Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OF ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN
Respondent: JACK HARRIS AND JACK HARRIS DESIGNS, INC.
Judges: LYNNE A. QUIMBY-PENNOCK
Agency: Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Locations: Winter Garden, Florida
Filed: Sep. 17, 2015
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Thursday, November 12, 2015.
Latest Update: Dec. 24, 2024
FILED
Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Deputy Agency Clerk
STATE OF FLORIDA CLERK Evette Lawson-Proctor
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS! AND PROFESSIONAL REGULA] oye 9/4/2045
File #
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
BOARD OF ARCHITECTURE
AND INTERIOR DESIGN,
Petitioner,
vs. CASE NO.: 2014-047990
JACK HARRIS AND,
JACK HARRIS DESIGNS, INC.,
Respondents.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
("Petitioner"), files this Administrative Coniplin before the Board of Architecture and Interior
Design against JACK HARRIS and JACK HARRIS DESIGNS, INC., (‘Respondents”), and
says: |
1. Petitioner is the state agency: charged with regulating the practice of architecture
and interior design pursuant to Section 20.165, Florida Statutes, and Chapters 455 and 481,
Florida Statutes.
2. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation has jurisdiction over the
unlicensed practice of architecture and interior design pursuant to Section 455.228(1), and
Section 481.223(1)(a), Florida Statutes.
3. Respondents’ last known address is 1074 South Florida Avenue, Lakeland, FL
33803,
4, Atall times material hereto, Respondents were not duly registered or certified to
engage in the practice of architecture pursuant to Chapter 481, Florida Statutes.
5. Respondents prepared drawihgs for a residential project located 2810 48" Street
South, Gulfport, Florida.
6. During the course of providing drawings for the project, Respondents held
themselves as architect.
7. Respondents are not licensed to practice architecture in the State of Florida and
therefore cannot use the title architect.
8. Section 481.223(1)(c), Florida Statutes, states that a person may not knowingly “use
the name or title ‘architect’ or ‘registered architect” or words to that effect, when the person is
not then the holder of a valid license.”
9. Based upon the foregoing, the Respondents have violated Section 481.223(1)(c),
Florida Statutes, by using the name or title “architect”, when they were not the holder of a valid
license.
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WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests the Board enter an Order imposing an
administrative fine not to exceed $5,000 pericount, assess costs associated with investigation and
prosecution, impose any or all penalties delineated within Section 455.227(2), Florida Statutes,
;
and/or any other relief that the Board is authorized to impose pursuant to Chapters 481 and 455,
Florida Statutes, and/or thelrules promulgated thereunder.
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Signed this_3e*
PCP: July 27, 2015
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DAVID K. MINACCI
Smith, Thompson, Shaw,
Minacci & Coldén, P.A.
3520 Thomasville Road, Fourth Floor
Tallahassee, Florida 32309
FL Bar No. 0056774
Ph: (850) 402-1570
Fax: (850) 241-0161
davidm@stslaw.com
Docket for Case No: 15-005191
Issue Date |
Proceedings |
Nov. 12, 2015 |
Order Closing File. CASE CLOSED.
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Nov. 05, 2015 |
AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CASUE.
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Oct. 27, 2015 |
Order to Show Cause.
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Oct. 23, 2015 |
(Petitioner's) Motion to Relinquish Jurisdiction for Hearing Not Involving Disputed Issues of Material Fact filed.
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Oct. 23, 2015 |
(Petitioner's) Motion to Compel Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production filed.
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Sep. 24, 2015 |
Order of Pre-hearing Instructions.
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Sep. 24, 2015 |
Notice of Hearing (hearing set for November 17, 2015; 9:00 a.m.; Winter Haven, FL).
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Sep. 22, 2015 |
Joint Response to Initial Order filed.
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Sep. 17, 2015 |
Initial Order.
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Sep. 17, 2015 |
Election of Rights filed.
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Sep. 17, 2015 |
Notice of Filing Petitioner's First Set of Interrogatories, First Requests for Production and Requests for Admissions filed.
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Sep. 17, 2015 |
Referral Letter filed.
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Sep. 17, 2015 |
Administrative Complaint filed.
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