Subdivision 1.Revocation or suspension.

The board shall have the power to revoke or suspend the license or certificate of any architect, engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect, geoscientist, or certified interior designer, who is found guilty by the board of any fraud or deceit in obtaining a license or certificate, or of attaching the licensee’s or certificate holder’s seal or signature to any plan, specification, report, plat, or other architectural, engineering, land surveying, landscape architectural, geoscientific, or interior design document not prepared by the person signing or sealing it or under that person’s direct supervision, or of gross negligence, incompetency, or misconduct in the practice of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, geoscience, or interior design, or upon conviction of any violation of sections 326.02 to 326.15 or amendments thereof, or of any crime involving moral turpitude or upon adjudication of insanity or incompetency.

Subd. 2.

Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 326.11

  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
  • seal: includes an impression thereof upon the paper alone, as well as an impression on a wafer, wax, or other substance thereto attached. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44

[Repealed, 1976 c 222 s 209]

Subd. 3.

[Repealed, 1976 c 222 s 209]

Subd. 4.

[Repealed, 1976 c 222 s 209]

Subd. 5.Reissuance.

The board may reissue a license to any person whose license has been suspended or revoked upon application for relicensure.

Subd. 6.Replacement.

A new license to replace any license revoked, lost, destroyed, or mutilated, may be issued, subject to the rules of the board.