WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                      Ch. 422

CHAPTER 422

(Senate Bill 1008)

AN ACT concerning

Architects - Architectural Partnerships

FOR the purpose of clarifying existing requirements for
architectural partnerships by requiring that architectural
limited partnerships have two-thirds of the "general"
partners registered or licensed under the laws of any state
to practice any one of the design professions
architecture, engineering, or landscape architecture.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 470

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 56 - Licenses

470.

(a)  A corporation or partnership, as such, may not be
licensed or registered to practice architecture. The use of any
form of the title "architect" in connection with the corporate or
partnership name shall be approved by the Board.

(b)  The right to engage in the practice of architecture is
a personal right, based upon the qualifications of the individual
evidenced by his registration certificate and is not
transferable. All final drawings, specifications, plans,
reports, or other papers or documents involving the practice of
architecture, as defined in § 464 of this subtitle, when issued,
or filed for public record, shall be dated, and bear the
signature and seal of the architect or architects who prepared or
approved them.

(c)  Nothing in subsections (a) and (b) of this section
shall be construed to prevent the formation of partnerships and
corporations as a vehicle for the practice of architecture
subject to the following conditions:

(1) The practice of or offer to practice architecture
for others as defined in § 464 of this subtitle by individual
architects registered under this subtitle through a corporation

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