§ 25-4-1-4 — Duties of attorney general; injunction; use of investigative fund

Indiana § 25-4-1-4

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 25: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
• Art. 4: ARCHITECTS
• Ch. 1: Regulation of Architects Generally ─ Creation of Board

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The board shall be entitled to the services of the
attorney general in connection with any of the business of the board.
The board shall have the power to administer oaths and take testimony
and proofs concerning any matter which may come within its
jurisdiction. The attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of any
county, the board, or a citizen of a county wherein any person, not
herein exempted, shall engage in the practice of architecture or
landscape architecture, as herein defined, without first having obtained
a certificate of registration, or without first having renewed an expired
certificate of registration, so to practice, may, in accordance with the
provisions of the laws of this state governing injunctions, maintain an
action, in the name of the state of Indiana, to enjoin such person from
engaging in the practice of architecture or landscape architecture, as
herein defined, until a certificate of registration is secured, or renewed,
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Any person who has
been so enjoined and who violates the injunction shall be punished for
contempt of court. The injunction shall not relieve such person so
practicing architecture or landscape architecture without a certificate
of registration, or without first having renewed an expired certificate of
registration, from a criminal prosecution therefor, as is provided by this
chapter, but such remedy by injunction shall be in addition to any
remedy provided for herein for the criminal prosecution of such
offender. In charging any person in a complaint for an injunction, or in
an affidavit, information or indictment, with the violation of the
provisions of this chapter, by practicing architecture or landscape
architecture without a certificate of registration or without having
renewed an expired certificate of registration, it shall be sufficient to
charge that the person did upon a certain day and in a certain county
engage in the practice of architecture or landscape architecture, without
having a certificate of registration or without having renewed an
expired certificate of registration, to so practice, without averring any
further or more particular facts concerning the same. The attorney
general and the Indiana professional licensing agency may use the
registered architects and registered landscape architects investigative
fund established by section 32 of this chapter to hire investigators and
other employees to enforce the provisions of this article and to
investigate and prosecute violations of this article.
Formerly: Acts 1929, c.62, s.4; Acts 1935, c.252, s.1. As
amended by Acts 1982, P.L.154, SEC.10; P.L.82-2000, SEC.9;
P.L.194-2005, SEC.12.