327.600. As used in sections 327.600 to 327.635, the following terms mean:
(1) "Landscape architecture", the performance of professional services, including but not limited to consultations, research, planning, design or responsible supervision in connection with the development of land, in which the dominant purpose of such professional services is the preservation, enhancement or determination of land uses, natural land features, ground cover and planting, naturalistic and esthetic value, settings and approaches to structures or other improvements, natural drainage and the consideration and determination of inherent problems of the land relating to erosion, wear and tear, blight or other hazard;
(2) "Practice of landscape architecture", the location and arrangement of such tangible objects and features as are incidental and necessary to the purposes specified in the definition of landscape architecture, but shall not include the design of structures or facilities with separate and self-contained purposes such as are ordinarily included in the practice of engineering or architecture, and shall not include the making of final land plats for official approval or recording.
(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al. § 1, A.L. 2001 H.B. 567)
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