The Landscape Architect and Specifier News asked the Council of Landscape Architectural Regulation Board (CLARB) and explain how it deals with the profession of landscape architecture. The following press release discusses the functions, purposes, and procedures of CLARB.

The Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) was established to- facilitate exchange of information among the several state boards for licensing landscape architects; to formulate and implement reciprocal licensing arrangement and to study and advise on related matters. CLARB’s objectives are to promote high standards of landscape architectural practice; to foster the enactment of uniform laws pertaining to the practice of landscape architecture; to equalize and improve the standards for examination of applicants for state registration; to compile, maintain and transmit professional records to member boards for registered landscape architects desiring this service; and to certify records and recommend registration for landscape architects who meet the standards of the Council for interstate and/or foreign registration.

As part of its services to the landscape architecture profession, CLARB will verify and maintain a record of an applicant’s education, training, experience, examinations and registration. This data, when compiled, becomes a Council Record, and the Council will examine the applicant’s qualifications in relation to its standards of eligibility for Certification. If he or she meets these standards, a Council Certificate will be issued.

The Council Record is a detailed, authenticated personal record of the activities and accomplishments in the landscape architecture profession, and by means of this record facilitates the process of endorsing an applicant’s registration between states and/or foreign countries. The Council will, upon request of individual members of the landscape architecture profession secure, compile, authenticate and record factual data of an applicant’s education, training, practice and character. The Council Record is a prerequisite to a Council Certificate. The Record is required by some state boards as a means of supplementing an applicant’s admission for license in that state.

The Council Certificate is issued to applicants with a Certified Council Record. Council certification indicates that the applicant has complied with the Council Standards for admission to CLARB examination; that the applicant has successfully passed a CLARB examination which conformed to the Council standards which were in effect at the time the examination was given; and that the applicant, because of having demonstrated competence, be accorded favorable consideration by any state to which that person may apply for registration. A great majority of the state boards will accept the Council Certificate as supplementary evidence of a landscape architect’s eligibility for additional registration and license.

For procedures on how to establish a Council Record for Council Certification, contact the CLARB office at 4 Adler Drive, Suite 6, East Syracuse, New York 13057, (305) 463-4545. To determine the eligibility requirements to sit for the Uniform National Examination in various states, licensure requirements, etc., contact the appropriate state board.