The State Landscape Contractors Board may license without examination any person who is a landscape construction professional licensed, certified or registered under the laws of another state, territory of the United States, the District of Columbia or another country where the requirements on the date the applicant was licensed, certified or registered were substantially equal to the requirements for licensing of landscape construction professionals in this state on the date of application by the person. [1971 c.764 § 9; 1973 c.832 § 30; 1975 c.757 § 6; 1979 c.840 § 5; 1983 c.452 § 10; 2007 c.541 § 23]