FILED Department of Business and Professional Regulation Deputy Agency Clerk CLERK — Evette Lawson-Proclor STATE OF FLORIDA Date 7127/2018 DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND. PROFESSIONAL REGULATIC&* DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, : BOARD OF ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN, : Petitioner, VS: CASE NO.:, 2018-016902 RALPH PUIG, JR. Respondent. / ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND:PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, ("Petitioner"), files this Administrative Complaint before the Board of Architecture and. Interior Design against RALPH PUIG, JR., ("Respondent"), and says: vi Petitioner is the state agency charged with regulating the practice of architecture pursuant to Section 20,165, Florida Statutes, and Chapters 455 and 481, Florida Statutes. 2; Respondent; is and has: been at-all times material hereto, a licensed architect in the State of Florida, having been issued license number AR 12528. 3. Respondent’s address of-record is. 13505. SW 99" Place, Miami, FL 33176. 4. Section 481.215(3), Florida Statutes, states that no license renewal shall be issued to an architect or an. interior designer by the department until. the licensee submits proof satisfactory’ to the department that, during the 2 years prior to application for renewal, the licensee participated per biennium in not less than 24 hours of at least 50 minutes each per biennium of continuing education approved by the board. 5. Respondent renewed his license for the January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016 biennium. 6. By renewing his license, the Respondent affirmed his compliance with Section 481.215(3), Florida Statutes, and that he had completed twenty-four hours of continuing education. 7. On or about October 3, 2017, the Respondent was selected to participate in a continuing education random audit to determine compliance with the continuing education requirements for the January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016 biennium, reestablishment period. 8. Respondent has not been able to provide proof of completing twenty-four hours of continuing education during the period of January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016 biennium. 9. Section 481.225(1)G), Florida Statutes, states disciplinary action can be taken for failing to perform any statutory or legal obligation placed upon a registered architect. 10. Based upon the foregoing, Respondent has violated Section 481.225(1)G), Florida Statutes, by affirming his compliance with the continuing education requireménts when he renewed his license, although he had not completed the statutory requirement. WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests the Board enter an Order imposing one or more of the following penalties: Imposition of probation, reprimand the licensee, revoke, suspend, deny the issuance or renewal of the certificate or registration, require financial restitution to a consumer, impose an administrative fine not to exceed $5,000 per count, require continuing education, 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 the rules promulgated thereunder. $4 Signed this_ 27 day of wy vi , 2018. DAVID K. MINACCI Smith, Thompson, Shaw, Minacci, Colén & Power, P.A. 140-D W 1" Street St. George Island, Florida 32328 FL Bar No. 0056774 Ph: (850) 799-1882 Fax: (850) 799-1884 davidm@stslaw.com PCP: July 17, 2018 Rodriguez Bao-Garciga Rivers

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