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481.203 Definitions. As used in this part:

(3) "Architect" or "registered architect" means a natural person who is licensed under this part to engage in

the practice of architecture.

(6) "Architecture" means the rendering or offering to render services in connection with the design and

construction of a structure or group of structures which have as their principal purpose human habitation or

use, and the utilization of space within and surrounding such structures. These services include planning,

providing preliminary study designs, drawings and specifications, job site inspection, and administration of

construction contracts.

(8) "Interior design" means designs, consultations, studies, drawings, specifications, and administration

of design construction contracts relating to nonstructural interior elements of a building or structure.

"Interior design" includes, but is not limited to, reflected ceiling plans, space planning, furnishings, and

the fabrication of nonstructural elements within and surrounding interior spaces of buildings. "Interior

design" specifically excludes the design of or the responsibility for architectural and engineering work,

except for specification of fixtures and their location within interior spaces. As used in this subsection,

"architectural and engineering interior construction relating to the building systems" includes, but is

not limited to, construction of structural, mechanical, plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, ventilating,

electrical, or vertical transportation systems, or construction which materially affects life-safety systems

pertaining to fire-safety protection such as fire rated separations between interior spaces, fire rated

vertical shafts in multistory structures, fire rated protection of structural elements, smoke evacuation and

compartmentalization, emergency ingress or egress systems, and emergency alarm systems.

481.229 Exceptions; exemptions from licensure.

(1) No person shall be required to qualify as an architect in order to make plans and specifications for, or

supervise the erection, enlargement, or alteration of:

(a) Any building upon any farm for the use of any farmer, regardless of the cost of the building;

(b) Any one-family or two-family residence building, townhouse, or domestic outbuilding appurtenant

to any one-family or two -family residence, regardless of cost; or

(c) Any other type of building costing less than $25,000, except a school, auditorium, or other building

intended for public use, provided that the services of a registered architect shall not be required for

minor school projects pursuant to s. 1013.45.

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of this part or of any other law, no registered engineer whose principal

practice is civil or structural engineering, or employee or subordinate under the responsible supervision

or control of the engineer, is precluded from performing architectural services which are purely incidental

to his or her engineering practice, nor is any registered architect, or employee or subordinate under the

responsible supervision or control of such architect, precluded from performing engineering services which

are purely incidental to his or her architectural practice. However, no engineer shall practice architecture or

use the designation "architect" or any term derived there from, and no architect shall practice engineering

or use the designation "engineer" or any term derived there from."