323A.010 Definitions for chapter.

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As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1)"Board" means the Kentucky Board of Landscape Architects;

(2)"Landscape architect" means a person who engages in the practice of landscape

architecture as defined in subsection

(3)of this section;

(3)The "practice of landscape architecture" means to render or offer to render any

professional service in connection with the planning of outdoor space involving the

relationships of people, flora and fauna, and facilities, with emphasis on the

function, preservation, conservation, restoration, and enhancement of the physical

environment, by arranging land and water and the elements thereon, including the

alignment of roadways and the location of buildings, service areas, parking areas,

walkways, steps, ramps, pools, and other structures, and the grading of the land,

surface and sub-soil drainage, erosion control, planting, reforestation, and the

preservation of the natural landscape ecology and environment, in accordance with

the accepted professional standard of public health, welfare, and safety. The practice

of landscape architecture shall include the location and arrangement of such

tangible objects and features as are incidental and necessary to the purposes outlined

in this subsection. The practice of landscape architecture shall not include the

design of structures of facilities with separate and self-contained purposes for

habitation or industry, public streets or streets intended for public dedication,

highways, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers, or sewage treatment facilities, if

ordinarily included in the practice of engineering or architecture. Nothing contained

in this subsection shall preclude a duly licensed landscape architect from

performing any of the services described in the first sentence of this subsection in

connection with the setting, approaches, or environment for buildings, structures, or

facilities; and

(4)"Professional services" means the providing of professional landscape architectural

services for compensation. "Professional services" may include consultation,

investigation, reconnaissance, research, planning, design, or responsible

supervision.