Kentucky · Landscape Architect seal requirements
Kentucky Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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KRS 323A.080 requires every licensed landscape architect to secure a seal of the design prescribed by the board's regulation and to sign and seal all working drawings, specifications and reports. That design is set by 201 KAR 10:070 Section 1: a seal two inches in diameter carrying "State of Kentucky" at the top between the two knurled circles, "Licensed Landscape Architect" at the bottom, the individual's name horizontally in the circular field and the license number horizontally beneath the name. Section 2 permits an embossing seal, a rubber stamp seal or an electronically generated seal.
The design of the Kentucky engineer's and land surveyor's seal is not printed in the code. 201 KAR 18:104 § 5 says only that stamps and seals "shall be similar in design and conform to the size restrictions established in Approved Stamps and Seals, 1999," and § 6 incorporates that document by reference, inspectable or obtainable only at the Board's office at 160 Democrat Drive, Frankfort. It is not published online. Everything stated here about the engineer's and surveyor's seal layout therefore comes from the statutory legend in KRS 322.340(1) and from the two sample seals the Board itself publishes on its Approved Stamps and Seals page, not from the incorporated document. The Board's legal name in KRS 322.230 is the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; 201 KAR 18:104 § 6(2) calls it the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, its own site opens with "Kentucky State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors", and the site header brands it "Kentucky Board of Engineers & Land Surveyors" — three renderings of one board. 201 KAR 10:070 was amended effective 7-30-2024 (50 Ky.R. 1749) and carries a seven-year expiration date of 7-30-2031. The regulation's necessity statement still paraphrases the pre-2014 statute, which spoke of an "embossed circular seal"; the operative statute today prescribes no form, and Section 2(1) of the regulation expressly allows a rubber stamp or electronically generated seal as alternatives to embossing.
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Kentucky Landscape Architect seal
- Seal requirements
- KRS 323A.080; 201 KAR 10:070
- Legend
- “State of Kentucky, Licensed Landscape Architect”
- Diameter
- The seal shall be two (2) inches in diameter.
- Expiration date
- Section 1(2) lists the four things the impression must contain - the two legends, the name and the license number - and nothing else. No expiration or renewal date is called for.(201 KAR 10:070 Section 1(2))
- Signature date
- KRS 323A.080(2) requires the landscape architect to sign and seal the drawings, specifications and reports, but neither the statute nor 201 KAR 10:070 requires a date with the signature.(KRS 323A.080(2); 201 KAR 10:070 Section 1)
- City on seal
- The prescribed impression is limited to the two legends, the name and the license number.(201 KAR 10:070 Section 1(2))
- Each landscape architect licensed to practice within the Commonwealth shall secure a seal of the design prescribed by the administrative regulation of the board.(KRS 323A.080(1))
- Each landscape architect shall sign and seal all working drawings, specifications, and reports prepared by the landscape architect or under his or her supervision.(KRS 323A.080(2))
- The seal shall be two (2) inches in diameter and shall contain in the impression of the seal the words "State of Kentucky" at the top between the two (2) knurled circles; the words "Licensed Landscape Architect" in a like position at the bottom; the individual's name placed horizontally in the circular field; and the individual's license number placed horizontally beneath the name.(201 KAR 10:070 Section 1)
- The seal shall be an individual embossing seal, a rubber stamp seal, or an electronically generated seal.(201 KAR 10:070 Section 2(1))
- An electronically generated seal shall be used only if it is a unique identification of the landscape architect, is verifiable, is under the landscape architect's direct and sole control, and is linked to a document so that changes are readily determined and visually displayed if any data in the document file was changed after the seal was affixed.(201 KAR 10:070 Section 2(2)(a)-(d))
- Changes to the document after affixing the electronically generated seal must cause the seal to be removed or altered in a way that invalidates the seal, and once the seal is applied the document shall be available in a view-only format.(201 KAR 10:070 Section 2(2)(e)-(f))
Kentucky landscape architect seal questions
Will a flat image of your seal dropped into a PDF satisfy Kentucky's electronic seal rule?▾
Only if the whole package behaves as the rule requires: the seal must be under the landscape architect's direct and sole control, later changes must remove or alter the seal, and the sealed document must be available in a view-only format. (201 KAR 10:070 Section 2(2)(c), (e), (f))
Does the statute describe the seal itself?▾
No. Since the 2014 amendment KRS 323A.080(1) requires only "a seal of the design prescribed by the administrative regulation of the board" - every dimension and word of the design sits in 201 KAR 10:070. (KRS 323A.080(1))