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Notice of the Effective Date of Rules for the Tennessee State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners
Pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-3-1306(d), you are receiving this notice because you have elected to receive notification by e-mail of certain changes or potential changes to the law applicable to your profession.
The Tennessee State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners considered new rules at a regularly scheduled meeting conducted on February 11, 2016. These rules were filed with the Secretary of State on October 28, 2016, and are effective as of January 26, 2017.
These changes made by these new rules include:
- Amendments to Chapter 0120-01 include:
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A new rule to allow those architects, engineers, and landscape architects registered in other jurisdictions to use their designation so long as they identify the home jurisdiction they are registered in next to the designation;
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A rule allowing registration options in Tennessee for those currently or previously registered in other jurisdictions;
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An amendment to the rule regarding the employment references required of registration applicants; and
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An amendment to a rule to incorporate the Board’s policy regarding inactive status.
- Amendments to Chapter 0120-02 include:
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A rule that adds a registrant’s providing of false testimony or information to the Board as a specific grounds for a finding of misconduct;
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A rule specifying that all registrants working on a project must stamp their portion of the project and that preliminary, draft, or partial plans be marked as such;
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A rule that makes the ranges of civil penalties for violations of the law or rules uniform; and
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A rule that sets the minimum passing score for the law and rules exam at 80%.
- Amendments to Chapter 0120-04 include:
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A rule that adds a registrant’s providing of false testimony or information to the Board as a specific grounds for a finding of misconduct;
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A rule that makes the ranges of civil penalties for violations of the law or rules uniform;
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A rule that sets the minimum passing score for the law and rules exam at 80%; and
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The repealing of the rule that allowed Registration without Examination as an Interior Designer because that process is now obsolete.
- Amendments to Chapter 0120-05 include:
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A rule that allows continuing education credit to be awarded for work on a patent that was granted or authoring accepted licensing examination items;
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Rules limiting the number of professional development hours to be awarded for work on papers, articles, books, patents granted, or licensing examination items; and
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A rule reducing the time a registrant has to make up disallowed professional development hours from 180 days to 90 days after notice from the Board.
A full copy of these rules can be viewed online at http://share.tn.gov/sos/rules_filings/10-19-16.pdf.
If you have any questions or concerns about these proposed rules, please contact:
Elizabeth Goldstein
Assistant General Counsel
(615) 741-3072
Elizabeth.Goldstein@tn.gov
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