SECTION 5.157. Prevention of Unauthorized Practice

(a) A Registered Interior Designer shall not practice or offer to practice Interior Design in any governmental jurisdiction in which to do so would be in violation of a law regulating the practice of Interior Design in that jurisdiction.

(b) The revocation, suspension, refusal to renew, or denial of a registration to practice Interior Design in another jurisdiction shall be sufficient cause for the revocation, suspension, refusal to renew, or denial of a registration to practice Interior Design in the State of Texas.

(c) A Registered Interior Designer who fails to renew his/her certificate of registration prior to its annual expiration date shall not use the title " registered interior designer" to describe himself/herself until after the Registered Interior Designer's certificate of registration has been properly renewed.

Source Note: The provisions of this §5.157 adopted to be effective March 1, 2001, 26 TexReg 1726; amended to be effective July 5, 2004, 29 TexReg 6290; amended to be effective June 13, 2010, 35 TexReg 4709