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46 California Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1965)

handle is hein.sag/sagca0046 and id is 1 raw text is: OPINIONS
OF THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF CALIFORNIA
Volume 46
Opinion No. 65-102-July 2, 1965
SUBJECT: ARCHITECTS-A licensed architect is authorized to prepare and sign
tentative maps and other maps for subdivisions, insofar as such maps involve
the practice of architecture, despite provisions of local ordinances to the
contrary.
Requested by: ASSEMBLYMAN, 36th DISTRICT
Opinion by: THOMAS C. LYNCH, Attorney General
Stanley R. Estabrook, Deputy
The Honorable Winfield A. Shoemaker, Assemblyman, Thirty-Sixth District,
has requested an opinion on the following question:
May a city or county, by ordinance or regulation, prohibit architects licensed
by this State from preparing or signing tentative maps or other maps for sub-
divisions by limiting the preparation and signing thereof to licensed land surveyors
and registered civil engineers?
The conclusion is:
A licensed architect specifically exempted by section 6737 of the Business and
Professions Code from the regulatory provisions of the Civil and Professional
Engineers Act may prepare and sign tentative maps or other maps for subdivisions,
insofar as such maps fall within the practice of architecture.
ANALYSIS
Included with the opinion request is a copy of Ordinance No. 2872 of the
City of Santa Barbara, effective April 24, 1962, adopted as part of the Santa
Barbara City Code. As adopted, section 40.30 requires, in part, that with respect
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