As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Board” means the interior design examining board established pursuant to this
chapter.
2.“Building equipment” means any mechanical, plumbing, electrical, or structural
components, including a conveyance, designed for or located in a building or structure.
3.“Conveyance” means an elevator, dumbwaiter, vertical reciprocating conveyor,
escalator, or other motorized vertical transportation system.
4.“Department” means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing.
5.“Direct supervision and responsible charge” means a registered interior designer’s
personal supervisory control of work of which the registered interior designer has detailed
professional knowledge. In respect to preparing interior technical submissions
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Board” means the interior design examining board established pursuant to this
chapter.
2. “Building equipment” means any mechanical, plumbing, electrical, or structural
components, including a conveyance, designed for or located in a building or structure.
3. “Conveyance” means an elevator, dumbwaiter, vertical reciprocating conveyor,
escalator, or other motorized vertical transportation system.
4. “Department” means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing.
5. “Direct supervision and responsible charge” means a registered interior designer’s
personal supervisory control of work of which the registered interior designer has detailed
professional knowledge. In respect to preparing interior technical submissions, “direct
supervision and responsible charge” means that the registered interior designer has the
exercising, directing, guiding, and restraining power over the preparation of the interior
technical submission, and exercises professional judgment in all matters embodied in the
interior technical submission. “Direct supervision and responsible charge” does not mean
reviewing the interior technical submission prepared by another person unless the reviewer
actually exercises supervision and control and is in responsible charge of the interior
technical submission.
6. “Interior alteration or construction project” means a project for an interior space or
areawithinaproposedorexistingbuildingorstructure, includingconstruction, modification,
renovation, rehabilitation, or historic preservation, that involves changing or altering any of
the following:
a. The design function or layout of rooms.
b. The state of permanent fixtures or equipment.
7. “Interiornonstructuralelement” means an interior design element that does not require
structural bracing and that is not load-bearing according to adopted code.
8. “Interior technical submission” means a design, drawing, specification, study, or
other technical report or calculation that establishes the scope of an interior alteration or
construction project including a description of standards.
9. a. “Registered interior design” means the design of interior spaces as a part of an
interior alteration or construction project including the preparation of interior technical
submissionsrelatingtospaceplanning,finishmaterials,furnishings,fixtures,andequipment,
and the preparation of documents relating to interior construction that does not affect the
engineered systems of a building. “Registered interior design” includes all of the following:
(1) Programming, planning, pre-design analysis, and conceptual design of interior
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nonstructural elements, including but not limited to the selection of materials, furniture,
fixtures, and equipment, but not building equipment.
(2) Alterationorconstructionofinteriornonstructuralelementsandanyinteriortechnical
submissions related to such alteration or construction.
(3) Preparation of a physical plan of space within a proposed or existing building or
structure including all of the following:
(a) Determinations of circulation systems or patterns.
(b) Determinations of the location of exit requirements based on occupancy loads.
(c) Assessment and analysis of interior safety factors to comply with building codes
related to interior nonstructural elements.
(4) Application of building codes, fire codes, and accessibility standards, including but
not limited to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as applicable to interior
technical submissions for interior nonstructural elements.
(5) Rendering of designs, plans, drawings, specifications, contract documents, or
other interior technical submissions and administration of interior nonstructural element
construction and contracts relating to nonstructural elements in interior alteration or
construction of a proposed or existing building or structure.
b. “Registered interior design” does not include any of the following:
(1) Services that constitute the practice of professional engineering or professional
architecture, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
(2) The making of changes or additions to any of the following:
(a) Thestructuralsystemofabuilding, includingchangingthebuilding’sliveordeadload
on the structural system.
(b) The building envelope, including exterior walls, exterior wall coverings, exterior wall
openings, exterior windows and doors, architectural trim, balconies and similar projections,
bay and oriel windows, roof assemblies and rooftop structures, and glass and glazing for
exterior use in both vertical and sloped applications in buildings and structures.
(c) The mechanical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, ventilation, electrical, vertical
transportation, fire sprinkler, or fire alarm systems.
(d) Means of egress systems, except for the exit access component.
(e) Construction that materially affects life safety systems pertaining to fire safety of
structural elements or the fire protection of structural elements, smoke evacuation and
compartmentalization systems, or fire-rated vertical shafts in multi-story structures.
(f) Changes of building use to occupancies not already allowed by the current building.
(g) The construction classification of the building or structure according to the
international building code.
10. “Registered interior designer” means a person registered under this chapter.