443.08 (4) (a) 5. No firm, partnership, or corporation may be relieved of responsibility for the conduct or acts of its agents, employees, or officers by reason of its compliance with this chapter, nor may any individual practicing interior design be relieved of responsibility for interior design services performed by reason of his or her employment or relationship with the firm, partnership, or corporation.
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20. 443.08 (4) (b) 5. of the statutes is created to read:
443.08 (4) (b) 5. All final drawings, specifications, plans, reports, or other interior design papers or documents involving the practice of interior design, prepared for the use of a firm, partnership, or corporation, for delivery by it to any person, or for public record within the state shall be dated and bear the signature and seal of the Wisconsin registered interior designer who was in responsible charge of their preparation. This subdivision does not apply to persons exempt under s. 443.14 (3), (4), or (5).
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21. 443.08 (5) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
443.08 (5) (d) No firm, partnership, or corporation may engage in the practice of or offer to practice interior design in this state, or use in connection with its name, or otherwise assume, use, or advertise, any title or description tending to convey the impression that it is engaged in the practice of interior design, nor may it advertise or offer to furnish an interior design service, unless the firm, partnership, or corporation has complied with this chapter.
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22. 443.10 (1) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
443.10 (1) (e) The registered interior designer section may, upon application and payment of the required fee, grant a certificate of registration to use the title “Wisconsin registered interior designer" to a person who is not a resident of and has no established place of business in this state, or who has recently become a resident of this state, if the person holds an unexpired certificate of similar registration issued to the person by the proper authority in any state or territory or possession of the United States or in any country in which the requirements for the registration of interior designers are of a standard not lower than specified in this chapter.
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23. 443.10 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
443.10 (2) (a) Applications for registration or for a certificate of record shall be on forms provided by the department and shall contain statements made under oath showing the applicant's education and detail summary of the applicant's technical work and not less than 5 references, of whom 3 or more shall have personal knowledge of the applicant's architectural, landscape architectural or engineering experience in the case of an application for registration or of the applicant's technical education or engineering work in the case of an application for a certificate of record. This paragraph does not apply to an application for registration as a Wisconsin registered interior designer.
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24. 443.10 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
443.10 (2) (e) The renewal date for certificates of registration for architects, landscape architects, and professional engineers, and Wisconsin registered interior designers is specified under s. 440.08 (2) (a), and the fee for renewal of such certificates is determined by the department under s. 440.03 (9) (a).
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25. 443.10 (4) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
443.10 (4) (am) The registered interior designer section of the examining board shall prepare each year a list showing the names and business addresses of all persons registered as a Wisconsin registered interior designer under this chapter. Upon request, the registered interior designer section shall provide a list prepared under this paragraph to any person at cost.
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26. 443.11 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
443.11 (title) Disciplinary proceedings against architects, landscape architects and, engineers, and registered interior designers.
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27. 443.11 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
443.11 (1) (intro.) The appropriate section of the examining board may reprimand an architect, landscape architect, or professional engineer, or Wisconsin registered interior designer or limit, suspend, or revoke the certificate of registration of any registrant, and the certificate of record of any engineer-in-training, who is found guilty of:
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28. 443.11 (1) (dm) of the statutes is created to read:
443.11 (1) (dm) Any gross negligence or misconduct, or any gross incompetence, in the practice of interior design as a Wisconsin registered interior designer.
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29. 443.16 of the statutes is amended to read:
443.16 Change of name. No person may practice architecture, landscape architecture, or professional engineering, or interior design in this state under any other given name or any other surname than that under which the person was originally licensed or registered to practice in this or any other state, in any instance in which the examining board, after a hearing, finds that practicing under the changed name operates to unfairly compete with another practitioner or to mislead the public as to identity or to otherwise result in detriment to the profession or the public. This section does not apply to a change of name resulting from marriage or divorce.
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30. 443.17 of the statutes is renumbered 443.17 (1).
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31. 443.17 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
443.17 (2) (a) The registered interior designer section of the examining board shall promulgate rules establishing specifications for seals and stamps used by Wisconsin registered interior designers.
(b) No Wisconsin registered interior designer may impress his or her seal or stamp upon a document unless the seal or stamp satisfies the specifications established by rule under par. (a).
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32. 443.17 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
443.17 (3) A Wisconsin registered interior designer who is responsible for preparing an interior technical submission for delivery to any person or for a public record shall date, sign, and impress his or her seal or stamp upon the interior technical submission and any other related documents prepared by the Wisconsin registered interior designer.
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33. 443.17 (4) of the statutes is created to read:
443.17 (4) No Wisconsin registered interior designer may impress his or her seal or stamp upon a document that has not been prepared by the Wisconsin registered interior designer or knowingly permit his or her seal or stamp to be used by any other person.
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34. 443.175 of the statutes is created to read:
443.175 Submission of documents; interior designers. (1) Subject to s. 443.17 (3), a Wisconsin registered interior designer may sign and seal interior technical submissions that are required for an interior alteration or interior construction project for public record.
(2) If a city, village, town, or county requires a seal or stamp on interior technical submissions that are submitted for an interior alteration or interior construction project, the city, village, town, or county shall accept interior technical submissions impressed with the seal or stamp of a Wisconsin registered interior designer consistent with this chapter.
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35. 703.11 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
703.11 (2) (b) A survey of the property described in the declaration complying with minimum standards for property surveys adopted by the examining board of architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, designers and, professional land surveyors, and registered interior designers and showing the location of any unit or building located or to be located on the property.
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36.
Initial applicability.
(1) Registration requirements. The treatment of subch. X of ch. 440 and s. 443.075 first applies to an application submitted on the effective date of this subsection to the registered interior designer section of the examining board of architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, designers, professional land surveyors, and registered interior designers for registration as an interior designer.
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37.
Effective dates. This act takes effect on the day after publication, except as follows:
(1) Seals and stamps. The renumbering of s. 443.17 and the creation of s. 443.17 (2), (3), and (4) take effect on the first day of the 7th month beginning after publication.
