Vermont · Landscape Architect seal requirements
Vermont Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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Vermont licenses landscape architects through the Secretary of State's Office of Professional Regulation, and 26 V.S.A. § 2628 is the whole of the seal law: each licensee must obtain "a seal of a design as the Director shall authorize and direct", and plans and specifications prepared by or under the licensee's direct supervision must be stamped with that seal. No wording and no diameter are prescribed — the statute states none, and OPR's own landscape architect statutes-and-rules page publishes no landscape architect rule that supplies one.
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 has no landscape architects board. The profession is regulated by the Director of the Office of Professional Regulation with landscape architect advisor appointees under 26 V.S.A. §§ 2621–2622, which is why the seal design is delegated to the Director rather than to a board rule.
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Vermont Landscape Architect seal
- Seal requirements
- 26 V.S.A. § 2628
- Diameter
- No diameter is prescribed. 26 V.S.A. § 2628 delegates the seal's design to the Director of the Office of Professional Regulation and states no dimension, and OPR's Landscape Architect statutes-and-rules page lists only Chapter 46, the general professions statutes and two OPR-wide procedural rules — no landscape architect rule prescribing a seal design.
- Expiration date
- § 2628 prescribes no content for the seal at all, so no expiration or renewal date is required by the statute; OPR publishes no landscape architect rule adding one.(26 V.S.A. § 2628)
- Signature date
- § 2628 requires only that plans and specifications be "stamped with" the seal; it imposes no separate signature or dating requirement, and no landscape architect rule adding one is published by OPR.(26 V.S.A. § 2628)
- City on seal
- § 2628 prescribes no seal content, so no city or place of business is required.(26 V.S.A. § 2628)
- "Each licensed landscape architect shall obtain a seal of a design as the Director shall authorize and direct. Plans and specifications prepared by or under the direct supervision of a licensed landscape architect shall be stamped with the licensed landscape architect's seal."(26 V.S.A. § 2628)
- No person licensed under the chapter shall stamp or seal documents with his or her landscape architect seal if the license has expired or is revoked or suspended.(26 V.S.A. § 2612(b)(1))
- It is unprofessional conduct to use the licensed landscape architect's seal on drawings prepared by others not in his or her employ, or to use the seal of another.(26 V.S.A. § 2629(13))
- It is unprofessional conduct to sign or seal technical submissions unless they were prepared by or under the responsible control of the licensed landscape architect, except that the licensee may sign or seal those portions prepared by or under the responsible control of other licensees where the licensee has reviewed and adopted them and has either coordinated their preparation or integrated them into his or her work.(26 V.S.A. § 2629(15))
Vermont landscape architect seal questions
Is there an official Vermont seal design to copy?▾
26 V.S.A. § 2628 leaves the design to whatever "the Director shall authorize and direct", and the Office of Professional Regulation publishes no landscape architect rule setting one out, so no legend or diameter has been fixed in any published source. (26 V.S.A. § 2628)
Does a lapsed Vermont license just stop new work?▾
No — 26 V.S.A. § 2612(b)(1) makes it a separate prohibited act to stamp or seal documents with the landscape architect seal while the license is expired, revoked or suspended. (26 V.S.A. § 2612(b)(1))