Kansas. State Board of Technical Professions

The Kansas State Board of Technical Professions, established in 1976, took over and combined the duties of several governing boards that had existed separately for the regulation and licensing of specific professions. These boards included the State Board for Registration and Examination of Landscape Architects (started in 1968), the State Registration and Examining Board for Architects, created in 1949, and the State Board of Engineering Examiners, created in 1947 in order to take over the duties of another previously existing board, the State Registration and Examining Board for Professional Engineers (1931-1947). The current Kansas Board of Technical Professions establishes and maintains a high standard of integrity, skills and practice in the technical professions and safeguards the life, health, property and welfare of the public. Its mission is to provide maximum protection for the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Kansas by assuring that the practices of engineering, architecture, land surveying, landscape architecture, and geology in the state are carried out only by those persons who are proven to be qualified as prescribed by the statutes and rules and regulations of the Board of Technical Professions. [Kansas State Board of Technical Professions. http://www.kansas.gov/ksbtp/ (accessed 26 February 2009).] [Wilder, Bessie. Governmental Agencies of the State of Kansas, 1861-1956. Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1957.]