New York Laws
Article 148 - Landscape Architecture
7326 - Exempt Persons.

§ 7326. Exempt persons. This article shall not be construed to affect
or prevent:

a. The preparation of details and shop drawings by persons, other than
landscape architects, for use in connection with the execution of their
work;

b. Employees of those lawfully practicing as landscape architects
under the provisions of this article from acting under the instruction,
control or supervision of their employers;

c. Supervision by builders, or superintendents employed by such
builders, of the installation of landscape projects; or

d. Business conducted in this state by any agriculturist,
horticulturist, tree expert, arborist, forester, nurseryman or landscape
nurseryman, gardener, landscape gardener, landscape contractor, garden
or lawn caretaker or grader or cultivator of land, as these terms are
generally used, except that no such person shall use the designation
landscape architect, landscape architectural or landscape architecture
unless licensed under this article.

e. Employment of any person as a junior or assistant landscape
architect by the City of New York in a position the title of which was
approved and in use as of July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one,
provided such person acts under the general supervision of a licensed
landscape architect.

f. The practice of architecture by an architect licensed in this
state, or the practice of engineering or land surveying by an engineer
or land surveyor licensed in this state, provided that no such
architect, engineer or land surveyor shall use the designation
"landscape architect," "landscape architectural" or "landscape
architecture" unless licensed as a landscape architect in this state.