443.16 Change of name. No person may practice architecture, landscape architecture, professional engineering, or interior design in this state under any other given name or any other surname than that under which the person was originally licensed or registered to practice in this or any other state, in any instance in which the examining board, after a hearing, finds that practicing under the changed name operates to unfairly compete with another practitioner or to mislead the public as to identity or to otherwise result in detriment to the profession or the public. This section does not apply to a change of name resulting from marriage or divorce.
History: 1979 c. 98 s. 1; 1979 c. 167 s. 20; 1979 c. 337 s. 15; 1979 c. 355; 1993 a. 463, 465, 491; 1997 a. 300; 2009 a. 123; 2021 a. 195.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
443.015 - Examining board to establish continuing education requirements; promulgate rules.
443.02 - Practice requirements and registration: general provisions.
443.03 - Registration requirements for architects.
443.035 - Registration requirements for landscape architects.
443.04 - Registration requirements for professional engineers.
443.05 - Certification of engineers-in-training.
443.06 - Licensure requirements for professional land surveyors.
443.07 - Permit requirements: designers of engineering systems.
443.075 - Registration requirements for interior designers.
443.08 - Registration requirement: firms, partnerships and corporations.
443.10 - Applications, certificates, licenses, rules, and roster.
443.12 - Disciplinary proceedings against professional land surveyors.
443.13 - Disciplinary proceedings against designers of engineering systems.
443.134 - Exception for photogrammetry and construction surveying.
443.17 - Seal or stamp; aiding unauthorized practice.