Section 8.04. Offers to perform services shall be truthful.

  When offering to perform professional services, an architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer or professional land surveyor:

(1)  Shall accurately and truthfully represent to a prospective client or employer the capabilities and qualifications which the registrant or licensee has to perform the services to be rendered.

(2)  Shall represent the costs and completion times of a proposed project to a client or prospective client as accurately and truthfully as is reasonably possible.

(3)  May not offer to perform, nor perform, services which the registrant or licensee is not qualified to perform by education or experience without retaining the services of another who is qualified.

(4)  May not use advertising or publicity which is fraudulent or deceptive.

(5)  May not represent that he or she is engaged in a partnership or association with another unless there exists in fact a partnership or association.

(6)  May not collect a fee for recommending the services of another unless written notice is first given to all parties concerned.

(7)  May not practice under a firm name that misrepresents the identity of those practicing in the firm or misrepresents the type of services which the individuals, firm or partnership is authorized and qualified to perform.

History: Cr. Register, February, 1987, No. 374 , eff. 3-1-87; am. (intro.), Register, June, 1995, No. 474 , eff. 7-1-95; am. (1) to (6), Register, January, 1999, No. 517 , eff. 2-1-99; am. (intro.), Register, February, 2000, No. 530 , eff. 3-1-00; CR 15-036 : am. (intro.), (1), (3) Register January 2016 No. 721 , eff. 2-1-16 .