After years of advocacy efforts and collaboration between landscape architects and allied professionals in the state, Mississippi has enacted a law allowing landscape architects up to one-third ownership in firms that offer architectural services.
In addition to removing barriers to multidisciplinary practice, the legislation also affirms the public-protection rationale for regulating the profession and updates provisions related to title use. The changes, effective July 1, bring Mississippi in line with other US jurisdictions.
Jon Milstead, PLA, a former CLARB director-at-large and volunteer; John Cothron, executive director of the Mississippi State Board of Architecture and CLARB LAC member; and state Rep. Sam Creekmore IV, a licensed landscape architect, were instrumental in advancing the change.
