N.Y. Education Law § 7327: Special provisions

§ 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.