<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 36-18A-9 - Certain persons exempt from provisions of chapter. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2060385Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2060385SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2060385CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2060385Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2060385DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2060385Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } p.s2060385Normal-000002 { margin-left: 1.14in; text-indent: -0.44in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2060385000003 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2060385Normal-000004 { text-indent: 0.25in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2060385SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2060385SCL-000005 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=36-18A-9"><span class="s2060385SENU">36-18A-9</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2060385SENU">. </span><span class="s2060385CL">Certain persons exempt from provisions of chapter.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000000"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">This chapter does not apply to:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Any person engaged in military engineering while rendering service exclusively for any of the armed forces of the United States or this state;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Any person engaged in the practice of engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, or land surveying in the employ of the United States government but only while exclusively engaged as a United States government employee on such government project or projects which lie within federally-owned land;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Any person engaged in the practice of engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, or land surveying in the employ of the state and any of its political subdivisions but only while rendering service exclusively to such employer. Any building project resulting from the practice of engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, or land surveying under this subdivision is subject to the size limitation imposed under the exemptions in subdivision (8) of this section;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    Any employee who prepares technical submissions or administers construction contracts for a person or organization lawfully engaged in the practice of engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, or land surveying, if the employee is under the direct supervision of a registered professional engineer, architect, landscape architect, or land surveyor;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    Any full-time employee of a corporation, partnership, firm, business entity, or public utility while exclusively doing work for the corporation, partnership, firm, business entity, or public utility, if the work performed is in connection with the property, products, and services utilized by the employer and not for any corporation, partnership, firm, or business entity practicing or offering to practice architectural, engineering, landscape architecture, or land surveying services to the public. The provisions of this subdivision do not apply to any building or structure if the primary use is occupancy by the public;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    Any person engaged in the preparation of plans and specifications for the erection, enlargement, or alteration of any of the following buildings:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(a)    Any dwelling for a single family, and any outbuilding in connection therewith, such as a barn or private garage;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(b)    Any two, three, or four family dwelling;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(c)    Any five to sixteen family dwelling, inclusive, located in a governmental subdivision of this state which provides a detailed building code review of building projects by a building inspection department which is a governmental member of the International Code Council (ICC) or an ICC certified plans examiner;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(d)    Any farm or ranch building or accessory thereto except any building regularly used for public purposes; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(e)    Any temporary building or shed used exclusively for construction purposes, not exceeding two stories in height, and not used for living quarters;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(7)    Any person who prepares detailed or shop plans required to be furnished by a contractor to a registered professional engineer or architect, and any construction superintendent supervising the execution of work designed by an architect or professional engineer registered in accordance with this chapter;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000001"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(8)    Any person engaged in the preparation of plans and specifications for the new construction, the enlargement or the alteration of any of the following buildings:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(a)    Any building occupied as a hospital, hotel, motel, restaurant, library, medical office, nursing facility, assisted living facility, jail, retirement home, or mortuary, if the gross square footage of the new construction, the enlargement, or the alteration is four thousand square feet or less;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2060385000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(b)    Any building occupied as an auditorium, church, school, or theater if the gross square footage of the new construction, the enlargement, or the alteration is five thousand square feet or less;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(c)    Any building occupied as a bowling alley, office, shopping center, bank, fire station, service station, or store if the gross square footage of the new construction, the enlargement, or the alteration is seven thousand square feet or less;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(d)    Any building occupied as an industrial plant or public garage if the gross square footage of the new construction, the enlargement, or the alteration is eleven thousand square feet or less;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(e)    Any building occupied as a warehouse if the gross square footage of the new construction, the enlargement, or the alteration is twenty thousand square feet or less;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(f)    Any building with an occupancy other than those listed in subsections (a) to (e), inclusive, of this subdivision if the gross square footage of the new construction, the enlargement, or the alteration is four thousand square feet of less; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000002"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">(g)    Any preengineered or predesigned building, or any preengineered or predesigned building with a predesigned system, designed for the intended use of that building, including building structure, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical systems, if the buildings and systems are supplied directly, or indirectly, by a company engaged in the business of designing and supply such buildings and systems and if the company has in its employ one or more engineers or architects licensed in South Dakota, who prepare all designs for such buildings and systems.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal-000004"><span class="s2060385DefaultParagraphFont">No person exempted may use the title of professional engineer, architect, landscape architect, or land surveyor, or any other word, words, letters, or signs in connection with the person's name that may falsely convey the impression that the person is a licensed professional engineer, architect, landscape architect, or land surveyor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2060385000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2060385Normal"><span class="s2060385SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2060385SCL-000005"> SL 1999, ch 195, § 9; SL 2007, ch 219, § 7; SL 2016, ch 195, § 3.</span></p></div></body></html>