1997 Minnesota Statutes

     326.13 Practice exempt. 

    Practice of architecture, engineering, landscape 
 architecture, land surveying, or geoscience, 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, an engineer, a geoscientist, 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, 
 a landscape architect, or geoscientist, 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, a landscape architect, or a geoscientist, 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, 
 a landscape architect, or a geoscientist, or use of the title 
 certified interior designer solely as an officer or employee of 
 the United States; 

    (4) Practice as a geoscientist by a person who would be 
 qualified under sections 326.02 to 326.15 by virtue of 
 experience and education while (i) engaged in exploration, 
 development, extraction, and reclamation of minerals and mineral 
 deposits or energy resources including sand, gravel, peat, 
 industrial minerals, metallic minerals, iron ore, coal, oil, and 
 gas and other mineral fuels; (ii) an employee of a corporation 
 or agency engaged in such exploration, development, extraction, 
 and reclamation of minerals and mineral deposits; (iii) acting 
 in accordance with the provisions of section 82B.035, 
 subdivision 3; 103I.205, subdivision 4; or 103I.601, subdivision 
 2; or (iv) engaged in academic geoscience research. 

    HIST: (5697-13) 1921 c 523 s 13; 1933 c 404 s 4; 1971 c 22 s 
 7; 1975 c 329 s 18; 1976 c 222 s 150; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 1 s 34; 
 1986 c 444; 1992 c 507 s 19; 1995 c 206 s 26