Maryland · Landscape Architect seal requirements
Maryland Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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Maryland prescribes contents but no wording and no size. COMAR 09.28.01.05A requires every licensed landscape architect to obtain an individual seal whose impression carries the landscape architect's name and license number — nothing else — and Business Occupations and Professions Article § 9-501 requires the licensee to sign, seal and date every final drawing, plan, specification, report or other document before issuing it to a client or submitting it to a public authority. Neither the statute nor the regulation states a diameter.
COMAR 09.23.03.11, the citation usually given for the Maryland engineer seal, is "Failure to Respond" and has nothing to do with seals. The seal itself is COMAR 09.23.01.03, in the procedural regulations; signing and sealing is 09.23.03.09 and the titleblock is 09.23.03.10. COMAR 09.28.01.05 was adopted effective October 7, 1985 and has not been amended since; it predates the Board's move from DLLR to the Maryland Department of Labor, so older citations appear under Title 09, Subtitle 28 of either department name.
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Maryland Landscape Architect seal
- Seal requirements
- Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 9-501; COMAR 09.28.01.05
- Diameter
- No diameter is prescribed. COMAR 09.28.01.05A specifies only that the seal imprint the landscape architect's name and license number, and Business Occupations and Professions Article § 9-501, the statute it implements, states no dimension.
- Expiration date
- COMAR 09.28.01.05A limits the imprint to the landscape architect's name and license number, and § 9-501 adds no content requirement. Neither mentions an expiration or renewal date.(COMAR 09.28.01.05A; Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 9-501)
- Signature date
- § 9-501 requires the licensee who prepared or approved the document to sign, seal and date it before issuing it to a client or submitting it to a public authority.(Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 9-501)
- City on seal
- Neither § 9-501 nor COMAR 09.28.01.05 mentions a city, place of business or address.(Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 9-501; COMAR 09.28.01.05)
- "Before a licensed landscape architect issues to a client or submits to a public authority any final drawing, plan, specification, report, or other document, the licensed landscape architect who prepared or approved the document shall sign, seal, and date the document."(Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 9-501)
- "For the purpose of sealing and signing all final drawings, plans, specifications, reports, and other contract documents, referred to in Business Occupations and Professions Article, §9-501, Annotated Code of Maryland, each licensed landscape architect shall obtain an individual seal to be used on documents prepared by the licensee or under the licensee's supervision. The seal shall imprint the name of the landscape architect and the license number."(COMAR 09.28.01.05A)
- "A rubber stamp facsimile of the seal and the live signature of the landscape architect may be applied to tracings to produce legible reproduction of the drawings or to prints made from the tracings. This provision, however, does not in any manner modify the requirements of Business Occupations and Professions Article, §9-501, Annotated Code of Maryland, in reference to use of the impression seal and signature."(COMAR 09.28.01.05B)
- No electronic or digital seal provision exists in the Board's regulations. Chapter 09.28.01 contains five sections — .01 Definitions, .02 Filing of Applications, .03 Examinations, .04 Qualifications for Examination and .05 Embossing Seals and Rubber Stamp Facsimiles — and the only facsimile authorised anywhere in the chapter is the rubber stamp described in .05B. The Board's other chapters are 09.28.02 Code of Ethics, 09.28.03 Fees and 09.28.04 Continuing Professional Competency Requirements; the Code of Ethics chapter contains no sealing section.(COMAR 09.28.01; COMAR 09.28.02)
Maryland landscape architect seal questions
Can a rubber stamp replace the embossing seal?▾
Not generally. COMAR 09.28.01.05B permits a rubber stamp facsimile together with the live signature only on tracings, to produce legible reproductions, and states expressly that this "does not in any manner modify the requirements of Business Occupations and Professions Article, §9-501 ... in reference to use of the impression seal and signature." (COMAR 09.28.01.05B)
Does the rule prescribe any wording for the seal?▾
No. COMAR 09.28.01.05A prescribes only two items of content — the landscape architect's name and the license number. No legend such as "licensed landscape architect" or "State of Maryland" is required by the rule. (COMAR 09.28.01.05A)