2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
General - Continued
Article 45 - Landscape Architects
§ 12-45-103. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Board" or "state board" means the state board of landscape architects, created in section 12-45-105.

(2) "Director" means the director of the division of professions and occupations in the department of regulatory agencies.

(3) "Division" means the division of professions and occupations in the department of regulatory agencies.

(4) "Habit-forming drug" means a drug or medicine required to be labeled under section 25-5-415, C.R.S., or the "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act", 21 U.S.C. sec. 301 et seq., as a habit-forming drug.

(5) "Infrastructure" means elements of the public domain that support developments such as roads, streets, parks, plazas, and other places that are not privately owned and managed.

(6) "Landscape architect" means a person who engages in the practice of landscape architecture.

(7) "Planning" means preparing layouts and schemes for land areas, infrastructure systems, facilities, or objects. "Planning" includes technical documentation.

(8) (a) "Practice of landscape architecture" means:

(I) The application of landscape architectural higher education, training, and experience as well as required mathematical, physical, and social science skills to consult, evaluate, plan, and design projects and improvements principally directed at the functional and aesthetic uses of land;

(II) Collaboration with architects and engineers during the design of public infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, buildings, and other structures, concerning the functional and aesthetic requirements of the area and project site; or

(III) Assistance in the preparation and administration of construction documents, contracts, and contract offers related to site landscape improvements.

(b) "Practice of landscape architecture" does not include acts exempted by section 12-45-118.

(9) "Substantial gift" means a gift, donation, or other consideration sufficient to influence a person to act in a specific manner. The term does not include a gift of nominal value such as reasonable entertainment or hospitality or an employer's reward to an employee for work performed.

(10) "Supervision" means the actions taken by a landscape architect in directing, personally reviewing, correcting, or approving the work performed by an employee or subcontractor of the landscape architect.