§ 7327. Special provisions. 1. Every landscape architect shall have a
seal, approved by the board, which shall contain the name of the
landscape architect and either the words "Registered Landscape
Architect" and such other words or figures as the board may deem
necessary. All working drawings and specifications prepared by such
landscape architect relating to the setting, approaches or environment
for structures or other improvements or under the supervision of such
landscape architect, shall be stamped with such seal and signed on the
original, with the personal signature of such landscape architect when
filed with public officials, or with the official seal and personal
signature of a landscape architect granted a limited permit under
section seventy-three hundred twenty-five of this article when such
drawings and specifications are accompanied by a written authorization
from the department for the specific project concerned.

2. Engineers, land surveyors, geologists, architects and landscape
architects may join in the formation of a joint enterprise, or a
partnership or a professional service corporation or a design
professional service corporation or may form any desired combination of
such professions and may use in the name of such corporation the title
of any of the professions which will be practiced. After the name of
each member his or her profession shall be indicated.

3. A firm name may be continued by employees having at least fifteen
years of continuous service if the retired members and legal
representatives of deceased members consent to such continuance.

4. It shall be lawful for a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the state of New York, and which on or before the first day
of April nineteen hundred sixty-one was legally incorporated to practice
landscape architecture, while conforming to the provisions of this
title, and which has been continuously engaged in such practice since
such time to continue such practice provided that the chief executive
officer of such corporation in the state of New York shall be a
landscape architect licensed under this article, and provided further
that the supervision of such projects shall be under the personal
supervision of such landscape architect and that such plans and designs
shall be prepared under the personal direction and supervision of such
landscape architect and bear the stamp of his official seal, and such
drawings or specifications shall also be signed on the original, with
the personal signature of such landscape architect. No such corporation
shall be permitted to change its name and continue to practice landscape
architecture, except upon the written approval of the department.