STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, Petitioner, JULIE WAKELY AND WAKELY & COMPANY, Respondents. / ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, ("Petitioner"), files this Administrative Complaint before the Board of Architecture and Interior Design against JULIE WAKELY and WAKELY & COMPANY, (“Respondents”), and says: 1. Petitioner is the state agency charged with regulating the practice of 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 1400 Gulf Shore Boulevard, N. Apt. 302, Naples, Florida 34102. 4, At all times material hereto, Respondents were not duly registered or certified to engage in the practice of interior design in the State of Florida pursuant to Chapter 481, Florida Statutes. 5. As of April 13, 2006, Respondents are offering interior design services on their web page from its offices in Naples, Florida. 6. Respondent Julie Wakely holds herself out ds an interior designer throughout the website. 7. Respondents state on their website it provided design services for Charleston Square, a condominium project in Naples, Florida. 8. Neither of the Respondents are licensed in the State of Florida to either offer or provide interior design service. COUNT I 9, Petitioner hereby realleges and incorporates paragraphs one (1) through eight (8) as if fully set forth herein. 10. Section 481.223(1)(b), Florida Statutes, states that a person may not knowingly practice interior design, when the person is not then the holder of a valid license. 1]. Based upon the foregoing, the Respondents have violated Section 481.223(1)(b), Florida Statutes, by practicing interior design when they were not the holder of a valid license. COUNT II 12. Petitioner hereby realleges and incorporates paragraphs one (1) through eight (8) as if fully set forth herein. 13, Section 481.223(1)(c), Florida Statutes, states that a person may not knowingly “use the name or title ‘interior designer’ or ‘registered interior designer’ or words to that effect, when the person is not then the holder of a valid license.” 14. Based upon the foregoing, the Respondents have violated Section 481.223(1)(c), Florida Statutes, by using the name or title “interior designer”, when they were not they were not the holder of a valid license. COUNT Ill 15. Petitioner hereby realleges and incorporates paragraphs one (1) through eight (8) as if fully set forth herein. 16. Section 481.219(3), Florida Statutes, states a corporation, partnership, or a person practicing under a fictitious name, offering interior design services to the public must obtain a certificate of authorization. 17. Based upon the foregoing, Respondent, Wakely & Company, has violated Section 481.219(3), Florida Statutes, by offering interior design services when it was not the holder of a valid certificate of authorization. WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests the Board enter an Order imposing an administrative fine not to exceed $5,000 per count, 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. #® Signed this 7 dayof Ala , 2006, FILED QOD Department of Businass and Professional Regulatio. “_ "AGENCY CLERK DAVID K. MINACCI Smith, Thompson, Shaw & Manausa, P.A. 5 3 \ low 2075 Centre Pointe Blvd. Tallahassee, FL 32308-4893 4 5 f be p CEU RR Sowda Le Webmin FL Bar No. 0056774 (Que Ney -/0-2006 Ph: (850) 402-1570 Ne coke“ 10-2 00) Fax: (850) 402-1508

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