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Alabama Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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Alabama licenses landscape architects through the Alabama State Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects, and the seal design lives in a board rule rather than the statute. Rule 500-X-2-.07(3)(a) fixes the wording — "STATE OF ALABAMA" at the top of a 1/4-inch outer ring and "REGISTERED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT" at the bottom, with the registrant's name above a horizontal line and the registration number below it — and fixes the outside diameter at 2 inches. Ala. Code § 34-17-4(a) requires that all final drawings, specifications, plans, reports and other documents issued or filed for public record be dated and bear the landscape architect's signature and seal.
Chapter 330-X-11 is still published under the Board's former name, Alabama State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Seals obtained before the rule was adopted that conform to prior Board rules remain acceptable. The seal provisions sit inside a rule titled "Granting Of License To Practice Landscape Architecture" (500-X-2-.07), not in a rule named for seals; subsections (3)(a) and (3)(b) are the only seal design provisions in the board's administrative code.
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Alabama Landscape Architect seal
- Seal requirements
- Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3); Ala. Code § 34-17-4(a)
- Legend
- “State of Alabama, Registered Landscape Architect”
- Diameter
- The seal shall have an outside diameter of 2 inches, with a 1/16-inch solid border on the outside edge and another 1/16-inch solid inner border defining a 1/4-inch outer ring.
- Expiration date
- Rule 500-X-2-.07(3)(a) enumerates exactly what the seal bears — name, registration number, "Registered Landscape Architect" and "State of Alabama" — and no expiration or renewal date appears there or anywhere else in Chapter 500-X-2. Chapter 500-X-1 contains no seal rule at all.(Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(a); ch. 500-X-1)
- Signature date
- Documents issued or filed for public record must be dated as well as signed and sealed; the rule separately allows an electronically generated signature and date of signature.(Ala. Code § 34-17-4(a); Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(b))
- City on seal
- No city, county or place of business appears in the prescribed seal contents.(Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(a))
- All final drawings, specifications, plans, reports, or other papers or documents involving the practice of landscape architecture, as defined in Section 34-17-1, when issued or filed for public record, shall be dated and bear the signature and seal of the landscape architect or landscape architects who prepared or approved them.(Ala. Code § 34-17-4(a))
- The seal must bear the registrant's name, the registrant's registration number, the words "Registered Landscape Architect", and the words "State of Alabama".(Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(a))
- The seal shall have an outside diameter of 2" with a solid border 1/16" wide on the outside edge. There shall be another 1/16" solid inner border defining a 1/4" outer ring wherein "STATE OF ALABAMA" is at the top and "REGISTERED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT" is at the bottom.(Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(a))
- The center circle will then be divided at the center with a horizontal line with name above and number below the line.(Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(a))
- The license certificate will indicate the registration number of the landscape architect. This registration number must appear on the landscape architect's seal and on all works signed by the landscape architect.(Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3); see also r. 500-X-2-.02(3)(b))
- The registrant may affix an electronically generated signature and date of signature to documents; provided, however, that the registrant utilizes a secure method of affixation and provided that the registrant does not authorize any other person to so affix his signature and date. The registrant is responsible for verifying the integrity of the documents and for providing a verification mechanism to the user.(Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(b))
Alabama landscape architect seal questions
Is your seal actually 2 inches across?▾
Alabama prescribes a 2-inch outside diameter, along with a 1/16-inch outer border, a second 1/16-inch inner border, and a 1/4-inch outer ring carrying the wording. A 1.5-inch or 1.75-inch stamp of the kind sold for neighbouring states does not meet the rule. (Ala. Admin. Code r. 500-X-2-.07(3)(a))
Are you reading the board's seal or the licensee's seal?▾
Ala. Code § 34-17-3(e) permits the board to adopt a seal "for use in transacting its official business." That is the agency's own seal and imposes nothing on a landscape architect's stamp. (Ala. Code § 34-17-3(e))