# Title 8 — Architecture, Board of

## Article 8-03 — Partnerships, Corporations, Group Practice

## Chapter 8-03-01 — Individual Responsibility

### § 8-03-01-01. Registration granted to individuals.

Under North Dakota Century Code chapter 43-03, registration is granted to a person. Accordingly,
registration cannot be granted to a firm, corporation, or other entity.
General Authority: NDCC 43-03-08
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-03-09
### § 8-03-01-02. Requirements for practice by firms.

In any firm, control of the firm's architectural or landscape architectural practice shall be always the
sole responsibility of the architect or landscape architect principals, in order for the firm to legally
perform architectural or landscape architectural services or offer them to the public. Similarly,
membership in a firm shall in no way be permitted to remove, or reduce, an architect's or landscape
architect's responsibilities to the public, as an individual registered to practice architecture or landscape
architecture.
History: Amended effective February 1, 2005.
General Authority: NDCC 43-03-08
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-03-08, 43-03-10
### § 8-03-01-03. Prohibited types of firms.

Any firm in which the control is vested in persons who are not registered as architects or landscape
architects, or in which control can be transferred to unregistered persons, is prohibited from practicing,
or offering to practice, architecture or landscape architecture in North Dakota.
History: Amended effective February 1, 2005.
General Authority: NDCC 43-03-08
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-03-08, 43-03-10
