Kansas Landscaping Licensing Law

Kansas Code · 10 sections

The following is the full text of Kansas’s landscaping licensing law statutes as published in the Kansas Code. For the official version, see the Kansas Legislature.

K.S.A. 74-7003

74-7003. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto:

(a) "Agricultural building" means any structure designed and constructed to house hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other horticultural products, or for farm storage of farming implements. Such structure shall not be a place for human habitation or a place of employment where agricultural products are processed, treated or packaged, nor shall it be a building or structure for use by the public.

(b) "Architect" means a person who is qualified to engage in the practice of architecture and who is licensed by the board to practice architecture as provided in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(c) (1) "Architecture" or "practice of architecture" means providing, offering to provide or holding oneself out as able to provide professional architectural services or performing creative work which requires architectural education, training and experience as may be required in connection with the design and construction, restoration, enlargement or alteration of non-exempt public or private buildings intended for human habitation, occupancy or use, and the spaces within and the site surrounding such buildings.

(2) Professional architectural services include the following: Common technical services, as defined in subsection (g); pre-design and schematic design; programming; planning; preparing or providing architectural designs, drawings, specifications and other technical submissions; the design of items relating to building code requirements, as such items pertain to architecture; and the preparation of any architectural design features that are required on legal documents and those other professional architectural services as may be necessary for the rendering of services which have the purpose of protecting the health, safety, property and welfare of the public.

(3) The term "architecture" or "practice of architecture" shall not include those services specifically identified in the definition of "landscape architecture," "professional engineering," "professional geology" and "professional surveying" except for those services which are included in the term "common technical services," as defined in subsection (g).

(d) "Board" means the state board of technical professions.

(e) "Building" means any permanent structure which is enclosed or partially enclosed that provides shelter for human habitation.

(f) "Business entity" means a general corporation, professional corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, corporate partnership or other legal entity created by law.

(g) "Common technical services" means those services which may be offered or performed by any licensee, are performed within the licensee's defined scope of practice and are further described as follows:

(1) Representation of clients in connection with contracts entered into between clients and others;

(2) coordination of elements of technical submissions prepared by the licensee's consultants;

(3) administration of contracts for construction;

(4) observation of construction for general conformance with requirements of approved construction documents or technical submissions prepared by a licensee;

(5) performing acts of consultation and technical investigation;

(6) providing expert technical testimony or testimony evaluation;

(7) performing technical evaluations and research;

(8) teaching in a college or university offering an accredited technical professional curriculum recognized by the board;

(9) providing responsible supervision of these services, insofar as such services involve safeguarding the health, safety, property and welfare of the public; and

(10) preparing and providing drawings, specifications and other technical submissions.

(h) "Construction administration" means the provision of technical professional services during construction by licensees, or persons under the licensee's responsible supervision, which act to confirm substantial compliance with the requirements and provisions of applicable technical documents prepared by the licensee or under the licensee's responsible supervision. Such technical professional services include, but are not limited to: Assisting with bidding or negotiation processes; reviewing and acting upon shop drawings and other submittals; providing clarification or interpretation of the licensee's technical documents; evaluating general progress of construction; observing or evaluating completed construction; and assisting the client in matters related to the licensee's technical professional expertise. Construction administration services do not include management of, or responsibility for, the contractor's construction activities, means or methods.

(i) "Government client" means any state, county or municipal governmental entity including, but not limited to, any department, agency, authority, planning district, board, commission, office or institution thereof, and any school district, college, university and any individual acting under authority to represent any such governmental entity.

(j) "Landscape architect" means a person who is qualified to engage in the practice of landscape architecture and who is licensed by the board to practice landscape architecture as provided in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(k) (1) "Landscape architecture" or "practice of landscape architecture" means performing professional landscape architectural services including the following: Common technical services, as defined in subsection (g); consultation, planning, designing or responsible supervision in connection with the development of land areas for preservation and enhancement; the development of sustainable designs and technology; preparation, review and analysis of master plans for land use and development; production of overall site development and land enhancement plans, grading and drainage plans, irrigation plans, planting plans and construction details; specifications, cost analysis and reports for land development; and the designing of land forms and non-habitable structures for aesthetic and functional purposes, such as pools, walls and structures for outdoor living spaces, for public and private use. The practice of landscape architecture also encompasses the determination of proper land use as it pertains to: Natural features; ground cover, use, nomenclature and arrangement of plant material adapted to soils and climate; naturalistic and aesthetic values; settings and approaches to structures and other improvements; soil conservation; erosion control; and the development of outdoor space in accordance with ideals of human use and enjoyment.

(2) The term "landscape architecture" or "practice of landscape architecture" shall not include those services specifically identified in the definition of "architecture," "professional engineering," "professional geology" and "professional surveying" except for those services which are included in the term "common technical services," as defined in subsection (g).

(l) "License" means a license to practice the technical professions granted under K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(m) "Person" means a natural person or business entity.

(n) "Principal" means a person who serves in a business entity as an officer, member of a board of directors, member of a limited liability company or partner.

(o) "Professional engineer" means a person who is qualified to engage in the practice of engineering and who is licensed by the board to practice engineering as provided in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(p) (1) "Professional engineering" or "practice of engineering" means providing, offering to provide, or holding oneself out as able to provide professional engineering services, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences, including the following: Common technical services, as defined in subsection (g); consulting, investigating, evaluating, planning and designing of engineering works and systems; producing engineering surveys and studies; and preparing any engineering design features which embrace such service or work, either public or private, for any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, projects and industrial or consumer products or equipment of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic or thermal nature, insofar as they involve safeguarding the health, safety, property or welfare of the public.

(2) As used in this subsection, the term "engineering surveys" includes all survey activities required to support the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of engineered projects, but excludes the surveying of real property for the establishment of land boundaries, rights-of-way, easements and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of the public land survey system.

(3) The term "professional engineering" or "practice of professional engineering" shall not include those services specifically identified in the definition of "architecture," "landscape architecture," "professional geology" and "professional surveying" except for those services which are included in the term "common technical services," as defined in subsection (g).

(q) "Professional geologist" means a person who is qualified to engage in the practice of geology and who is licensed by the board to practice geology as provided in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(r) (1) "Professional geology" or "practice of professional geology" means the performing of professional geology services including the following: Common technical services, as defined in subsection (g); planning or mapping, providing observation, or the responsible supervision thereof, in connection with the treatment of the earth and its origin and history, in general; the investigation of the earth's constituent rocks, minerals, solids, fluids, including surface and underground waters, gases and other materials; and the study of the natural agents, forces and processes which cause changes in the earth.

(2) The term "professional geology" or "practice of professional geology" shall not include those services specifically identified in the definition of "architecture," "landscape architecture," "professional engineering" and "professional surveying" except for those services which are included in the term "common technical services," as defined in subsection (g).

(s) "Professional surveyor" means any person who is engaged in the practice of surveying and who is licensed by the board to practice surveying as provided in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

(t) (1) "Professional surveying" or "practice of professional surveying" means providing, or offering to provide, professional surveying services including the following: Common technical services, as defined in subsection (g); using such sciences as mathematics, geodesy and photogrammetry; and involving the making of geometric measurements and gathering related information pertaining to the physical or legal features of the earth, improvements on the earth, the space above, on or below the earth and providing, utilizing or developing the same into survey products such as graphics, data, maps, plans, reports, descriptions or projects. Professional surveying services also include planning, mapping, assembling and interpreting gathered measurements and information related to any one or more of the following:

(A) Determining by measurement the configuration or contour of the earth's surface or the position of fixed objects thereon;

(B) determining by performing geodetic surveys the size and shape of the earth or the position of any point on the earth;

(C) locating, relocating, establishing, re-establishing or retracing property lines or boundaries of any tract of land, road, right-of-way or easement;

(D) preparing the original descriptions of real property for the conveyance of or recording thereof and the preparation of graphics, data, maps, plans, reports, land subdivision plats, descriptions and projects that represent these surveys;

(E) determining, by the use of principles of surveying, the position for any survey monument, whether boundary or non-boundary, or reference point and establishing or replacing any such monument or reference point;

(F) making any survey for the division, subdivision or consolidation of any tract of land;

(G) locating or laying out alignments, positions or elevations where such work is part of the construction of engineering or architectural works; and

(H) creating, preparing or modifying electronic, computerized or other data relative to performance of the activities set forth in subparagraphs (A) through (G).

(2) The term "professional surveying" or "practice of professional surveying" shall not include those services specifically identified in the definition of "architecture," "landscape architecture," "professional engineering" and "professional geology" except for those services which are included in the term "common technical services," as defined in subsection (g).

(u) "Responsible charge" means the application of personal supervision and professional judgment, and the incorporation of detailed knowledge with respect to the content of a technical submission by a licensee when applying the normal standard of care for the work that such licensee is licensed to perform.

(v) "Standard of care" means the duty to exercise the degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by a reputable licensee practicing in Kansas in the same or similar locality and under similar circumstances.

(w) "Technical professions" includes the professions of architecture, landscape architecture, professional engineering, professional geology and professional surveying as the practice of such professions are defined in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

K.S.A. 74-7005

74-7005. Qualifications of members. (a) Membership of the board shall be as follows:

(1) Four members shall have been engaged in the practice of engineering for at least eight years, which practice shall include responsible charge of engineering work, and shall be Kansas licensed professional engineers. At least one of such members shall be engaged in private practice as an engineer. At least one of such members may also be licensed as a Kansas professional surveyor, as well as a Kansas licensed professional engineer.

(2) Two members shall have been engaged in the practice of surveying for at least eight years, which practice shall include responsible charge of surveying work, and shall be Kansas licensed professional surveyors.

(3) Three members shall have been engaged in the practice of architecture for at least eight years, which practice shall include responsible charge of architectural work, and shall be Kansas licensed architects.

(4) One member shall have been engaged in the practice of landscape architecture for at least eight years, which practice shall include responsible charge of landscape architectural work, and shall be a Kansas licensed landscape architect.

(5) One member shall have been engaged in the practice of geology for at least eight years, which practice shall include responsible charge of geology work, and shall be a Kansas licensed professional geologist.

(6) Two members shall be from the general public of this state.

(b) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of this state.

(c) Any amendments to this section shall not be applicable to any member of the board who was appointed to the board and qualified for such appointment under this section prior to the effective date of such enactment.

K.S.A. 74-7020

74-7020. Landscape architects; qualifications for licensure. Minimum qualifications of applicants seeking licensure as landscape architects are the following:

(a) (1) Graduation from a four-year college or university program that is adequate in its preparation of students for the practice of landscape architecture and a minimum of four years of experience in landscape architectural work of a character satisfactory to the board, as defined by rules and regulations of the board; or

(2) graduation from a five-year college or university program that is adequate in its preparation of students for the practice of landscape architecture and a minimum of three years of experience in landscape architectural work of a character satisfactory to the board, as defined by rules and regulations of the board; and

(b) the satisfactory passage of an examination utilized by the board.

K.S.A. 74-7029

74-7029. Unlawful acts; prosecution; assistance of attorney general and district or county attorney. (a) It shall be a class A misdemeanor for any person to:

(1) Practice or offer to practice or hold one's self out as entitled to practice any technical profession unless the person is licensed as provided in K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, or holds a certificate of authorization issued under K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto;

(2) present or attempt to use, as such person's own, the license, certificate of authorization or seal of another;

(3) falsely impersonate any other practitioner of like or different name;

(4) give false or forged evidence to the board, or any member thereof, in obtaining a license or certificate of authorization;

(5) use or attempt to use a license or certificate of authorization that has expired or been suspended or revoked;

(6) falsely advertise as a licensed practitioner or as the holder of a certificate of authorization;

(7) use in connection with such person's name, or otherwise assume, or advertise any title or description intended to convey the impression that such person is a licensed practitioner or holds a certificate of authorization; or

(8) otherwise violate any of the provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, or any rule and regulation promulgated by the board.

(b) For the purposes of subsection (a)(1), a person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice or hold one's self out as entitled to practice a technical profession if such person:

(1) Practices any branch of the technical professions;

(2) by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way represents the person to be an architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, professional geologist or professional surveyor;

(3) through the use of some other title implies that such person is an architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, professional geologist or professional surveyor, or that such person is licensed to practice a technical profession; or

(4) holds one's self out as able to perform, or does perform, any service or work or any other service designated by the practitioner which is recognized as within the scope of the practice of a technical profession.

(c) The attorney general of the state or the district or county attorney of any county, at the request of the board, shall render such legal assistance as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto. Upon the request of the board, the attorney general or district or county attorney of the proper county shall institute in the name of the state or board the proper proceedings against any person regarding whom a complaint has been made charging such person with the violation of any of the provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto. The attorney general, and such district or county attorney, at the request of the attorney general or of the board, shall appear and prosecute any and all such actions.

K.S.A. 74-7031

74-7031. Architecture; exemptions from requirements for licensure or certification; definitions. The provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, requiring licensure or the issuance of a certificate of authorization under K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, to engage in the practice of architecture shall not be construed to prevent or to affect:

(a) The practice of any person engaging in the publication of books or pamphlets illustrating architectural designs.

(b) Persons preparing plans, drawings or specifications for buildings housing no more than two dwelling units in one contiguous structure or for agricultural buildings.

(c) Persons furnishing, individually or with subcontractors, labor and materials, with or without plans, drawings, specifications, instruments of service, or other data concerning the labor and materials to be used for any of the following, provided, compliance with the most recent edition of the international building code adopted by the international code conference and rules and regulations adopted by the state fire marshal, is not required:

(1) Store fronts or facades, interior alterations or additions, fixtures, cabinet work, furniture, appliances or other equipment;

(2) work necessary to provide for installation of any item designated in subsection (c)(1);

(3) alterations or additions to a building necessary to, or attendant upon, installation of any item designated in subsection (c)(1), if the alteration or addition does not change or affect:

(A) The structural system of the building, which structural system includes, but is not limited to, foundations, walls, floors, roofs, footings, bearing partitions, beams, columns or joists and does not exceed the structural capacity of the system;

(B) the required exit capacities or exiting travel distances; or

(d) Work involving matters of rates, rating and loss prevention by employees of insurance rating organizations and insurance service organizations and insurance companies and agencies.

(e) The performance of services by a licensed landscape architect or business entity issued a certificate of authorization to provide services in landscape architecture under K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, in connection with landscape and site planning for the sites, approaches or environment for buildings, structures or facilities.

K.S.A. 74-7032

74-7032. Landscape architecture; exemptions from requirements for licensure or certification. The provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, requiring licensure or the issuance of a certificate of authorization under K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, to engage in the practice of landscape architecture shall not be construed to prevent or to affect:

(a) The right of any individual to engage in the occupation of growing and marketing nursery stock, to use the title nurseryman, landscape nurseryman or gardener, or to prohibit any individual to plan or plant such individual's own property.

(b) The right of nurserymen to engage in preparing and executing planting plans.

(d) The performance of those services described in subsection (k)(1) of K.S.A. 74-7003, and amendments thereto, by a licensed professional engineer, except that no licensed professional engineer shall perform the following services: (1) Planting plans; or (2) the determination of proper land use as it pertains to natural features; ground cover, use, nomenclature and arrangement of plant material adapted to soils and climate.

K.S.A. 74-7033

74-7033. Engineering; exemptions from requirements for licensure or certification. The provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, requiring licensure or the issuance of a certificate of authorization under K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, to engage in the practice of engineering shall not be construed to prevent or to affect:

(a) Except as provided by subsection (b), the design or erection of any structure or work by a person who owns the structure or work, upon such person's own premises for such person's own use if the structure or work is not to be used for human habitation, is not to serve as a place of employment, and is not to be open to the public for any purpose whatsoever.

(b) Persons designing or erecting or preparing plans, drawings or specifications for buildings housing no more than two dwelling units in one contiguous structure or for agricultural buildings.

(d) The performance of services by a licensed landscape architect in connection with landscape and site planning for the sites, approaches or environment for buildings, structures or facilities.

K.S.A. 74-7034

74-7034. Land surveying; exemptions from requirements for licensure or certification. The provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, requiring licensure or the issuance of a certificate of authorization under K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, to engage in the practice of surveying shall not be construed to prevent or to affect:

(a) Those surveying activities, which include locating or laying out of alignments, positions or elevations where such work is part of the construction of engineering or architectural works, when such activities are for purposes other than the conveyance of an interest in real property.

(b) The practice of surveying by an individual of such individual's own real property or that of such individual's employer for purposes other than the conveyance of an interest in such real property.

(d) The performance of services by a licensed landscape architect or by a business entity issued a certificate of authorization to provide services in landscape architecture under K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, in connection with landscape and site planning for the sites, approaches or environment for buildings, structures or facilities.

(e) Mapping by governmental agencies when such activity does not involve the locating, relocating, or physical establishment of land boundaries and related monuments or the preparation of original or field retracement of existing descriptions of real property.

K.S.A. 74-7035

74-7035. Act not applicable to certain practices and persons. The provisions of K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall not apply to:

(a) The work of an employee, consultant or a subordinate of a person holding a license under K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto, if such work does not include final designs or decisions, responsible charge of design and is done under the direct responsibility and supervision of a person practicing lawfully a technical profession;

(b) the work of any person who is exclusively and regularly employed by a single employer, provided, such employer is not an engineering, architectural, surveying, landscape architectural or geology firm, and is not primarily engaged in the business of conveying an interest in real property, and also provided, such work is performed under an employer-employee relationship, and making surveys of land and determinations of physical property rights is performed solely in connection with the affairs of such employer or its subsidiaries and affiliates and solely for the uses, purposes and benefit of such employer, subsidiaries and affiliates;

(c) a plumbing contractor, master plumber or journeyman plumber licensed under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1508 et seq., and amendments thereto, while performing the work such plumber is authorized to perform pursuant to such license; or

(d) an electrical contractor, master electrician, journeyman electrician or residential electrician licensed under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1525 et seq., and amendments thereto, while performing the work such electrician is authorized to perform pursuant to such license.

(e) For purposes of this act, public officers and employees who, within the scope of their employment and in the discharge of their public duties, provide information pertinent to or review the sufficiency of technical submissions, or who inspect property or buildings for compliance with requirements safeguarding life, health or property, are not engaged in the practice of the technical professions.

K.S.A. 74-7047

74-7047. Peer review; technical professions. (a) As used in this section:

(1) "Board" means the state board of technical professions established pursuant to K.S.A. 74-7004, and amendments thereto.

(2) "Design profession" means the practice of architecture, landscape architecture, land surveying, geology or engineering as specified in K.S.A. 74-7003, and amendments thereto.

(3) "Design professional" means an architect, landscape architect, land surveyor, geologist or professional engineer or a business entity authorized pursuant to K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, to practice one or more of the technical professions specified in paragraph (2).

(4) "Architect" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in K.S.A. 74-7003, and amendments thereto.

(5) "Geologist" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in K.S.A. 74-7003, and amendments thereto.

(6) "Landscape architect" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in K.S.A. 74-7003, and amendments thereto.

(7) "Land surveyor" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in K.S.A. 74-7003, and amendments thereto.

(8) "Professional engineer" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in K.S.A. 74-7003, and amendments thereto.

(9) "Lessons learned" means any internal meeting, class, publication in any medium, presentation, lecture, or other means of teaching and communicating after substantial completion of the project which are conducted solely and exclusively by and with the employees, partners, and coworkers of the design professional who prepared the project's design for the purpose of learning best practices and reducing errors and omissions in design documents and procedures.

(10) "Peer review" or "peer review process" means any of the following functions:

(A) Evaluate and improve the design, drawings specifications or quality of services rendered by a design professional;

(B) evaluate the design, construction, procedures and results of improvements to real property based upon services rendered by a design professional during or after completion of such improvements; or

(C) prepare an internal lessons learned review of any project or services rendered for the purpose of improving the quality of services rendered by a design professional.

(11) "Peer reviewer" or "peer review committee" means an individual design professional or a committee of design professionals retained, employed, designated or appointed by:

(A) A state, county or local society of design professionals; or

(B) the board of directors, chief executive officer, quality control director, or employed design professional of a business entity authorized pursuant to K.S.A. 74-7036, and amendments thereto, to practice one or more of the technical professions specified in paragraph (2).

(b) (1) Except as provided by K.S.A. 60-437, and amendments thereto, and by subsections (c) and (d), the reports, statements, memoranda, proceedings, findings and other records submitted to or generated by any peer review committee or peer reviewer shall be privileged and shall not be subject to discovery, subpoena or other means of legal compulsion for their release to any person or entity or be admissible in evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Information contained in such records shall not be discoverable or admissible at trial in the form of testimony by an individual who participated in the peer review process.

(2) The design professional who retains, employs, designates or appoints the peer reviewer or peer review committee is the holder of the privilege established by this section. This privilege may be claimed by such design professional and shall not be waived as a result of any disclosure by a peer reviewer or peer review committee.

(c) (1) Subsection (b) shall not apply to proceedings by the board in which a design professional contests the revocation, denial, restriction or termination of the license, registration, certification or other authorization to practice of the design professional. In any disciplinary proceeding conducted by the board in which admission of any peer review report, record or testimony is proposed by the licensee, the board shall hold the hearing in closed session when any such report, record or testimony is disclosed. Unless otherwise provided by law, in a disciplinary proceeding involving a design professional, the board may close only that portion of the hearing in which disclosure of a report or record privileged under this section is proposed. In closing a portion of a hearing as provided by this section, the presiding officer may exclude any person from the hearing location except the licensee, the licensee's attorney, the agency's attorney, the witness, the court reporter and appropriate staff support for either counsel.

(2) Upon motion of the design professional who is subject to the proceeding, a district court or the board shall make the portions of the agency record in which such report or record is disclosed subject to a protective order prohibiting further disclosure of such report or record.

(3) Such report or record shall not be subject to discovery, subpoena or other means of legal compulsion for its release to any person or entity. No person in attendance at a closed portion of a disciplinary proceeding shall at a subsequent civil, criminal or administrative hearing, be required to testify regarding the existence or content of a report or record privileged under this section which was disclosed in a closed portion of a hearing, nor shall such testimony be admitted into evidence in any subsequent civil, criminal or administrative hearing.

(4) In conducting a disciplinary proceeding, the board may review peer review committee process, records, testimony or reports but must prove its findings with independently obtained testimony or records which shall be presented as part of the disciplinary proceeding in open meeting of the board. Peer review committee process, records, testimony or reports received by the board shall not be subject to discovery, subpoena or other means of legal compulsion for their release to any person or entity and shall not be admissible in evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding other than a disciplinary proceeding by the board.

(5) Offering such testimony or records in an open public hearing shall not be deemed a waiver of the peer review privilege relating to any peer review committee testimony, records or report.

(d) Nothing in this section shall limit the authority, which may otherwise be provided by law, of the board to impose disciplinary action pursuant to K.S.A. 74-7026, and amendments thereto, against a design professional.

(e) (1) A peer review committee or peer reviewer may report to and discuss its activities, information and findings to other peer review committees or peer peer reviewers or to the design professional who retains, employs, designates or appoints the peer reviewer or peer review committee and to any officer, director or quality control director thereof without waiver of the privilege provided by subsection (b) and the records of all such peer review committees or peer reviewers relating to such report shall be privileged as provided by subsection (b).

(2) Each peer reviewer and member of a peer review committee shall be immune from civil liability for such acts so long as the acts are performed in good faith, without malice, and are reasonably related to the scope of inquiry of the peer review process. The immunity in this subsection is intended to cover only outside peer reviews by a third-party design professional who:

(A) Is not an employee, coworker, or partner of the design professional whose design is being peer reviewed; and

(B) has no other role in the project besides performing the peer review.

(f) No provision of this act shall be construed to supersede or conflict with the authority of the board of technical professions pursuant to K.S.A. 74-7001 et seq., and amendments thereto.

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