For ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS [Act 334, P. A. 1919] An act to provide for the registration of architects, engineers and surveyors; to regulate the practice of architecture, engineering and surveying as professions and establish their relation to public works and the surveying and platting of land; to provide for a board of examiners of architects, engineers and surveyors; to repeal act number one hundred twenty of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration of architects and regulating the practice of architecture as a profession," and to provide for the transfer of the funds and records accumulated under said act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Section 1. Any person who represents himself to be an architect or as an engineer, or as a surveyor in any of the branches hereinafter mentioned, in the State of Michigan, shall be registered as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any person, firm or corporation from preparing plans and specifications for buildings to be erected by themselves. Section 2. Any person who shall have been qualified in this State to use the title "registered architect" before this act takes effect shall be considered as registered under this act. Any citizen of the State of Michigan who shall have been engaged in practice as an engineer or surveyor as a principal, or in the responsible charge of design or supervision of engincering works for not less than two years before this act goes into effect, shall be granted a certificate authorizing him to use the title of the branch of engineering in which he has been so engaged. Section 3. The Governor shall, within thirty days after this act goes into effect, appoint a board of seven examiners, which shall be composed of two architects and five engineers, who shall have been in the active practice of their professions as principals for not less than ten years previous to their appointment and who are otherwise qualified, of whom one of the appointees shall be from the Upper Peninsula. Section 4. The members of the board shall be appointed to hold For ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS [Act 334, P. A. 1919] An act to provide for the registration of architects, engineers and surveyors; to regulate the practice of architecture, engineering and surveying as professions and establish their relation to public works and the surveying and platting of land; to provide for a board of examiners of architects, engineers and surveyors; to repeal act number one hundred twenty of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration of architects and regulating the practice of architecture as a profession," and to provide for the transfer of the funds and records accumulated under said act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Section 1. Any person who represents himself to be an architect or as an engineer, or as a surveyor in any of the branches hereinafter mentioned, in the State of Michigan, shall be registered as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any person, firm or corporation from preparing plans and specifications for buildings to be erected by themselves. Section 2. Any person who shall have been qualified in this State to use the title "registered architect" before this act takes effect shall be considered as registered under this act. Any citizen of the State of Michigan who shall have been engaged in practice as an engineer or surveyor as a principal, or in the responsible charge of design or supervision of engincering works for not less than two years before this act goes into effect, shall be granted a certificate authorizing him to use the title of the branch of engineering in which he has been so engaged. Section 3. The Governor shall, within thirty days after this act goes into effect, appoint a board of seven examiners, which shall be composed of two architects and five engineers, who shall have been in the active practice of their professions as principals for not less than ten years previous to their appointment and who are otherwise qualified, of whom one of the appointees shall be from the Upper Peninsula. Section 4. The members of the board shall be appointed to hold office until one, two, three, four, five, six and seven years respectively, after July first, nineteen hundred twenty, or until their successors shall have qualified, and thereafter, upon the expiration of the term of office of each person so appointed, the Governor shall, on or before the first day of July in each year, appoint a successor to hold office for a term of seven years. The members of the board so appointed shall take and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed by the constitution and shall file the same in the office of the Secretary of State. By virtue of appointment the engineer members of the original board shall become registered engineers, and thereafter no person who is not a registered architect or a registered engineer shall be qualified for appointment to said board. Section 5. Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the board shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term of such membership, subject to the provisions of section three hereof. Section 6. The board shall adopt rules and regulations for its own organization and for the examination and classification of candidates for registration, and the issuance of the certificates thereto, and for carrying out the provisions of this act, and may amend, modify, and repeal such rules and regulations from time to time. The said rules and regulations and any amendments thereto shall become effective upon approval by the Attorney General. Section 7. The board shall have power to classify the applicants into the respective branches of engineering as follows: Civil engineer, mining engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, chemical engineer and surveyor, and such other branches of engineering as the board may consider subject to this act, and shall have authority to issue a certificate entitling the registrant to use the title of "registered civil engineer," "registered mining engineer," "registered mechanical engineer," "registered electrical engineer," "registered chemical engineer," and "registered surveyor," or such other registered titles indicating more limited qualifications as the board may designate, and to practice in the branch of engineering in which such person is registered; and further shall have power to issue certificates to persons qualifying under this act as architects to use the title of "registered architect." Nothing in this section shall prevent any person qualified hereunder from registering in any and all branches of engineering herein specified or in architecture. No person shall use the title "registered architect" or "registered engineer" or "registered surveyor" or any variation of the same, or use any word, letter or device to indicate that the person so using the same is a registered architect or a registered engineer or a registered surveyor, after the first day of January, nineteen hundred twenty, without being registered as an architect or engineer or surveyor, in |