Senate Bill S1834

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the licensing of landscape architects

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S1834 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7326, Ed L

2025-S1834 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certain licensing exemptions for landscape architects.

2025-S1834 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1834 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1834
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  certain  licensing
   exemptions for landscape architects
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 7326 of the education law, as added by chapter  987
 of the laws of 1971, subdivisions e and f as added by chapter 994 of the
 laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
   § 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 build-
 ers, of the installation of landscape projects; [or]
   d.  Business conducted in this state by any agriculturist, horticultu-
 rist, tree expert, arborist, forester, [nurseryman] EMPLOYEE OF A  NURS-
 ERY or [landscape nurseryman] EMPLOYEE OF A NURSERY WHICH GROW TREES AND
 SHRUBS  FOR  LANDSCAPE PURPOSES, 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 archi-
 tect 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,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05312-01-5
 S. 1834                             2

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