The State Architectural and Registered Interior Designers Act shall not require the licensing or registration of practitioners of the following professions and occupations to practice landscape architecture:

1. A professional civil engineer, as defined in Section 475.2 of this title, certified to practice the profession in this state under any act to regulate the practice of that profession. Nothing contained in the State Architectural and Registered Interior Designers Act shall be construed as precluding an architect or engineer from performing services included within the definition of "landscape architecture" when incidental, meaning less than ten percent (10%) of the total project cost, to the performance of his or her normal practice as an architect or engineer;

2. A landscape contractor building or installing what was designed by a landscape architect;

3. An agriculturist, horticulturist, forester as defined in Section 1202 of this title, nursery operator, gardener, landscape gardener, garden or lawn caretaker and grader or cultivator of land involved in the selection, placement, planting and maintenance of plant material;

4. Persons who act under the supervision of a licensed landscape architect or an employee of a person lawfully engaged in the practice of landscape architecture and who, in either event, does not assume responsible charge of design or supervision;

5. Regional planners or urban planners, who evaluate and develop land-use plans to provide for community and municipal projections of growth patterns based on demographic needs;

6. A landscape designer or contractor whose business is choosing types of plants, planning their location and the design of landscapes for those projects or whose work is limited to projects for a single-family residential home. Landscape design or installation work may also be performed by an owner or occupant on the single-family residence of the owner or occupant;

7. Persons other than landscape architects who prepare details and shop drawings for use in connection with the execution of their work; and

8. Builders or their superintendents in the supervision of landscape architectural projects.

Added by Laws 1980, c. 314, § 14, eff. July 1, 1980. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 287, § 20, operative July 1, 1986. Renumbered from Title 59, § 45.27 by Laws 1986, c. 287, § 32, operative July 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 77, § 2, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws 2006, c. 163, § 20, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 184, § 18, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2014, c. 234, § 17, eff. July 1, 2014.