PURPOSE: This rule adopts the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards’ Uniform National Examination (UNE) or its predecessor/successor and provides standards for admission and sets forth the requirement of passing the plant material examination.

1. (1) An applicant shall have either a degree in landscape architecture from an accredited school of landscape architecture and have acquired at least three (3) years’ satisfactory landscape architectural experience after acquiring that degree, or have eight (8) years’ or more satisfactory training and experience in the practice of landscape architecture to quality for the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards’ (CLARB) Uniform National Examination (UNE), or its predecessor/successor and plant material examination.
2. (2) For the purpose of admission to the examination, satisfactory training and experience shall include: site investigation; selection and allocation of land and water resources for appropriate use; land use feasibility studies; formulation of graphic and written criteria to govern the planning and design of land construction programs; preparation, review and analysis of master plans for land use and site development; production of overall site plans, grading plans, irrigation plans, planting plans and related construction details; specifications; cost estimates and reports for site development; collaboration in the design of roads and site structures with respect to the functional and aesthetic requirements, but not involving structural design or stability; and field observation of land area construction, restoration and maintenance.
3. (3) The council adopts the CLARBs’ UNE or its predecessor/successor as its own. All applications for examination as a landscape architect shall be filed with the Missouri Landscape Architectural Council prior to the deadline established by CLARB or a substantially equivalent examination provider selected by the council. An applicant shall obtain a passing score on each portion of the exami- 4 CSR 196-5

nation in accordance with CLARB standards, or other approved examinations provided.

1. (4) Any applicant taking a national examination prescribed by the council shall also take and pass an examination which demonstrates the applicant’s knowledge of plant materials, native and adapted, to Missouri.

AUTHORITY: sections 327.607 and 327.617, RSMo 1994 and 327.609, RSMo Supp. 1999*. Original rule filed Feb. 15, 1991, effective July 8, 1991. Amended: Filed June 1, 2000, effective Nov. 30, 2000.

*Original authority: 327.607, RSMo 1989, 327.609, RSMo 1984, amend4ed 1993, 1995; 327.617, RSMo 1989.