Idaho · Landscape Architect seal requirements
Idaho Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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Idaho fixes the landscape architect's seal wording in statute: Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b) requires a board-approved seal containing the licensee's name and the words "Licensed Landscape Architect, State of Idaho." The statute prescribes no diameter and IDAPA 24.01.01 contains no seal rule, but the board's published approved design is 1.75 inches on full-sized documents. The written signature and the date must be adjacent to or across the seal on all final reports, drawings and title pages of specifications.
Idaho publishes no seal artwork for any of the three professions. The contact block on the cover of that chapter prints the board's website as https://dopl.idaho.gov/pht/, which is the Physical Therapy Board; the working address is https://dopl.idaho.gov/ipels/, and the older ipels.idaho.gov host no longer resolves at all. Landscape architects are not regulated by a stand-alone board: IDAPA 24.01.01 (eff. 7-1-24) is the rule chapter of the combined Board of Architects and Landscape Architects, and it delegates nothing on seals — the whole seal regime sits in the statute plus the board's published approved design.
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Idaho Landscape Architect seal
- Seal requirements
- Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b); IDAPA 24.01.01
- Legend
- “Licensed Landscape Architect, State of Idaho”
- Diameter
- Idaho Code § 54-3003 prescribes no diameter, and IDAPA 24.01.01 — the only rule chapter of the Board of Architects and Landscape Architects — contains no seal rule at all. The statute instead requires "a seal approved by the board"; the board's published seal document states that the only board-approved seal "should have a diameter of 1.75 inches when applied to full-sized documents."
- Expiration date
- Section 54-3003(9)(b) enumerates the seal's contents — name and the words "Licensed Landscape Architect, State of Idaho" — and no expiration date; the board's approved design shows the license number but no expiry. IDAPA 24.01.01 adds no seal rule.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b); IDAPA 24.01.01)
- Signature date
- The date is required next to the seal, not on it: "the licensee's written signature and the date shall be adjacent to or across the seal."(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- City on seal
- No place of business or city appears in the statutory list of seal contents or in the board's approved design.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- "Every landscape architect shall have a seal approved by the board that contains the name of the landscape architect and the words 'Licensed Landscape Architect, State of Idaho,' and such other words or figures as the board may deem necessary and prescribe."(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- The seal may be a rubber stamp or an electronically applied seal.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- Whenever the seal is applied, the licensee's written signature and the date shall be adjacent to or across the seal.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- The seal, signature and date shall be placed on all final reports, drawings and title pages of specifications, design information and calculations. Documents presented to a client or the public that are not final and carry no seal, signature and date must be clearly marked "preliminary," "draft," "not for construction" or similar words.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- Application of the seal, signature and date constitutes certification that the work was prepared by the landscape architect or under that landscape architect's supervision. Each plan or drawing sheet shall be sealed and signed by the licensee or the licensee's agent responsible for that sheet; the principal landscape architect in charge shall sign and seal the title or first sheet.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- Copies of electronically produced documents distributed for informational use, such as bidding copies or working copies, may be issued with the licensee's seal and a notice that the original document is on file with the licensee's signature and date. The words "original signed by:" and "date signed:" shall be placed adjacent to or across the seal of the electronic original, and the storage location of the original documents shall be provided.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- Only the title page of reports, specifications and like documents need bear the seal and signature of the licensee and the date.(Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))
- The board publishes a single approved seal design: the licensee's name in the centre with the license number below it, "STATE OF IDAHO" across the top and "LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT" across the bottom, at 1.75 inches diameter on full-sized documents.(DOPL, "The required 'seal' of an Idaho Landscape Architect")
- IDAPA 24.01.01, the rule chapter of the Board of Architects and Landscape Architects, was read in full: it contains only Legal Authority, Scope, Licensure, Practice Standards and Fees, and adds no seal rule of any kind.(IDAPA 24.01.01 (eff. 7-1-24))
Idaho landscape architect seal questions
What do licensees most often get wrong about Idaho seals?▾
Does the license number belong on an Idaho landscape architect's seal? The statute does not list it, but the board's single approved design shows it (as "LA-1234") beneath the name — the statute permits the board to prescribe "such other words or figures" it deems necessary. (Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b); DOPL, "The required 'seal' of an Idaho Landscape Architect") Can an unsealed drawing be handed to a client? Only if it is clearly marked "preliminary," "draft," "not for construction" or similar — an unmarked, unsealed document given to a client or the public breaches the statute. (Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b)) Is an electronic copy sealed the same way as the original? No — informational electronic copies must carry "original signed by:" and "date signed:" adjacent to or across the seal, plus the storage location of the original. (Idaho Code § 54-3003(9)(b))