; OY MeO | y STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, Petitioner, VS. LAWRENCE A. LORDI, Respondent. / ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, ("Petitioner"), files this Administrative Complaint before the Board of Architecture and Interior Design against LAWRENCE A. LORDI, ("Respondent"), and says: 1. 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 15793. 3. Respondent's address of record is 13370 S.W. 131%, Suite 104, Miami, Florida 33186. 4. Respondent is the qualifier and sole architect in responsible supervisory control of Rosello Balboa Lordi Architecture, Inc, which offers and provides architectural services from its office at 13370 S.W. 131%, Suite 104, Miami, Florida 33186. ( (\¢ 5. Rosello Balboa Lordi Architecture, Inc., at all times material hereto held a valid certificate of authorization. 6. During the time period of December 12, 2002 through March 4, 2003, Respondent also worked full time in the architectural firm of Dorksy Hodgson and Partners. 7. While the Respondent was employed with the architectural firm of Dorksy Hodgson and Partners, the architectural firm of Rosello Balboa Lordi Architecture, Inc. was providing or offering to provide architectural services on the following projects: a. Goodman Property; 27 acre master site plan, b. The French Village; 12 Townhouses on a 2 acre site, c. The Dutch Village; 11 Townhouses on a 2 acre site, and d. Summerville Models; 8 single family models and 2 townhouses. 8. Rule 61G1-23.010, Florida Administrative Code, states, “Each architectural office maintained for the presentation of drawings, specifications, reports and other professional work shall have an architect duly registered with the Board of Architecture & Interior Design within that office with full authority and in responsible charge, having direct knowledge and supervising control over such work.” 9. Rule 61G1-23.030(2), Florida Administrative Code, states, “Any other activities, including the entering into contracts between the architect and the client or the beginning of conceptual drawings shall require the full time assignment of a registered architect at the office site.” COUNTI 10. Petitioner hereby realleges and incorporates paragraphs one (1) through nine (9) as if fully set forth herein. { (ve fl. Section 48 1.221(4), Florida Statutes, states in pertinent part that no registered architect shall affix her or his signature or seal to any final construction document or instrument of service which includes drawings, plans, specifications, or architectural documents which were not prepared by her or him or under her or his responsible supervising control or by another registered architect and reviewed, approved, or modified and adopted by her or him as her or his own work according to rules adopted by the board. 12. Rule 61G1-23.015(1), Administrative Code, require the architect to prepare and maintain as evidence of the architect’s efforts: written calculations, correspondence, time records, check prints, telephone logs, site visit logs or research done for the project and shall provide such evidence to state or local authorities upon their request. 13. Rule 61G1-23.015(2), Administrative Code, requires the architect to maintain written documentation that the architect has personally supervised the preparation of all documents and instruments of service, reviewed all project data, personally inspected the project site and entered into a written agreement with the persons preparing the documents accepting professional responsibility for such work. 14. Rule 61G1-23.015(3), Administrative Code, requires the architect to be present whenever such final work is submitted to a client, in order to respond to questions and maintain written minutes of such a submission meeting. 15. Based upon the foregoing, Respondent has violated Section 481.221(4), Florida Statutes, and Rule 61G1-23.015, Administrative Code, by improperly certifying work prepared by another. COUNT U 16. Petitioner hereby reaileges and incorporates paragraphs one (1) through nine (9) as if fully set forth herein. 17. Section 455.227, Florida Statutes, states in pertinent part that violating any tule adopted by the board or the department constitutes grounds for disciplinary action. 18. Based upon the foregoing, Respondent has violated Section 481.225(1), Florida Statutes and Rules 61G1-23.010 and 61G1-23.030(2) , Florida Administrative Code. by attempting to act as the architect in responsible supervisory control of more than one office 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. wy . . t . . Signed this 1s day of December 2003 tof Business and Professional Regulation E Oeparimen LERK LA os PCP: jalislos CEU yn | Ded KA Reank (2 pnt Michele DAVID K. MINACCI MN BIER ; Smith, Thompson, Shaw & Manausa, P.A. \Q-A-2003__ 2075 Centre Pointe Blvd. Wir L bare Tallahassee, FL 32308-4893 { FL Bar No. 0056774 Hatt (Ph) (850) 402-1570 (Fax) (850) 402-1508

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