22 Tex. Admin. Code § 5.134 - Business Registration
(a) An Interior
Design firm or other business entity that uses the title "registered interior
designer" to describe itself or which offers or renders the services described
as those of a Registered Interior Designer must annually register information
regarding the firm or business entity with the Board, including an email
address to which all correspondence from the Board will be sent.
(b) A Registered Interior Designer or a
Registered Interior Design firm which enters into an agreement to create a
business association pursuant to §
5.132 of this title (relating to
Association) shall annually register the association with the Board, including
an email address to which all correspondence from the Board will be
sent.
(c) If a Registered Interior
Design firm, business entity, or association dissolves or otherwise becomes
unable to lawfully use the title "registered interior designer" to describe
itself, the Registered Interior Design firm, business entity, or association
shall so notify the Board in writing. Such notification must be postmarked or
otherwise provided within 30 days of the date of dissolution or the date the
Registered Interior Design firm, business entity, or association became unable
to lawfully use the title "registered interior designer" and to offer or render
the services described as those of a Registered Interior Designer. A business
entity or association may not continue to use the title "registered interior
designer" or offer or render the services of a Registered Interior Designer
unless it employs or contracts with a Registered Interior Designer and updates
its registration within that 30 day period.
(d) A Registered Interior Designer who is a
sole practitioner doing business under his/her own name, which is registered
with the Board, is exempt from the requirements of subsections (a) - (c) of
this section.
(e) Each Registered
Interior Design firm, business entity, or association shall annually renew its
unexpired registration and pay a renewal fee not later than the anniversary of
the date of its initial registration. Each Registered Interior Design firm,
business entity, and association shall pay a registration renewal fee to renew
an expired registration in an amount equal to 1-1/2 times the normally required
renewal fee if registration has been expired for 90 days or less and in an
amount equal to twice the normally required renewal fee if the registration has
been expired for longer than 90 days. A firm, business entity, or association
which offers or renders two or more professional disciplines regulated by the
Board shall pay a single registration fee.
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