LSBAE Laws and Rules Quiz

Upon licensure, each architect must obtain a seal that conforms to the size and design specified in the rules of the Board.

Credit will be allowed for continuing education hours only in the following subjects:

A person is entitled to practice architecture in the State of Louisiana upon:

Unlicensed persons possessing a degree in architecture cannot advertise themselves as an architect, but they can use the term graduate architect if they are only engaged in residential design.

A licensed architect decides to allow the architect’s membership in the American Institute of Architects to expire. The architect forgets that “AIA” is listed with the architect’s credentials on the architect’s website, business cards, and title block. Under the laws and rules of the Board, the Board might consider this representation a deceptive or false statement and discipline the architect for such.

A licensed architect is fired by his client prior to the completion of a project. The client refuses to return the licensee’s sealed drawings to him and, instead, gives them to another licensed architect hired to wrap up the project. Because the first architect was fired by the client, the second architect is not required to obtain approval from him before removing his seal and using the drawings to complete the project.

An architecture firm fails to renew its certificate of authority by the renewal deadline and its certificate of authority expires. Several months later, the firm’s designated supervising professional architect realizes what has happened, and the firm submits a reinstatement application to the Board. Even though the firm provided architectural services on sixteen architecture projects during the time its certificate of authority was expired, the supervising professional architect asserts on the firm’s reinstatement application that the firm did not practice architecture during that time. Because those architectural services were provided under the responsible charge of the supervising professional architect, the Board has no authority to take disciplinary action against the firm.

Licensees may accept the responsibility for, review, revise, sign, and seal drawings when such drawings are begun by unlicensed draftspersons not working under their direct supervision as long as those draftspersons also provide the calculations and specifications used in creating the drawings.

Which of the following is an architect’s primary duty?

An individual who has earned a professional degree in architecture from a NAAB-accredited school, but has not been licensed by the Board, is allowed design education buildings that do not exceed which of the following gross floor areas?

If an architect does not receive a license renewal notification, the architect:

If an architect admits to, or is found by the Board to be guilty of, a violation of one or more provisions of the Louisiana Architect Licensing Law, which of the following aggravating circumstances may the Board consider when deciding the discipline to be imposed ?

A person designing a 3,500 sq. ft. office building must be licensed by the Board as an architect.

In order to qualify for the examination, an applicant must present satisfactory evidence to the Board that he:

When the Board receives a complaint against an architect, a copy of the complaint is provided to the respondent even though the identity of the complainant is thereby disclosed.

An unlicensed individual is prohibited from performing an energy consumption analysis.

Licensed architects may allow others to use their Louisiana architect seal if no fees are assessed for such use.

An architect who has complied with all of the current laws of Louisiana relating to the practice of architecture has a right to engage in activities properly classifiable as professional engineering insofar as such engineering work is necessarily incidental to the practice of architecture.

An architect may be subject to disciplinary action by the Board if he is disciplined in any other U.S. jurisdiction.

A licensed architect is not allowed to engage in activities properly classifiable as professional engineering under any circumstances.

A disciplinary or enforcement hearing can be held by the Board for alleged violations of the Board’s laws or rules committed by any licensee or certificate holder, as well as non-licensees and non-certificate holders.

While engaged in a Louisiana-based project, a licensee prepared a set of documents that included drawings, specifications, and other related documents. However, the licensee inadvertently allowed the licensee’s Louisiana architectural license to expire before those documents could be finalized. How should this licensee finalize those documents?

The laws and rules of the Board require that an architect’s seal contain only the name of the architect and an image of the Louisiana state flag.

In which of the following circumstances are licensees allowed to accept compensation from a material supplier in return for endorsing the supplier’s products:

Licensees who are granted “emeritus” status may still practice architecture but are not required to continue earning continuing education hours as long as their practice is limited to renovations of existing structures.