O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-23-12 (2019)

Investigations; censure of licensees; revocation or suspension of licenses

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The board may, upon its own motion, and shall, upon the complaint in writing of any person, initiate investigations into the actions of any licensed landscape architect and shall have the power to censure the licensee or to revoke or suspend any license issued under this chapter whenever the board concludes that the licensee has violated any provision of this chapter or whenever the board has determined that the licensee:

(1) Has obtained a license by false or fraudulent representations;

(2) Has impersonated another landscape architect or former landscape architect with the same or similar name, or is practicing under an assumed or misleading name, to include practicing under a partnership, limited liability company, or corporate name in which any person who is not a landscape architect is named;

(3) Has aided or abetted an unlicensed person in the practice of landscape architecture;

(4) Has been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude;

(5) Has, in the practice of landscape architecture, been guilty of fraud, deceit, negligence, or incompetence;

(6) Has affixed his or her signature to plans, drawings, specifications, or other instruments of service which have not been prepared by him or her or under his or her immediate and responsible direction or has permitted his or her name to be used for the purpose of assisting any person who is not a landscape architect to evade the provisions of this chapter; or

(7) Has violated the provisions of subsection (a) of Code Section

History

Ga. L. 1958, p. 400, § 13; Code 1933, § 84-4017, enacted by Ga. L. 1976, p.

1730, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 430, § 3; Ga. L. 1993, p. 123, § 41.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Hearsay in proceeding for suspension or

revocation of license to conduct business or profession, 142 A.L.R. 1388.