§1173. Corporate authority

A. An architectural-engineering corporation licensed by the State Board of Architectural Examiners and licensed by the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board may offer and provide architectural services and engineering services in this state.

B.(1) In order to become licensed to practice architecture and to practice engineering, such a corporation on an annual basis shall file with the State Board of Architectural Examiners and with the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board written requests for such licensure, designating therein the supervising professional architect who shall perform all professional architectural services or who shall directly supervise the performance of all architectural services by said corporation, and further designating the supervising professional engineer who shall perform all professional civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering services or those services in any other discipline of professional engineering which the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board and the State Board of Architectural Examiners may jointly specify, or who shall directly supervise the performance of all such engineering services by said corporation.

(2) Only those persons may be designated as supervising professional architects or engineers who previously have been licensed by the State Board of Architectural Examiners pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 37:141 et seq., or who previously have been licensed by the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board and listed as practicing civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering or any other discipline of professional engineering that the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board may specify pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 37:681 et seq., who are in compliance with said provisions, who are full-time active employees of the corporation and whose primary occupation is with that corporation.

C. The corporation shall authorize such licensed supervisory professional architects or engineers to appear for and act on behalf of the corporation in connection with the execution and performance of all contracts to provide architectural services and civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering services and those of any other discipline of professional engineering which the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board may specify.

D. In the event that such licensed supervisory professional architect ceases to become a full-time active employee of the corporation or is no longer employed by the corporation on a primary basis, the authority of the corporation thereafter to practice architecture is suspended until such time as the corporation designates another supervising professional architect pursuant to Subsection B hereof.

E. In the event that such licensed supervisory professional engineer ceases to become a full-time active employee of the corporation or is no longer employed by the corporation on a primary basis, the authority of the corporation thereafter to practice engineering in the disciplines of civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering or any other discipline of professional engineering which the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board may specify, is suspended until such time as the corporation designates another supervising professional engineer pursuant to Subsection B hereof.

Added by Acts 1983, No. 465, §1, eff. July 6, 1983; Acts 2003, No. 279, §2.