In order to safeguard life, health and property and to promote the public welfare, the professions of architecture and landscape architecture are declared to be subject to regulation in the public interest. It is unlawful for any person to practice or offer to practice architecture or landscape architecture in this state, as defined in the provisions of the State Architectural and Registered Interior Designers Act, use in connection with the person's name, or otherwise assume the title of architect, landscape architect or registered interior designer, or advertise any title or description tending to convey the impression that the person is a licensed architect or landscape architect or registered interior designer unless the person is duly licensed or exempt from licensure or registration under the State Architectural and Registered Interior Designers Act. The practice of architecture and landscape architecture and the use of the titles architect, landscape architect and registered interior designer are privileges granted by the state through the Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Interior Designers of Oklahoma based upon the qualifications of the individual as evidenced by a certificate of licensure or registration which shall not be transferable.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 347, § 2, emerg. eff. April 16, 1947. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 287, § 2, operative July 1, 1986. Renumbered from Title 59, § 45.2 by Laws 1986, c. 287, § 30, operative July 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 220, § 1, eff. July 1, 1998; Laws 2006, c. 163, § 2, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2006, c. 193, § 1, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 184, § 2, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2014, c. 234, § 2, eff. July 1, 2014.