Section 310-A:160 Exemptions.
Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to prevent or affect:
   I. The preparation of details and shop drawings by persons, other than landscape architects, for use in connection with the execution of their work.
   II. The preparation of plans, drawings, and specifications for and the supervision of the construction or alteration of landscape design associated with farms, residences, or institutional or commercial uses, where the client or reviewing governmental entity does not require the stamp of a licensed landscape architect.
   III. Supervision by builders, or superintendents employed by such builders, of the installation of landscape projects.
   IV. Business conducted in this state by any agriculturist, horticulturist, tree expert, arborist, forester, wetland scientist, certified professional in erosion and sediment control, natural scientist, soil scientist, nurseryman or landscape nurseryman, gardener, landscape gardener, landscape designer, landscape contractor, irrigation contractor, irrigation designer, garden or lawn caretaker, or grader or cultivator of land, as these terms are generally used, except that no such person shall use the designation ""landscape architect,'' ""landscape architectural,'' or ""landscape architecture'' unless licensed as a landscape architect under this article.
   V. The practice of architecture by an architect licensed in this state, or the practice of professional engineering or land surveying by a professional engineer or land surveyor licensed in this state, or the preparation of wetland mitigation plans by a wetland scientist, natural scientist, or soil scientist, provided that no such architect, professional engineer, wetland scientist, natural scientist, soil scientist, or land surveyor shall use the designation ""landscape architect,'' ""landscape architectural,'' or ""landscape architecture'' unless licensed as a landscape architect in this state.
   VI. The practice of landscape architecture by officers and employees of the United States while engaged within the state in the practice of landscape architecture for the federal government.
   VII. Professional engineers, when engaged in the lawful practice of engineering under RSA 310-A, from performing engineering work which could be defined in this subdivision as within the practice of the profession of landscape architecture.
Source. 2006, 246:3, eff. July 1, 2006.