Vermont · Architect seal requirements
Vermont Architect seal requirements: size, wording, and the rule that sets them
As of
Architects in Vermont seal under Administrative Rules of the Vermont Board of Architects, Rule 3.2 (License Certificates and Seals), eff. May 19, 1999, administered by the Vermont Board of Architects. Rule 3.2 prescribes no size for the architect's seal.
26 V.S.A. § 1163 is "Exemptions" and says nothing about seals; the seal statute is 26 V.S.A. § 1188. Justia and Cornell index the Board's rules as CVR 04-030-100, but that designation could not be read on a State-published page, so the rule is cited here by name and section. CVR 04-030-242 is not the engineering board.
Vermont Architect seal
- Diameter
- Rule 3.2 prescribes no size for the architect's seal.
- Expiration date
- The Office issues each architect an exact replica of the State seal design and the architect adds only their own name, so nothing licensee-specific beyond the name is on it.(Rule 3.2 (Administrative Rules of the Vermont Board of Architects, eff. May 19, 1999))
- Signature date
- The rule and the statute require only that the seal be stamped on plans and specifications. Neither requires a signature or a date.(Rule 3.2; 26 V.S.A. § 208)
- City on seal
- The seal is the Office's uniform design plus the architect's name — the only licensee-specific element the rule adds. The architect must display the certificate at the principal place of practice and report a business address to the Office, but neither reaches the seal.(Rule 3.2; Rule 3.3)
- After an applicant is approved for licensure as an architect, the Office will send him or her an exact replica of the seal design to be used in the State of Vermont. The architect must then purchase a seal which impresses the same design, plus the architect's name, and send an impression to the Office for filing.(Rule 3.2)
- The rule prescribes no legend wording of its own. The design is the replica the Office issues, with the architect's name added to it.(Rule 3.2)
- The seal must be stamped on all plans and specifications prepared or directly supervised by the licensed architect, and an architect may not stamp the seal on plans or specifications not prepared or directly supervised by that architect.(Rule 3.2)
- A seal may not be used if the architect's license is not currently valid.(Rule 3.2)
- The statute requires plans and specifications to be stamped with the licensee's seal. Neither it nor Rule 3.2 requires a signature or a date.(26 V.S.A. § 208; Rule 3.2)
Vermont architect seal questions
Can a Vermont architect choose their own seal design?▾
No — the Office of Professional Regulation supplies it. After an applicant is approved for licensure, the Office sends the architect an exact replica of the seal design to be used in the State of Vermont, and the seal the architect puts into use impresses that same design plus the architect's name. There is no legend to choose and no artwork to specify: the only licensee-specific element the rule adds to the issued design is the name, so a Vermont architect's seal reproduces the replica the Office issued rather than a written specification an architect can build a design from. (Rule 3.2)
Does the Office of Professional Regulation hold a copy of a Vermont architect's seal?▾
Yes, and filing it is the step most often missed. Rule 3.2 requires the architect to send an impression of the seal to the Office for filing, so the Office holds that impression against the design it issued. The filed impression is the reference for the seal a Vermont architect puts on a drawing: it has to be the design the Office issued and the design the impression on file records, not a version rebuilt to look close to it. (Rule 3.2)
Does a Vermont architect's seal need the license number?▾
The rule does not ask for one. Rule 3.2 prescribes the design the Office issues plus the architect's name, and it states no legend wording, no diameter and no license number; the statute behind it requires only a seal of such design as the Board shall authorize and direct. Whatever the issued replica shows is the specification, so a Vermont architect cannot answer this question from the rule text alone the way a licensee in most states can. (Rule 3.2; 26 V.S.A. § 208)
Do Vermont architects have to sign and date sealed plans?▾
Neither the rule nor the statute requires it. Both say only that plans and specifications prepared by or under the direct supervision of the licensed architect shall be stamped with the licensee's seal. That is a real divergence from Vermont's engineering board, whose rule defines sealing as the application of the seal and the signature and requires instruments of service to be labeled as to purpose — none of which is imposed on architects. (Rule 3.2; 26 V.S.A. § 208; cf. Vermont Board of Professional Engineering Rule 2.7(a), (e))
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