Bill Text: NY A03446 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Regulates the practice of certified interior design including the use of proper seals and construction documents.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-13 - print number 3446a [A03446 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A03446-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3446--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, COOK, CRESPO, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, McDO- NOUGH, MONTESANO, RIVERA, SKOUFIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, KEARNS, MARKEY, MILLER, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High- er Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the practice of certi- fied interior design; and repealing certain provisions of such law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 8302 of the education law is REPEALED and a new 2 section 8302 is added to read as follows: 3 § 8302. Special provisions: seals; authorization to submit 4 construction documents. 1. (a) The board shall prescribe, by rule, one 5 or more forms of seals to be used by certified interior designers hold- 6 ing valid licensure under this article. 7 (b) Each certified interior designer shall obtain one seal in the form 8 approved by rules of the board. All original construction documents and 9 instruments of service including drawings, plans, specifications, or 10 reports prepared or issued by the certified interior designer or by a 11 full-time or part-time subordinate employed under his or her super- 12 vision, and being filed with public officials shall bear the signature, 13 date and seal of the certified interior designer who prepared or 14 approved the document and the date on which they were sealed. 15 (c) No certified interior designer shall affix, or permit to be 16 affixed, his or her seal or signature to any plan, specification, draw- 17 ing, or other document which depicts work which he or she is not compe- 18 tent or licensed to perform. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02234-03-6A. 3446--A 2 1 (d) No certified interior designer shall affix his or her signature or 2 seal to any plans, specifications, or documents which were not prepared 3 by him or her or under his or her responsible supervising control or by 4 another certified interior designer and reviewed, approved or modified 5 and adopted by him or her as his or her own work according to rules 6 adopted by the board. 7 2. Notwithstanding provisions of law to the contrary, a certified 8 interior designer with a valid license or limited permit under this 9 article may submit sealed, stamped construction documents and instru- 10 ments of service within their definition of practice to any official of 11 this state or any city, town or county charged with enforcement of laws, 12 ordinances, or regulations. No official of this state or of any county, 13 city, town or village therein, charged with the enforcement of laws, 14 ordinances or regulations relating to certified interior design prac- 15 tices, shall reject or deny any plans or specifications for the sole 16 reason that they are stamped: 17 (a) with the seal of a certified interior designer registered in this 18 state and bearing the authorized facsimile of the signature of such 19 certified interior designer; or 20 (b) with the official seal and authorized facsimile of the signature 21 of a certified interior designer not a resident of this state, but who 22 is legally qualified to practice as such in his or her own state or 23 country, provided that such person holds a limited permit issued by the 24 department, and provided further that the plans or specifications are 25 accompanied by and have attached thereto written authorization issued by 26 the department for the specific project. 27 3. To all plans, specifications, construction documents and instru- 28 ments of service to which the seal of a certified interior designer has 29 been applied, there shall also be applied a stamp with appropriate word- 30 ing, warning that it is a violation of this law for any person, unless 31 he or she is acting under the direction of a certified interior design- 32 er, to alter them in any way. If an item bearing the seal of a certified 33 interior designer is altered, the altering certified interior designer 34 shall affix to the item his or her seal and the notion "altered by" 35 followed with his or her signature and the date of such alteration, and 36 a specific description of the alteration. 37 4. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to authorize a 38 certified interior designer to submit plans, specifications, 39 construction documents and instruments of service that are outside of 40 the definition of practice of interior design as described in section 41 eighty-three hundred three of this article. 42 5. Nothing contained in article one hundred forty-five or article one 43 hundred forty-seven of this title shall be construed to prevent a certi- 44 fied interior designer from submitting plans, specifications, 45 construction documents and instruments of service that are within the 46 definition of practice of interior design, as described in section 47 eighty-three hundred three of this article, to any official of this 48 state or of any county, city, town or village. 49 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 50 have become a law.
