Sec. 1. (a) As used in this chapter, "board" means the board of registration for architects and landscape architects as established under IC 25-4-1-2.

(b) As used in this chapter, "landscape architecture" means the practice of professional services such as consultation, investigation, reconnaissance, research, planning, design, or responsible supervision to develop land areas for the dominant purpose of preserving, enhancing, or determining:

(1) proper land uses;

(2) natural land features;

(3) ground cover and planting;

(4) naturalistic and aesthetic values;

(5) the settings and approaches to structures or other improvements;

(6) the natural environment of a facility, an individual building, or other structure;

(7) site specific natural surface and subsoil drainage systems;

(8) landscape grading, swales, curbs, and walkways; and

(9) any inherent problems of the land relating to erosion, overuse, blight, or other hazards.

The term includes the location and arrangement of the proposed tangible objects and features that are incidental and necessary to accomplish the purposes of landscape architecture.

(c) As used in this chapter, "practitioner" means an individual registered as a landscape architect under this chapter.

(d) Except as provided in subsection (b), this chapter does not authorize a practitioner to:

(1) engage in the design of mechanical lift stations, sewage treatment facilities, sanitary and combined sewers, storm water management projects, public, semi-public, and private utilities, or other structures or facilities with separate and self-contained purposes, if the design work is ordinarily included in the practice of architecture or engineering;

(2) engage in the design of highways or traffic control devices;

(3) engage in the scientific analysis of hazardous material contamination;

(4) engage in topographic mapping or the certification of land surveys or final land plats for official approval or recording;

(5) otherwise engage in the practice of architecture (as defined in IC 25-4-1);

(6) otherwise engage in the practice of professional engineering (as defined in IC 25-31);

(7) engage in the practice of surveying (as defined in IC 25-21.5); or

(8) engage in the practice of professional geology (as defined in IC 25-17.6).

(e) This chapter, except section 10(a)(1) and 10(a)(2) of this chapter, does not apply to:

(1) the practice of landscape architecture by any person who acts under the supervision of a practitioner or by an employee of a person lawfully engaged in the practice of landscape architecture and who, in either event, does not assume responsible charge of design or supervision;

(2) the practice of architecture or land planning and proper land usage by a duly registered professional architect or the doing of landscape architectural work by a registered architect or by an employee under the supervision of a registered architect;

(3) the practice of engineering or land planning and proper land usage by a duly registered professional engineer and the doing of landscape architectural work by a registered professional engineer or by an employee under supervision of a registered professional engineer;

(4) the practice of surveying or land planning and proper land usage by a professional surveyor and the doing of landscape architectural work by a professional surveyor or by an employee under supervision of a professional surveyor;

(5) the practice of landscape architecture by employees of the United States government while engaged within this state in the practice of landscape architecture for the United States government;

(6) the practice of planning as is customarily done by regional, park, or urban planners;

(7) the practice of arborists, foresters, gardeners, turf managers, home builders, horticulturists, farmers, and other similar persons;

(8) the practice of any nurseryman or general or landscape contractor, including design, planning, location, planting and arrangements of plantings or other ornamental features; or

(9) the practice of natural resource professionals, including biologists, geologists, or soil scientists.

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.225, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.242-1985, SEC.3; P.L.23-1991, SEC.11; P.L.82-2000, SEC.13; P.L.57-2013, SEC.31.