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TITLE 22EXAMINING BOARDS
PART 1TEXAS BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL EXAMINERS
CHAPTER 3LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
SUBCHAPTER GCOMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT
RULE §3.124Business Registration

(a) A Landscape Architecture firm or other business entity that offers or provides landscape architectural services in Texas must annually register information regarding the firm or business entity with the Board, including an email address to which all TBAE correspondence will be sent.

(b) A Landscape Architect or a Landscape Architecture firm which enters into an agreement to create a business association pursuant to §3.122 of this title (relating to Association) shall annually register the association with the Board, including an email address to which all TBAE correspondence will be sent.

(c) If a Landscape Architecture firm, business entity, or association dissolves or otherwise becomes unable to lawfully offer or provide Landscape Architecture services in Texas, the Landscape Architecture firm, business entity, or association shall so notify the Board in writing. Such notification must be postmarked or otherwise provided within 30 days of the date of dissolution or the date the Landscape Architecture firm, business entity, or association became unable to lawfully offer or provide Landscape Architecture services. Such a Landscape Architecture firm, business entity, or association may not continue to offer or provide Landscape Architecture services unless it employs or contracts with a Landscape Architect to offer or provide service and updates its registration within that 30 day period.

(d) A Landscape Architect who is a sole practitioner doing business under his/her name, which is registered with the Board, is exempt from the requirements of subsections (a) - (c) of this section.

(e) Each registered Landscape Architecture firm, business entity, or association shall annually renew its unexpired registration and pay a renewal fee not later than the anniversary of the date of its initial registration. Each registered Landscape Architecture firm, business entity, and association shall pay a registration renewal fee to renew an expired registration in an amount equal to 1-1/2 times the normally required renewal fee if the registration has been expired for 90 days or less and in an amount equal to twice the normally required renewal fee if the registration has been expired for longer than 90 days. A firm, business entity, or association which offers or renders two or more professional disciplines regulated by the Board shall pay a single registration fee.


Source Note: The provisions of this §3.124 adopted to be effective February 27, 2001, 26 TexReg 1718; amended to be effective February 12, 2003, 28 TexReg 1176; amended to be effective September 19, 2006, 31 TexReg 7993; amended to be effective April 17, 2012, 37 TexReg 2633

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