SECTION 55:10-11-7. Professional conduct  


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  •   An Architect, Landscape Architect or Entity shall preserve the confidences of the client or employer. A Licensee or Entity may make contributions of service or anything of value to those endeavors which he/she/it deems worthy. A Licensee or Entity has the right to participate in the political process and to contribute time and money to political campaigns. In making political contributions, the Licensee or Entity shall do so publicly.
    (1)   Each office maintained for the preparation of drawings, specification, reports or other professional work shall have a Licensee in that office having Responsible Control of the work.
    (2)   A Licensee shall not sign or seal drawings, specifications, reports or other professional work for which he/she does not have Responsible Control. Prototypical plans are an exception to the rule as noted in OAC 55: 10-11-9(e) (f).
    (3)   A Licensee or Entity shall neither offer nor make any gifts, other than gifts of nominal value including, for example, reasonable entertainment and hospitality, with the intent of influencing the judgment of an existing or prospective client in connection with a project in which the Licensee or Entity is interested. Intent of influence means influence, direct or indirect, which induces or tends to induce consideration or action with respect to any prospective work on any basis other than the merits of the matter.
    (4)   A Licensee or Entity shall not engage directly or indirectly an agent or representative to solicit work on his/her/its behalf whose compensation is contingent, in whole or in part, upon obtaining professional work for the Entity, Architect or Landscape Architect.
    (5)   A Licensee or Entity shall not make false statements about the professional work, or maliciously injure or attempt to injure the prospects, practice or employment position of others.
    (6)   A Licensee or Entity shall not furnish limited services in such a manner as to enable owners, draftsmen, or others to evade public health and safety requirements.
    (7)   A Licensee or Entity provides a service to the client, as well as a product and/or drawings and as such is only responsible for the design of the facility represented by the products and/or drawings he or she completed, signed, sealed and dated for a specific client and location. Should the client or any other individual modify or change locations of the facility or make changes to the design without the authorization of the Licensee, the Licensee is only responsible and liable for the project as he/she signed, sealed and dated it and the site at the original location. A Licensee is allowed to review and adapt documents already sealed by the original Licensee when modifying the plan and/or bringing the plan up to the current code requirements at the same location as the original site. In this case, the Licensee is required to sign, seal and date only the modifications to the original documents and shall only be responsible for his/her new modifications.
    (8)   Nothing contained in 55:10-11-7-(7) shall apply to prototype plans, where the Licensee is allowed to review and adapt a prototypical technical submission, making changes to adapt in whole or in part to a different location and/or bring the plan up to the current code requirements. In this case, the Licensee is required to sign, seal and date the adapted, integrated documents and the licensee assumes full responsibility for the documents, in their entirety, as if fully prepared by or under the licensed architect's responsible control.
[Source: Amended at 16 Ok Reg 1333, eff 5-27-99; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2555, eff 7-15-02; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 815, eff 5-11-07; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 815, eff 5-11-07; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 771, eff 4-27-09; Amended at 29 Ok Reg 921, eff 7-1-12; Added at 31 Ok Reg 788, eff 9-13-14; Amended at 37 Ok Reg 1006, eff 9-11-20]