Comment:  Add terms “field” and “discipline” in the definitions.  Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, and Landscape Architecture are broad areas of practice that contain specialty areas.  In order to provide the minimal protection of public health, safety, and welfare, I feel it is important to require regulants to be competent in the overall profession and possess competency within the sub-areas in which they practice.   I think this concept is implied within the regulations, but it is not explicitly stated.  Therefore, I believe the regulations should include language that indicates to regulants that they must be competent in the work they perform – not just the profession.  For example, the discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of technology and types of application.  I do NOT think the Board needs to seek certification or licensure for areas, sub-areas, or disciplines because I think this should be left up to the professional – self-policing.   My intention to modify the regulations is to allow the Board to have a means to better regulate our profession in the event a regulant practices an area, sub-area, or discipline in which the regulant was clearly not competent to practice and by doing so jeopardize the public health, safety, and welfare.  In addition, if unaddressed then a regulant would perpetuate a perception to the public that professionals are neither trustworthy nor are they interested in looking out for the public.

Recommendation – add two terms to the definition..

"Field" means an area or sub-area within a profession that typically requires additional, specific knowledge and experience beyond the experience and education required to become licensed as a profession.

"Discipline" means an area or sub-area within a profession that typically requires additional, specific knowledge and experience beyond the experience and education required to become licensed as a profession.