Evaluation—Comity Applications—Professional Landscape Architects

PURPOSE: This rule ensures that an applicant for licensure by comity meets the equivalent requirement for licensure in Missouri. (1) Any person applying for licensure as a professional landscape architect under section 327.381, RSMo, who was licensed in another state, territory, or possession of the United States or in another country and has a degree in landscape architecture from an accredited school of landscape architecture, or who possesses an education which in the opinion of the board equals or exceeds the education received by a graduate of an accredited school, and who has acquired at least three (3) years of satisfactory landscape architectural experience and has taken and passed all sections of the landscape architectural registration examination administered by the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) may apply for licensure by comity. (2) Within six (6) months of an application for licensure by comity from a person, or within thirty (30) days of an application for licensure by comity from a nonresident or resident military spouse, who meets the following criteria, the board shall waive the requirement of passing the landscape architectural registration examination (LARE) administered by CLARB if it finds that the applicant: (A) Holds a current license as a professional landscape architect in another state, possession, or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, and has held such license for a period of one (1) year; (B) Has not had a license as a professional landscape architect revoked by any oversight body; (C) Is not currently under investigation, is not the subject of any complaint pending, or is not currently under disciplinary action with any oversight body outside this state; (D) Holds a license in good standing with an oversight body outside the state; (E) Does not have a criminal record that would disqualify him or her for licensure in Missouri; and (F) Holds a valid current license in the jurisdiction upon which the comity application is based on the date the board receives his or her application under this section. (3) The board may require an applicant relying on section (2) to disclose any disciplinary action taken against the applicant by any oversight body in any jurisdiction in the United States, and may deny waiver and defer action or deny an application until such disciplinary action is resolved. (4) No waiver of education or examination requirements granted under section (2) shall relieve any applicant of the requirement to take the Missouri-specific examination mandated by 20 CSR 2030-5.160. Nonresident and resident military spouses applying pursuant to section 324.009.3.(2), RSMo, shall not be required to take the Missouri specific examination mandated by 20 CSR 20305.160. AUTHORITY: section 327.041, RSMo 2016, and section 327.381, RSMo Supp. 2020.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30-4.090. Original rule filed Oct. 30, 2002, effective April 30, 2003. Amended: Filed Sept. 8, 2003, effective March 30, 2004. Amended: Filed Aug. 18, 2005, effective March 30, 2006. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-4.090, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Non-substantive change filed Oct. 21, 2015, published Dec. 31, 2015. Amended: Filed March 30, 2018, effective Sept. 30, 2018. Amended: Filed April 18, 2019, effective Nov. 30, 2019. Amended: Filed Oct. 6, 2020, effective April 30, 2021. *Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014 and Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, AND INSURANCE and Professional Landscape Architects 327.381, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1999, 2001, 2014, 2020.