1997 Minnesota Statutes

     326.10 Licensure and certification. 

    Subdivision 1.    Issuance.  (a) 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, landscape 
 architect, geoscientist, 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, landscape architects, geoscientists, 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, 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. 

    (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), for one year from the 
 effective date of rules adopted by the board with respect to the 
 discipline of professional geoscience, the board may accept as 
 evidence that the applicant is qualified for licensing in the 
 discipline of professional geoscience:  

    (1) a record of graduation with a baccalaureate degree from 
 a school or college having accreditation defined by the board 
 and a geoscience or associated science curriculum approved by 
 the board; and 

    (2) at least five years of active professional practice in 
 the discipline of professional geoscience as approved by the 
 board. 

    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; 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; 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; and in determining the qualifications of applicants 
 for registration as geoscientists, only the affirmative vote of 
 the two geoscientist members of the board is required. 

    Subd. 2a.    Needs of physically disabled, inclusion in 
 examination.  Examinations for architect, civil structural 
 engineer, 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. 

    Subd. 3.  Repealed, Ex1967 c 28 s 9 

    Subd. 4.  Repealed, 1976 c 222 s 209 

    Subd. 5.    Delayed renewal fee.  The failure on the 
 part of any licensee to renew a license shall not deprive such 
 person of the right of renewal thereafter, but a late renewal 
 fee shall be paid in addition to the renewal fee for each 
 profession. 

    Subd. 6.  Repealed, Ex1967 c 28 s 9 

    Subd. 7.    Engineer-in-training; land 
 surveyor-in-training; landscape architect-in-training; 
 geoscientist-in-training.  (1) An applicant for certification 
 as an engineer-in-training who is a graduate with a bachelor of 
 engineering degree from a school or college having an 
 engineering curriculum accredited by the engineers' council for 
 professional development or whose education, in the opinion of 
 the board, is equivalent thereto, shall receive from the board, 
 upon passing an examination in fundamental engineering subjects, 
 a certificate stating that the applicant has passed such 
 examination and that the applicant's name has been recorded as 
 an engineer-in-training. 

    (2) An applicant for certification as a land 
 surveyor-in-training who has had a minimum of four years of 
 qualifying experience of a character satisfactory to the board, 
 of which a formal education in an accredited engineering or land 
 surveying curriculum may constitute a part thereof, shall 
 receive from the board, upon passing a written examination in 
 the fundamentals of mathematics and the basic principles of land 
 surveying, a certificate stating that the applicant has passed 
 such examination and that the applicant's name has been recorded 
 as a land surveyor-in-training. 

    (3) Any applicant for certification as a landscape 
 architect-in-training who is a graduate with a degree from a 
 school or college having a landscape architecture curriculum 
 accredited by the American Society of Landscape Architects 
 committee on education or who has had equivalent education or 
 experience or a combination thereof of a grade and character 
 acceptable to the board shall receive from the board, upon 
 passing an examination in fundamental landscape architectural 
 subjects, a certificate stating that the applicant has passed 
 that examination and that the applicant's name has been recorded 
 as a landscape architect-in-training. 

    (4) An applicant for certification as a 
 geoscientist-in-training who is a graduate with a baccalaureate 
 degree from a school or college having accreditation defined by 
 the board and a geoscience or associated science curriculum 
 approved by the board, shall receive from the board, upon 
 passing the appropriate examination in fundamental geoscience 
 subjects for the applicant's discipline as approved by the 
 board, a certificate stating that the applicant's name has been 
 recorded as a geoscientist-in-training with the appropriate 
 geoscientist-in-training legend as approved by the board. 

    HIST: (5697-9) 1921 c 523 s 9; 1933 c 404 s 2; 1945 c 380 s 3; 
 1949 c 86 s 3; 1949 c 507 s 1; 1955 c 433 s 1; 1959 c 336 s 1-5; 
 1961 c 519 s 1; Ex1967 c 28 s 4-7; 1971 c 22 s 5; 1971 c 25 s 
 61; 1975 c 329 s 12; 1976 c 222 s 145; 1978 c 483 s 1; 1986 c 
 444; 1992 c 507 s 14-16; 1995 c 206 s 16-18