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Missouri Laws and Rules for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects


Quiz Questions

1. It is against the law, Any person who practices architecture, engineering, land surveying, or landscape architecture, as defined in sections 327.011 to 327.635, or who holds himself or herself out as able to practice such profession and who is not the holder of a currently valid license or certificate of authority in Missouri, and who is not exempt from holding such a license or certificate, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
True
False
2. When reviewing complaints against unlicensed persons, the board may initiate an investigation and take all measures necessary to find the facts of any potential violation, including issuing subpoenas to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the disclosure of evidence, and may request the attorney general to bring an action to enforce the subpoena
True
False
3. Practice of architecture defined. 1. The practice of architecture is the rendering of or offering to render services in connection with the design and construction of public and private buildings, structures and shelters, site improvements, in whole or part and including any additions or alterations thereto, as well as to the spaces within and the site surrounding such buildings and structures, which have as their principal purpose human occupancy or habitation. The services referred to include consultation, design surveys, feasibility studies, evaluation, planning, aesthetic and structural design, preliminary design, drawings, specifications, technical submissions, and other instruments of service, the administration of construction contracts, construction observation and inspection, and the coordination of any elements of technical submissions prepared by others, including professional engineers, landscape architects, and other consultants that pertain to the practice of architecture. A person shall be considered to be practicing architecture when such person uses the title "architect" or the terms "architect" or "architecture" or "architectural" alone or together with any words other than "landscape" to indicate or imply that such person is or holds himself or herself out to be an architect. Only a person with the required architectural education, practical training, relevant work experience, and licensure may practice as an architect in Missouri.
True
False
4. Practice as professional engineer defined use of titles, restrictions. 1. Any person practices in Missouri as a professional engineer who renders or offers to render or holds himself or herself out as willing or able to render any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to such services or creative work as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning and design of engineering works and systems, teaching of advanced engineering subjects or courses related thereto, design surveys and studies, the design coordination of services furnished by engineers and other consultants as they relate to engineering work, construction observation and the inspection of construction for the purpose of compliance with drawings and specifications, any of which embraces such service or work either public or private, in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems or projects and including such architectural work as is incidental to the practice of engineering; or who uses the title "professional engineer" or "consulting engineer" or the word "engineer" alone or preceded by any word indicating or implying that such person is or holds himself or herself out to be a professional engineer, or who shall use any word or words, letters, figures, degrees, titles or other description indicating or implying that such person is a professional engineer or is willing or able to practice engineering.
True
False
5. Professional engineers ____________________ of all engineering design of buildings, structures, products, machines, processes, and systems that can affect the health, safety, and welfare of the public within their scope of practice.
Shall be in responsible charge
Shall not be in responsible charge
6. Any person who renders engineering services in connection with the construction, remodeling, or repairing of a dwelling house or Multiple family dweling house, flat, or apartment need to have a PE license.
True
False
7. Any applicant to be eligible for a license must make a grade on each examination of at least
70%
80%
75%
8. Recording of certain documents not properly executed by land surveyor, prohibited penalty. 1. It shall be unlawful for the recorder of deeds of any county, or the clerk of any city or town, or the clerk or other proper officer of any school, road, drainage, or levee district or other political subdivision of this state, to file or record any map, plat or survey which has been prepared by a person other than a professional land surveyor and which does not have impressed thereon, and affixed thereto, the personal seal and signature of the professional land surveyor by whom or under whose authority and supervision the map, plat or survey was prepared. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of
a class C misdemeanor
A felony
9. The right to practice as an architect or to practice as a professional engineer or to practice as a professional land surveyor or to practice as a professional landscape architect shall be deemed a personal right, based upon the qualifications of the individual, evidenced by such individual’s professional license and
Cannot be transferable
Can be transferable
10. Each architect and each professional engineer and each professional land surveyor and each professional landscape architect shall have a personal seal in a form prescribed by the board, and he or she shall affix the seal to all final technical submissions. Technical submissions shall include, but are not limited to, drawings, specifications, plats, surveys, exhibits, reports, and certifications of construction prepared by the licensee, or under such licensee’s immediate personal supervision. Such licensee shall either prepare or personally supervise the preparation of all documents sealed by the licensee, and such licensee shall be held personally responsible for the contents of all such documents sealed by such licensee, whether prepared or drafted by another licensee or not.
True
False