Ark. Code Ann. § 17-15-301 (2020)
License required
In order to safeguard life, health, and property, no person shall practice architecture in this state, or engage in preparing plans, specifications, or preliminary data for the erection or alteration of any building located within the boundaries of this state, or use the title “architect”, or display or use any title, sign, card, advertisement, or other device to indicate that the person practices or offers to practice architecture, or is an architect, unless the person shall have secured from the Arkansas State Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers a certificate of registration and license in the manner hereinafter provided and shall thereafter comply with the provisions of this chapter governing the registration and licensing of architects.
History. Acts 1941, No. 270, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 71-302.
Case Notes
Corporations.
Building corporation could not be authorized to practice architecture in Arkansas where the name of architect licensed to practice in Arkansas did not appear in the name of the corporation and where the architect was not in fact a principal but an employee. Ark. State Bd. of Architects v. Bank Bldg. & Equip. Corp., 225 Ark. 889, 286 S.W.2d 323 (1956).
Building corporation, by furnishing the services of architects to its customers, was engaging in the practice of architecture. Ark. State Bd. of Architects v. Bank Bldg. & Equip. Corp., 225 Ark. 889, 286 S.W.2d 323 (1956).
Practicing Architecture Without License.
A civil engineer was properly found to have practiced architecture without a license where he offered to provide architectural/engineering design services for a courthouse, he attended a quorum court meeting to make a presentation for architectural design work, and prepared a color rendering of the proposed courthouse project. Although the engineer asserted that he never intended to do the architectural work himself and intended that it be done by a licensed architect, he had no firm agreement with a licensed architect at the time he offered to provide architectural/engineering design services. Ark. State Bd. of Architects v. Hawkins, 69 Ark. App. 250, 12 S.W.3d 253 (2000).
The mere fact that an engineer engaged in the planning and design of a building was not enough to prove that the engineer engaged in unauthorized practice of architecture. Holloway v. State Bd. of Architects, 79 Ark. App. 200, 86 S.W.3d 391 (2002), aff'd in part, reversed in part, 352 Ark. 427, 101 S.W.3d 805 (2003).
Cited: Holloway v. Ark. State Bd. of Architects, 352 Ark. 427, 101 S.W.3d 805 (2003).