LARE SECTION 1: INVENTORY, ANALYSIS & PM
Project Manager - Answers - Qualified individual or firm authorized by the owner to be
responsible for coordinating time, equipment, money, task and people for all portions of
a project.
LA's duties usually don't include : - Answers - 1. Traffic / Road / Paving engineering
2. Utility design
3. Study & engineering of Hydrological management of stormwater systems
4. Making of final plats
5. Service / function within arch, engineering, or public surveying
Allied professionals - Answers - Other state registered professions that are most similar
to the LA practice (ex. Licensed architect, PE, surveyors, planners and interior design)
building inspector - Answers - -Assist builders, contractors and owners by ensuring that
construction projects meet building regulations and codes of practice
-Make on-site inspections during building work, checking that proper methods and
materials are used which is reported to proper authority
contractor - Answers - An individual or company licensed to perform a define scope of
work on a construction project and agrees to furnish labor, materials, equipment and
association services to perform the work for a specified price
General Contractor - Answers - responsible for the execution, supervision and overall
coordination of a project and may also perform some of the individual construction
tasks. Most general contractors are not licensed to perform all specialty trades and must
hire specialty contractors for such tasks, e.g. electrical, plumbing.
Specialty Contractor - Answers - licensed to perform a specialty task e.g. electrical, side
sewer, asbestos abatement.
subcontractor - Answers - Works for another general contractor
Trade Contractor - Answers - Specializes in providing/installing specific elements of the
overall construction requirements of a project
Licensure - Answers - Refers to state licensing of individuals who have successfully met
education, training and formal examination requirements that indicate their competency
to professionally practice LA
, License - Answers - Gives the legal right to practice in the certification area and a legal
responsibility for the work projects
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB) - Answers - A
coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams
and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Title Act - Answers - -No unqualified individual may call themselves a LA
-An individual may still perform the work of a Landscape architect but not identify
themselves as a landscape architect
Practice Act - Answers - Prohibits an unqualified individual from calling themselves a LA
and from practicing the profession; strongest form of regulation to ensure the protection
of the public health, safety, and welfare
Sunset Law Reviews - Answers - "Sunset" involves the periodic review of state
agencies that exercise the state's regulatory authority over occupations. Agencies are
terminated by specified dates unless their life is extended by legislative action.
Reciprocal Licensure - Answers - -Policy which acknowledges and accepts credentials
awarded by another authority or jurisdiction
- Allows a landscape architect to serve a client in another state
Public statement, reports, and testimony (MAY DO) - Answers - You can express a
professional opinion publicly on a landscape architectural subject only when that opinion
is founded upon adequate knowledge of the material facts and a background of
technical competence in the subject matter
Public statement, reports, and testimony (MAY NOT DO) - Answers - You can't give
reports or make statements or expert testimony on landscape arch matters connected w
public policy if the remarks are inspired or paid for by an interested party
-be deceptive / misleading
-precede any remarks made without the following:
-identification
-disclosure of identity if party on behalf the remarks are being offered
Reasons for license to be revoked - Answers - -getting license via fraud etc
-misconduct in practice of LA
-any professional misconduct thru bylaws of the board
-practicing LA w an expired license or under suspension
-practicing under fake name
-having a felony
-defrauding anyone employing him as a LA by false statement
-affixing or permitting the licensees seal or name to any plans, specs, drawings or docs
which weren't prepared by the licensee or under his or her responsible supervisory
control
Project Manager - Answers - Qualified individual or firm authorized by the owner to be
responsible for coordinating time, equipment, money, task and people for all portions of
a project.
LA's duties usually don't include : - Answers - 1. Traffic / Road / Paving engineering
2. Utility design
3. Study & engineering of Hydrological management of stormwater systems
4. Making of final plats
5. Service / function within arch, engineering, or public surveying
Allied professionals - Answers - Other state registered professions that are most similar
to the LA practice (ex. Licensed architect, PE, surveyors, planners and interior design)
building inspector - Answers - -Assist builders, contractors and owners by ensuring that
construction projects meet building regulations and codes of practice
-Make on-site inspections during building work, checking that proper methods and
materials are used which is reported to proper authority
contractor - Answers - An individual or company licensed to perform a define scope of
work on a construction project and agrees to furnish labor, materials, equipment and
association services to perform the work for a specified price
General Contractor - Answers - responsible for the execution, supervision and overall
coordination of a project and may also perform some of the individual construction
tasks. Most general contractors are not licensed to perform all specialty trades and must
hire specialty contractors for such tasks, e.g. electrical, plumbing.
Specialty Contractor - Answers - licensed to perform a specialty task e.g. electrical, side
sewer, asbestos abatement.
subcontractor - Answers - Works for another general contractor
Trade Contractor - Answers - Specializes in providing/installing specific elements of the
overall construction requirements of a project
Licensure - Answers - Refers to state licensing of individuals who have successfully met
education, training and formal examination requirements that indicate their competency
to professionally practice LA
, License - Answers - Gives the legal right to practice in the certification area and a legal
responsibility for the work projects
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB) - Answers - A
coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams
and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Title Act - Answers - -No unqualified individual may call themselves a LA
-An individual may still perform the work of a Landscape architect but not identify
themselves as a landscape architect
Practice Act - Answers - Prohibits an unqualified individual from calling themselves a LA
and from practicing the profession; strongest form of regulation to ensure the protection
of the public health, safety, and welfare
Sunset Law Reviews - Answers - "Sunset" involves the periodic review of state
agencies that exercise the state's regulatory authority over occupations. Agencies are
terminated by specified dates unless their life is extended by legislative action.
Reciprocal Licensure - Answers - -Policy which acknowledges and accepts credentials
awarded by another authority or jurisdiction
- Allows a landscape architect to serve a client in another state
Public statement, reports, and testimony (MAY DO) - Answers - You can express a
professional opinion publicly on a landscape architectural subject only when that opinion
is founded upon adequate knowledge of the material facts and a background of
technical competence in the subject matter
Public statement, reports, and testimony (MAY NOT DO) - Answers - You can't give
reports or make statements or expert testimony on landscape arch matters connected w
public policy if the remarks are inspired or paid for by an interested party
-be deceptive / misleading
-precede any remarks made without the following:
-identification
-disclosure of identity if party on behalf the remarks are being offered
Reasons for license to be revoked - Answers - -getting license via fraud etc
-misconduct in practice of LA
-any professional misconduct thru bylaws of the board
-practicing LA w an expired license or under suspension
-practicing under fake name
-having a felony
-defrauding anyone employing him as a LA by false statement
-affixing or permitting the licensees seal or name to any plans, specs, drawings or docs
which weren't prepared by the licensee or under his or her responsible supervisory
control
