As used in this chapter:

(1) “Board” means the State Board of Landscape Architects appointed under the provisions of section 20-368;

(2) “The practice of landscape architecture” means rendering or offering to render the service of site planning, which may involve and encompass the design or management of land, the arrangement of natural and artificial elements, including, but not limited to, grading and incidental drainage, soil and erosion control, and planting plans, and the determination and consideration of inherent problems of the land relating to natural and artificial forces with concern for resource conservation in accordance with accepted professional standards of public health, safety and welfare, such service to be rendered to clients by consultation, investigation, reconnaissance, research, planning, specification, design or periodic observation; but does not include the physical implementation of such service, including, but not limited to, the actual on-site performance of grading, drainage, soil and erosion controls and planting work normally performed by builders, general contractors and subcontractors; and

(3) “Landscape architect” means a person who holds a license to practice landscape architecture in this state under the authority of this chapter.

(1967, P.A. 748, S. 1; P.A. 78-246, S. 1; P.A. 82-241, S. 1, 11; 82-472, S. 95, 183; P.A. 97-174, S. 1; P.A. 98-3, S. 52.)

History: P.A. 78-246 redefined “practice of landscape architecture”, replacing “choice of location” with “design or management of land”, replacing “natural forms and features” with “natural and artificial elements” and requiring concern for resource conservation; P.A. 82-241 amended section to change term “certificate” to “license”; P.A. 82-472 subdivided the section; P.A. 97-174 amended the definition of “the practice of landscape architecture” in Subdiv. (2); P.A. 98-3 made a technical change in Subdiv. (1).