# Title 8 — Architecture, Board of

## Article 8-02 — Practice of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

## Chapter 8-02-04 — Practice in the Public Interest

### § 8-02-04-01. Practice in the public interest.

An architect or landscape architect shall always practice with the health, safety, and welfare
interests of the public taking precedence over all other considerations.
History: Amended effective February 1, 2005.
General Authority: NDCC 43-03-08
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-03-08
### § 8-02-04-02. Responsibility to clients.

Drawings and other instruments of service shall be clear, accurate, and complete for the purpose
intended, namely, to provide the client the information required in making a decision. Indefinite,
ambiguous, or incomplete drawings and specifications, particularly those intended for use as
construction documents, are unfair to all persons concerned and detrimental to the public and to the
profession. Such practice may be considered a justifiable cause for suspension or revocation of
registration.
General Authority: NDCC 43-03-08
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-03-08
### § 8-02-04-03. Due care.

An architect or landscape architect shall exercise due care and diligence in all aspects of the
architect's or landscape architect's practice in order to safeguard the client and the public insofar as
possible against inconvenience or loss due to errors or omissions. An architect or landscape architect
shall at all times maintain close control over all services for which the architect or landscape architect is
contractually responsible, including those assigned to consultants.
History: Amended effective February 1, 2005; January 1, 2014.
General Authority: NDCC 43-03-08
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-03-08
### § 8-02-04-04. Limitations of practice - Use of consultants.

An architect or landscape architect shall assume only those duties and responsibilities which are
normally considered as architectural or landscape architectural services, and shall not offer or perform
services which are normally, and by law, required to be performed by other professions. An architect or
landscape architect is expected to employ consultants for any services when, in the architect's or
landscape architect's judgment, they will be performed more competently by consultants, and it is in the
client's and the public's interests. An architect or landscape architect also shall be expected to exercise
careful judgment in the architect's or landscape architect's selection of consultants, in order to provide
the best possible services, for which the architect or landscape architect will be held responsible.
History: Amended effective February 1, 2005.
General Authority: NDCC 43-03-08
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-03-08
