PURPOSE: This rule requires all applicants for an architectural, professional engineering, or professional landscape architectural license, other than nonresident or resident military spouses exempt under section 324.009(2), RSMo, to pass a state specific examination covering Chapter 327, RSMo, the board rules, and ethics before being issued a license to practice.

1. (1) Before an architect, professional engineer, or professional landscape architect can be licensed to practice in Missouri, he or she must pass an examination on Chapter 327, RSMo, board rules, and ethics.
2. (2) The purpose of the examination is to ensure that applicants are familiar with the act regulating the professions of architects, professional engineers, and professional landscape architects and the ethics of practicing architecture, professional engineering, or professional landscape architecture. This is an open book examination administered online, at no cost to the applicant, via the board’s website.
3. (3) Any applicant for examination and licensure as an architect, professional engineer, or professional landscape architect failing to make a passing grade on the examination may have unlimited opportunities to retake the examination so long as the applicant remains qualified to be examined.
4. (4) An applicant achieves a passing grade with a score of eighty percent (80%).
5. (5) Nonresident or resident military spouses, eligible for licensure under section 324.009, RSMo, are not required to take the state examination in this section.

AUTHORITY: section 327.041, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed May 30, 2018, effective Dec. 30, 2018. Amended: Filed Dec. 10, 2020, effective June 30, 2021. *Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014.