Tennessee · Architect seal requirements
Tennessee Architect seal requirements: size, wording, and the rule that sets them
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Architects in Tennessee seal under Rule 0120-02-.08 (Seals), administered by the State Board of Examiners for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors. The seal reads “REGISTERED ARCHITECT”. The rule prescribes the seal by illustration and states no diameter.
The 1⅝-to-1⅞-inch range quoted for Tennessee has no source in the rules: the words "inch", "diameter" and "size" appear nowhere in chapters 0120-01 or 0120-02. The two-inch figure belongs to the land surveyor rule. The Secretary of State still publishes the rule-maker as the State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners (Title 0120), while the board's own page uses the name State Board of Examiners for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors.
Tennessee Architect seal
- Seal rule
- Rule 0120-02-.08 (Seals)
- Legend
- “REGISTERED ARCHITECT”
- Diameter
- The rule prescribes the seal by illustration and states no diameter.
- Expiration date
- The architect illustration is the engineer layout with "REGISTERED ARCHITECT" on the inner band. Name, license number and "STATE OF TENNESSEE" only.(Rule 0120-02-.08(1)(b))
- Signature date
- Architects share Chapter 0120-02 with engineers, so the same signature-and-date-of-signature provision applies.(Rule 0120-02-.08(3); Rule 0120-02-.01(1))
- City on seal
- The rule does not require a city on the seal.(Rule 0120-02-.08(1)(b))
- The architect's illustration matches the engineer's layout with the inner band reading "REGISTERED ARCHITECT": the registrant's name on the top arc, the Great Seal of Tennessee in the center, and "STATE OF TENNESSEE" on the bottom arc.(Rule 0120-02-.08(1)(b))
- Architects, engineers and landscape architects share Chapter 0120-02, so the signature, dating and stamping provisions are the same for all three.(Rule 0120-02-.01(1))
- The seal graphic shall not include the registrant's signature or date of signature.(Rule 0120-02-.08(8)(a))
Tennessee architect seal questions
Does a Tennessee architect's seal say "Registered Architect"?▾
Yes, and only that. Rule 0120-02-.08(1) prescribes each seal by picture rather than by words, and the architect's picture at (1)(b) carries "REGISTERED ARCHITECT" on the inner band. "Licensed Architect", a plain "Architect" and "R.A." appear nowhere in the chapter, so an architect who brings a stamp in from another state usually has the wrong legend rather than the wrong layout. (Rule 0120-02-.08(1)(b))
What sits in the center of a Tennessee architect's seal?▾
The Great Seal of Tennessee device — the group lettered "AGRICULTURE" above the riverboat group lettered "COMMERCE". Because Tennessee prescribes the architect's seal by illustration rather than by a list of contents, that artwork is part of the required design and a ring of type on its own does not reproduce it. Around the device, the registrant's name arcs the top of the outer band and "STATE OF TENNESSEE" arcs the bottom, with "No." and the license number beneath the center — the reverse of the arrangement most states use. (Rule 0120-02-.08(1)(b))
Is there a required diameter for a Tennessee architect's seal?▾
None is stated anywhere. The words "inch", "diameter" and "size" do not appear in the chapter that governs architects, so the 1⅝-to-1⅞-inch range quoted for Tennessee has no source; neither does the two-inch figure, which belongs to the land surveyors' separate chapter and a different profession. What an architect's stamp has to satisfy is conformity to the prescribed illustration. (Rule 0120-02-.08(1)(b); cf. Rule 0820-04-.08(2))
Where do the signature and date go on a Tennessee architect's seal?▾
Across it. Chapter 0120-02 applies by its own terms to any person registered to practice architecture, so this is the architect's provision and not a borrowed one: the registrant superimposes the signature — not a rubber stamp — and the date of signature across the face and beyond the circumference of the seal. Only an electronically generated signature and date may instead be placed adjacent to the seal; the handwritten provision offers no adjacent option, so a date parked in the title block does not satisfy it. (Rule 0120-02-.08(3), (8)(b); Rule 0120-02-.01(1))
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