CLARB Examinations—Professional Landscape Architects

PURPOSE: This rule adopts the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards’ Landscape Architect Registration Examination (LARE) or its successor. (1) The board adopts the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards’ (CLARB) Landscape Architect Registration Examination (LARE) or its successor as its own. All applications for examination as a professional landscape architect shall be filed with the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Professional Landscape Architects, or a substantially equivalent provider so designated by the board, prior to the established deadline. An applicant must obtain a passing score on each portion of the examination in accordance with CLARB standards. (2) Section (1) shall not apply to any applicant for licensure by comity who received waiver of educational and examination requirements under 20 CSR 2030-4.090(2). AUTHORITY: sections 327.041 and 327.617, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30-5.140. Original rule filed Oct. 30, 2002, effective April 30, 2003. Amended: Filed Sept. 8, 2003, effective March 30, 2004. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-5.140, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Non-substantive change filed Oct. 21, 2015, published Dec. 31, 2015. Amended: Filed May 30, 2018, effective Dec. 30, 2018. 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 327.617, RSMo 1989, amended 2001, 2014. 20 CSR 2030-5.150 Standards for Admission to Examination—Professional Landscape Architects PURPOSE: This rule sets out standards for admission to landscape architectural examinations. (1) A Missouri applicant for licensure shall have a degree in landscape architecture from an accredited school of landscape architecture or a degree deemed equivalent in the opinion of the board. The minimum length of experience required of the applicant, based on education, is at least three (3) years of satisfactory landscape architectural experience after acquiring that degree. Any applicant who meets the educational requirements of section 327.612, RSMo, qualifies for admission to the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards’ (CLARB) Landscape Architect Registration Examination (LARE), or its successor. (2) For the purpose of admission to the examination, satisfactory training and experience shall include: site investigation; selection and allocation of land and water resources for appropriate use; land use feasibility studies; formulation of graphic and written criteria to govern the planning and design of land construction programs; preparation, review, and analysis of master plans for land use and site development; production of overall site plans, grading plans, irrigation plans, planting plans, and related PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS, construction details; specifications; cost estimates and reports for site development; collaboration in the design of roads and site structures with respect to the functional and aesthetic requirements, but not involving structural design or stability; and field observation of land area construction, restoration, and maintenance. AUTHORITY: sections 327.041 and 327.612, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30-5.150. Original rule filed Oct. 30, 2002, effective April 30, 2003. Amended: Filed Sept. 8, 2003, effective March 30, 2004. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-5.150, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Non-substantive change filed Oct. 21, 2015, published Dec. 31, 2015. Amended: Filed April 18, 2019, effective Nov. 30, 2019. *Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014 and 327.612, RSMo 1989, amended 2001, 2014.