62-2-302. Board members examining and voting on applicants.

*** Current through the 2015 Regular Session ***

Title 62  Professions, Businesses and Trades
Chapter 2  Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers
Part 3  Qualification and Registration Generally

Tenn. Code Ann. § 62-2-302 (2016)

62-2-302.  Board members examining and voting on applicants.

  (a)  (1) In determining the qualifications of applicants for registration as architects, a majority vote of the architect members of the board only shall be required.

   (2) In determining the qualifications of applicants for registration as engineers, a majority vote of the engineer members of the board only shall be required.

   (3) In determining the qualifications of applicants for registration as landscape architects, the one (1) landscape architect board member and one (1) architect or engineer board member only shall be required.

   (4) In determining the qualifications of applicants for registration as registered interior designers, the registered interior designer board member and one (1) architect, engineer or landscape architect board member only shall be required; provided, that for the first registered interior designer board member no such vote shall be required.

(b)  (1) Applicants for registration as architects shall be examined by architect members of the board only and applicants for registration as engineers shall be examined by the engineer members of the board only.

   (2) Applicants for registration as landscape architects shall be examined by the landscape architect member and one (1) architect and engineer member of the board.

   (3) Applicants for registration as registered interior designers shall be examined by the registered interior designer member and one (1) architect and engineer member of the board.

(c) In the event the board denies issuance of a certificate to an applicant, no refund of any part of the application fee shall be returned by the board to the applicant.

(d) For purposes of this section, the member of the board appointed under the authority of § 62-2-201(b) is not a voting member of the board.

HISTORY: Acts 1979, ch. 263, § 22; T.C.A., § 62-222; Acts 1988, ch. 990, § 16; 1991, ch. 164, §§ 21, 22; 1997, ch. 33, §§ 11, 12.

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