Bill > A581

Introduced Session

This bill establishes licensing requirements for landscape professionals. As defined in the bill, "landscape professional" means a person who installs, renovates, or maintains all or any part of the exterior or interior landscape environment and includes persons engaged in each of the landscape categories. The bill defines "landscape category" as an area of specialization of a landscape professional which includes: landscape management professional; landscape installation professional; and landscape lighting professional. The bill creates the Landscape Professional License Review Committee, which is to be overseen by the New Jersey State Board of Architects. The board currently regulates architecture and landscape architecture. The committee shall consist of 10 members who are residents of the State. Seven of these members, including the public member, will have voting rights and four of the members with voting rights will constitute a quorum. In addition, the bill requires the committee to establish continuing education requirements for licensed landscape professionals to complete as a condition of biennial licensure renewal. The bill also stipulates that every professional landscaping business is to register biennially with the committee as a requirement of doing business in this State. Moreover, the bill requires all landscaping contracts in excess of $500 to be in writing and to be in clear and understandable language. The bill permits a consumer to cancel a landscaping contract for any reason at any time before midnight of the third business day after the consumer receives a copy of the contract. The bill requires that the contract contain a conspicuous notice on the consumer's right to cancel. The bill requires the Division of Consumer Affairs to establish and undertake a public information campaign to educate and inform landscape professionals and consumers of the bill's provisions. The bill also requires the committee to provide a toll-free telephone number for consumers making inquiries regarding landscape professionals and professional landscaping business.

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Robert Karabinchak (D)*,  Kevin Rooney (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee (on 01/11/2022)

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