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326.02 LICENSURE OR CERTIFICATION.
<br />Subdivision 1.Licensure or certification mandatory.In order to safeguard life, health, and property,
<br />and to promote the public welfare, any person in either public or private capacity practicing, or offering to
<br />practice, architecture, professional engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, or professional
<br />geoscience, or using the title certified interior designer in this state, either as an individual, a copartner, or
<br />as agent of another, shall be licensed or certified as hereinafter provided. It shall be unlawful for any person
<br />to practice, or to offer to practice, in this state, architecture, professional engineering, land surveying,
<br />landscape architecture, or professional geoscience, or to use the title certified interior designer, or to solicit
<br />or to contract to furnish work within the terms of sections 326.02 to 326.15, or to use in connection with
<br />the person's name, or to otherwise assume, use or advertise any title or description tending to convey the
<br />impression that the person is an architect, professional engineer (hereinafter called engineer), land surveyor,
<br />landscape architect, professional geoscientist (hereinafter called geoscientist), or certified interior designer,
<br />unless such person is qualified by licensure or certification under sections 326.02 to 326.15. This subdivision
<br />does not preclude an individual who retired from one of the professions listed in this subdivision from using
<br />the designation architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect, professional geoscientist,
<br />or certified interior designer as long as the designation is preceded by the word "retired" and the individual
<br />was licensed or certified in the designated profession in the state of Minnesota on the date the individual
<br />retired from the designated profession and the individual's license or certification was not subsequently
<br />revoked by the Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience,
<br />and Interior Design.
<br />Subd. 2.Practice of architecture.Any person shall be deemed to be practicing architecture, within the
<br />meaning of sections 326.02 to 326.15, who holds out as being able to perform or who does perform any
<br />professional service, such as planning, design, or supervision of construction for the purpose of assuring
<br />compliance with specifications and design, in connection with any private or public buildings, structures or
<br />projects, or the equipment or utilities thereof, or the accessories thereto, wherein the safeguarding of life,
<br />health, or property is concerned or involved, when such professional service requires the application of the
<br />art and science of construction based upon the principles of mathematics, aesthetics, and the physical sciences,
<br />acquired by education or training, and by experience. For the purposes of this subdivision "supervision" is
<br />a professional service as distinguished from superintending of construction and means the performance or
<br />the supervision thereof, of reasonable and ordinary on the site observations to determine that the construction
<br />is in substantial compliance with the approved drawings, plans and specifications.
<br />Subd. 3.Practice of professional engineering.(a) Any person shall be deemed to be practicing
<br />professional engineering within the meaning of sections 326.02 to 326.15 who holds out as being able to
<br />perform or who does perform any technical professional service, such as planning, design or observation of
<br />construction for the purpose of assuring compliance with specifications and design, in connection with any
<br />public or private structures, buildings, utilities, machines, equipment, processes, works, or projects wherein
<br />the public welfare or the safeguarding of life, health, or property is concerned or involved, when such
<br />professional service requires the application of the principles of mathematics and the physical and applied
<br />engineering sciences, acquired by education or training, and by experience.
<br />(b) No person other than one licensed under sections 326.02 to 326.15 as a professional engineer may:
<br />(1) use the term "professional engineer";
<br />(2) use any other abbreviation or term, including the initials "P.E." or "PE" by signature, verbal claim,
<br />sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, or similar means that would lead the public to believe that the person
<br />was a professional engineer; or
<br />Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
<br />Revisor of Statutes
<br />326.02MINNESOTA STATUTES 20221
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