§464-5  Limitation upon application of
chapter.  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any person from engaging in
engineering, architectural, or landscape architectural work and undertakings
upon property owned or exclusively controlled or possessed by that person, or
from hiring any person to do the work and undertakings, unless the work and
undertakings involve the safety or health of the public, nor shall anything in
this chapter prevent any person from engaging in land surveying upon property
owned or exclusively controlled or possessed by that person or from hiring any
person to do the work, unless the work involves a common boundary.



Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as
applying to the business conducted in this State by any agriculturist, horticulturist,
tree expert, arborist, forester, gardenshop operator, nursery operator or
landscape nursery operator, gardener, landscape gardener, landscape contractor,
landscape designer, landscape consultant, garden or lawn caretaker, or
cultivator of land, as these terms are generally used, except that no person
shall use the designation "landscape architect", "landscape
architectural", or "landscape architecture" unless licensed
under the provisions of this chapter.



All engineering work, architectural work, and
landscape architectural work in which the public safety or health is involved
shall be designed by and the construction observed by a duly licensed
professional engineer, architect, or landscape architect, respectively. [L
1923, c 227, §10; RL 1925, §3692; am L 1931, c 165, §7; RL 1935, §7033; RL
1945, §7605; RL 1955, §166-5; HRS §464-5; am L 1970, c 85, §§1, 3; am L 1988, c
226, §3; am L 1989, c 210, §7; gen ch 1993]