS EVIDENCE; SEAL.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [JUDICIAL PROOF.] The issuance of a license 
or certificate by the board shall be evidence that the person 
named therein is entitled to all the rights and privileges of a 
licensed architect, licensed engineer, licensed land 
surveyor or, licensed landscape architect, or certified interior 
designer while the license or certificate remains unrevoked or 
has not expired or has not been suspended. 
    Subd. 2.  [SEAL.] Each licensee or certificate holder may, 
upon registration, obtain a seal of a design approved by the 
board, bearing the licensee's or certificate holder's name and 
the legend "licensed architect," "licensed professional 
engineer," "licensed land surveyor," or "licensed landscape 
architect," or "certified interior designer."  Plans, 
specifications, plats, reports, and other documents prepared by 
a licensee or certificate holder may be stamped with the seal 
during the life of the license or certificate.  A rubber stamp 
facsimile thereof may be used in lieu of the seal on tracings 
from which prints are to be made or on papers which would be 
damaged by the regular seal.  It shall be unlawful for any one 
to stamp or seal any document with the stamp or seal after the 
license of the registrant named thereon has expired, been 
revoked or suspended, unless said license or certificate shall 
have been renewed or reissued. 
    Subd. 3.  [CERTIFIED SIGNATURE.] Each plan, specification, 
plat, report, or other document which under sections 326.02 to 
326.15 require be is prepared and submitted to a building 
official by a licensed architect, licensed engineer, licensed 
land surveyor or, licensed landscape architect, or certified 
interior designer shall be required to bear only the signature 
of the licensed or certified person preparing it, or the 
signature of the licensed or certified person under whose direct 
supervision it was prepared.  Each signature shall be 
accompanied by a certification that the signer is licensed under 
sections 326.02 to 326.15, by the person's license number, and 
by the date on which the signature was affixed.  The provisions 
of this paragraph shall not apply to documents of an intraoffice 
or intracompany nature. 
    Sec. 19.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.13, is 
amended to read: 
    326.13 [PRACTICE EXEMPT.] 
    Practice of architecture, engineering, landscape 
architecture, or land surveying, or use of the title certified 
interior designer in this state prior to licensure by the board 
shall be permitted under the following conditions and 
limitations: 
    (1) By any person or firm not a resident of and having no 
established place of business in this state, or any person or 
firm resident in this state, but whose arrival in the state is 
recent; provided, however, such person or a person connected 
with such firm: 
    (a) is registered or licensed and qualified to practice 
such profession in a state or country to which the board grants 
registration or licensure by comity in accordance with the 
provisions of section 326.10, subdivision 1, clause (2); and 
    (b) shall have filed an application for licensure as an 
architect or, an engineer, or a certified interior designer 
shall have paid the fee provided for in section 326.10, and 
shall have been notified by the board that the applicant meets 
the requirements for licensure or certification in this state 
and is entitled to receive a license or certificate; 
    (c) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (b) and 
prior to the notification provided for therein, an applicant who 
meets the requirements of paragraph (a) shall be permitted to 
practice in this state provided that such practice is limited 
solely to solicitation of work within the terms of sections 
326.02 to 326.15; 
    (2) Practice as an architect, an engineer, a land surveyor, 
or a landscape architect, or use of the title certified interior 
designer by any person not a resident of, and having no 
established place of business in, this state, as a consulting 
associate of an architect, an engineer, a land surveyor, or a 
landscape architect, or use of the title certified interior 
designer licensed or certified under the provisions of sections 
326.02 to 326.15; provided, the nonresident is licensed or 
certified and qualified to practice the profession in a state or 
country to which the board grants licensure or certification by 
comity in accordance with the provisions of section 326.10, 
subdivision 1, clause (2); 
    (3) Practice as an architect, an engineer, a land surveyor, 
or a landscape architect, or use of the title certified interior 
designer solely as an officer or employee of the United States. 
    Sec. 20.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 326.14, is 
amended to read: 
    326.14 [CORPORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS AUTHORIZED.] 
    A corporation, partnership or other firm may engage in work 
of an architectural or engineering character, in land surveying 
or in landscape architecture, or use the title of certified 
interior designer in this state, provided the person or persons 
connected with such corporation, partnership or other firm in 
responsible charge of such work is or are licensed or certified 
as herein required for the practice of architecture, 
engineering, land surveying, and landscape architecture, and use 
of the title of certified interior designer. 
    Sec. 21.  [EXISTING INTERIOR DESIGNERS.] 
    Persons who on July 1, 1992, are in the business of 
interior design and who have filed a certification application 
with the board by September 1, 1993, shall be allowed to 
continue in that business and use the title certified interior 
designer as if certified under this act until final action is 
taken by the board on their application. 
    Sec. 22.  [REVISOR'S INSTRUCTION.] 
    The revisor of statutes shall, in Minnesota Statutes and 
Minnesota Rules, change the words "board of architecture, 
engineering, land surveying, and landscape architecture" or 
similar words to "board of architecture, engineering, land 
surveying, landscape architecture, and interior design" or 
similar words. 
    Presented to the governor April 17, 1992 
    Signed by the governor April 27, 1992, 1:46 p.m.