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the setting of grades and determining drainage and providing for
standard drainage structures, and the consideration STORM DRAIN-
AGE SYSTEMS WHERE SUCH SYSTEMS DO NOT REQUIRE
THE HYDRAULIC DESIGN OR STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF
SYSTEM COMPONENTS AND ARE RESTRICTED TO THE USE
WHERE RELEVANT OF ANY STANDARDS AS MAY BE PRE-
SCRIBED BY LOCAL OR STATE AUTHORITIES, and determina-
tion of environmental problems of land including erosion, blight and
other hazards. This practice shall include the design of such tangible
objects and features as are incidental and necessary to the purposes
outlined herein AND AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY LOCAL OR
STATE AUTHORITIES but shall not include the design of structures
or facilities with separate and self-contained purposes such as are
ordinarily included in the practice of engineering or architecture;
and shall not include the making of land surveys or final plats for
official approval or recordation. Nothing contained herein shall pre-
clude a duly licensed landscape architect from performing any of
the services described in the first sentence of this subsection in
connection with the settings, approaches or environment for build-
ings, structures, or facilities. Nothing contained in this subtitle shall
be construed as authorizing a landscape architect to engage in the
practice of architecture, engineering, or land surveying as these
terms are defined in this Article, and any other applicable sections
of this Code.

272.    Landscape Architecture License Required.

In order to safeguard public welfare, health and property and to
promote public good, any person practicing or offering to practice
landscape architecture, privately or in public service, shall be re-
quired to submit evidence that he is qualified to practice and shall
become registered as hereinafter provided. It shall be unlawful for
any person to practice landscape architecture or to use the term or
title "Landscape Architect" unless duly licensed under the provisions
of this subtitle.

273.    Requirements for License.

For licensing as a landscape architect, evidence must be submitted
that the applicant:

(1)  Is at least twenty-one years of age;

(2)  Has, before admission to the examination, completed the
course of study in and been graduated from a college or school of
landscape architecture approved by the Board. He shall also submit
before admission to the examination evidence of actual practical
experience in landscape architectural work of a grade and character
satisfactory to the Board. Each complete year of study in such ap-
proved college or school of landscape architecture may be accepted
in lieu of one year of such experience, and the applicant must submit
evidence of sufficient additional acceptable experience to total six
years of combined education and experience. In lieu of graduation
from an accredited APPROVED college or school of landscape archi-
tecture, and the practical experience in addition thereto, an appli-
cant may be admitted to the examination upon presenting evidence
of at least eight years of actual, practical experience in landscape
architectural work of a grade and character satisfactory to the
Board.