HAR §16-115-98. Lawful experience

(a) The following may be acceptable lawful experience subject to the evaluation and approval of the board: (1) Field and office training or experience in landscape architecture under the supervision of licensed professional landscape architects; or (2) Teaching in an accredited institution, school, or college of landscape architecture. Maximum experience credit for teaching shall be one year of teaching third, fourth, or fifth year courses. One year of teaching shall be considered to be a total teaching load of twenty semester credit hours or thirty quarter credit hours. The teaching credit can be applied only where minimum full-time lawful experience requirements are more than two years. (b) Lawful experience may only be applied to one profession. For lawful experience to be acceptable, each engagement shall be separate and distinct; dual credit for engagements that overlap shall not be allowed. 115-36 16-115-98 (c) The part-time equivalent of full-time lawful experience shall be calculated as follows: divide the total hours of part-time lawful experience by 173.33 hours to determine the number of months of full-time lawful experience; where: (1) 2,080 hours equals one year of full-time lawful experience; and (2) 2,080 hours divided by the twelve months equals 173.33 hours or one month of full-time lawful experience. (d) Any amount of time in excess of forty hours per week, whether for one or more supervisors, shall be considered full-time experience and shall not be considered part-time experience. (e) Experience in responsible charge may be accepted in lieu of lawful experience in the discretion of the board; provided the applicant possesses experience in responsible charge in the ratio of 2:1 of the required lawful experience. (f) Lawful experience may be compiled only up to the final filing date of the examination. [Eff 8/29/94; am and comp 10/26/01; comp 5/23/13] (Auth: HRS §464-7) (Imp: HRS §§464-7, 464-8) 115-37 Amendments to and compilation of chapter 16-115, Hawaii Administrative Rules, on the Summary page dated April 11, 2013, were adopted on April 11, 2013, following a public hearing held on April 11, 2013, after public notices were given in the Hawaii State and County Public Notices for the City and County of Honolulu, the County of Kauai, the County of Maui and the County of Hawaii on March 10, 2013. These rules shall take effect ten days after filing with the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. /s/ Norman Hong NORMAN HONG, Chairperson Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects APPROVED AS TO FORM: Date: 4/29/13 /s/ Rodney J. Tam Deputy Attorney General APPROVED: Date: 5/8/13 /s/ Keali’i S. Lopez KEALI’I S. LOPEZ, Director Commerce and Consumer Affairs APPROVED AS TO FORM: Date: 5/10/13 /s/ Neil Abercrombie NEIL ABERCROMBIE GOVERNOR State of Hawaii 5/13/13 Filed 115-39