New Mexico Statutes
Article 24B - Landscape Architects
Section 61-24B-5 - Exemptions. (Repealed effective July 1, 2026.)

A. The following shall be exempt from the provisions of the Landscape Architects Act as long as they do not hold themselves out as landscape architects or use the term "landscape architect" without being registered pursuant to the Landscape Architects Act:
(1) landscape architects who are not legal residents of or who have no established place of business in this state who are acting as consulting associates of a landscape architect registered under the provisions of the Landscape Architects Act; provided that the nonresident landscape architect meets equivalent registration qualifications in the landscape architect's own state or country;
(2) landscape architects acting solely as officers or employees of the United States; and
(3) a person making plans for a landscape associated with a single-family residence or a multifamily residential complex of four units or less except when it is part of a larger complex.
B. Nothing in the Landscape Architects Act is intended to limit, interfere with or prevent a professional architect, engineer or land surveyor from engaging in landscape architecture within the limits of the architect's, engineer's or land surveyor's licensure.
C. Nothing in the Landscape Architects Act is intended to limit, interfere with or prevent the landscape architects in training, drafters, students, clerks or superintendents and other employees of registered landscape architects from acting under the instructions, control or supervision of the landscape architect or to prevent the employment of superintendents on the construction, enlargement or alterations of landscape improvements or any appurtenances thereto or to prevent such superintendents from acting under the immediate personal supervision of landscape architects by whom the plans and specifications of any landscape architectural services were prepared.
History: Laws 1985, ch. 151, § 5; 1999, ch. 272, § 31; 2001, ch. 155, § 3; 2007, ch. 126, § 2.
Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-24B-17 NMSA 1978.
The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, provides that the Landscape Architects Act does not prevent landscape architects in training from acting under the supervision of a landscape architect.
The 2001 amendment, effective June 15, 2001, added the Subsection A designation to the first paragraph and redesignated former Subsections A and B as Paragraphs A(1) and A(2); deleted "or any interstate railroad system; and" from the end of present Paragraph A(2); deleted "landscape designers, land planners, agriculturalists, soil conservationists, agronomists, horticulturists, foresters, tree experts, arborists, gardeners, contract landscape caretakers, landscape nurserymen, graders or contractors, or cultivators of land and any person making plans for property owned by himself" from the beginning of former Subsection C; inserted Paragraph A(3) and the Subsection designations B and C; and deleted "registered" preceding "landscape architect" in two places in present Subsection C.
The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, deleted "resident" following "consulting associates of a" in Subsection A.

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