Architectural Services

Sidney Margulies, Deputy Attorney General, and Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General,

You have asked this department to render an opinion interpreting the Architects’ Law1 in order that the State Board of Examiners of Architects may resolve certain problems before them.2 We shall state each problem and give our advice in the subsequent paragraphs.

I. To what extent may an engineer perform architectural work?

The fifth paragraph of section 13 of the Architects’ Law provides:

“Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply . . . to any person who is qualified under the law to use the title…