81-8,184 Terms, defined.
81-8,184. Terms, defined.As used in sections 81-8,184 to 81-8,208, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) Professional landscape architect shall mean a person, who, by reason of his knowledge acquired by professional education or practical experience, or both, is qualified to practice landscape architecture as provided in sections 81-8,184 to 81-8,208;(2) The practice of professional landscape architecture shall mean the performance of professional services such as consultations, investigations, reconnaissance, research, planning, design, or responsible supervision in connection with projects involving the arranging of land and the elements thereon for public and private use and enjoyment, 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 subsoil drainage, erosion control, planting, reforestation, and the preservation of the natural landscape and aesthetic values, in accordance with accepted professional standards of public health, welfare and safety. This practice shall include the location and arrangement of such tangible objects and features as are incidental and necessary to the purposes outlined herein but shall not include the design of structures or facilities with separate and self-contained purposes for habitation or industry, or the design of public streets and highways, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers, and sewage treatment facilities, such as are ordinarily included in the practice of engineering or architecture; and shall not include the making of land surveys or final land plats for official approval or recording. Nothing contained in sections 81-8,184 to 81-8,208 shall preclude a duly licensed landscape architect from performing any of the services described in the first sentence of this subdivision in connection with the settings, approaches or environment for buildings, structures or facilities. Nothing contained in sections 81-8,184 to 81-8,208 shall be construed as authorizing a landscape architect to engage in the practice of architecture, engineering, or land surveying; Provided, that nothing in sections 81-8,184 to 81-8,208 shall prohibit any persons, firm or corporation, their officers, agents or employees, from preparing planting plans for plant materials in connection with the sale of nursery stock, plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, sod, or other plant material, outdoor decorative ornaments, seed, fertilizer, chemicals, gardening tools and equipment, and related items of merchandise or the propagation, planting or growth of any indoor or outdoor plants; and(3) Board shall mean the State Board of Landscape Architects created by the provisions of sections 81-8,184 to 81-8,208. SourceLaws 1967, c. 565, § 1, p. 1860; Laws 1971, LB 98, § 1.