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Virginia Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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Virginia licenses landscape architects through the APELSCIDLA Board, and 18VAC10-20-760 F requires the seal to conform in detail and size to the design illustrated in the rule and to be two inches in diameter. The landscape architect design carries "Commonwealth of Virginia" around the top and "Landscape Architect" around the bottom, with the licensee's name and "Lic. No." — the last six digits of the license number — in the centre. All final documents must be sealed, signed and dated, and must also bear the professional's name or firm name, address and project name.
18VAC10-20-740 is "Professional responsibility", not the seal rule, and 18VAC10-20-750 is repealed; the seal provision is 18VAC10-20-760. The APELSCIDLA board's general review of 18VAC10-20 took effect May 1, 2026 (Virginia Register Vol. 42, Issue 16), which also repealed 18VAC10-20-780 and added 18VAC10-20-785. Any copy of the chapter dated before that is stale. 18VAC10-20-760 was most recently amended effective May 1, 2026 (Virginia Register Volume 42, Issue 16). The rule is a single seal section covering every profession the board regulates; the landscape architect design is one of seven illustrated in subsection F, so the architect and engineer illustrations on the same page are not interchangeable with it.
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Virginia Landscape Architect seal
- Seal requirements
- 18VAC10-20-760
- Legend
- “Commonwealth of Virginia, Landscape Architect”
- Diameter
- The original seal must conform in detail and size to the design illustrated in the rule and must be two inches in diameter.
- Expiration date
- The illustrated design that the seal must conform to "in detail" carries only the state name, the professional title, the licensee's name and the license number; no expiration or renewal date appears in it.(18VAC10-20-760 F)
- Signature date
- The seal, the signature and the date are treated as a single act throughout the section: all final documents must be sealed, signed and dated, and affixing them indicates direct control, personal supervision and acceptance of responsibility.(18VAC10-20-760 A, B 1)
- City on seal
- No city appears in the illustrated seal design. An address is required, but on the document rather than on the seal: all final documents must also bear the professional's name or firm name, address and project name.(18VAC10-20-760 B 1, F)
- "The original seal must conform in detail and size to the design illustrated in this subsection and must be two inches in diameter." The landscape architect design illustrated in the rule is a circular seal reading COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA around the top and LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT around the bottom, with the licensee's name and "Lic. No." in the centre.(18VAC10-20-760 F)
- The number shown on the seal is the last six-digit number as shown on the license or certificate; the number is permanent, and leading zeros contained in the six-digit number may be omitted from the seal.(18VAC10-20-760 F (note))
- "Affixing of a professional seal, signature, and date will indicate that the professional has exercised direct control and personal supervision over the work to which it is affixed. Affixing of the seal, signature, and date also indicates the professional's acceptance of responsibility for the work shown."(18VAC10-20-760 A)
- All final documents — including the cover sheet of plans, plats, documents, drawings, technical reports and specifications, and each sheet of plans, plats or drawings — must be sealed, signed and dated by the professional, and must also bear the professional's name or firm name, address, and project name.(18VAC10-20-760 B 1)
- For projects involving multiple professional services, each professional must seal, sign and date the final documents for the work component that professional completed or supervised, and the professional responsible for compiling the project must seal, sign and date the cover sheet of the aggregate collection of final documents.(18VAC10-20-760 B 2)
- An electronic seal, signature and date may be used in lieu of an original where it is a unique identification of the professional, it is verifiable, and it is under the professional's direct control.(18VAC10-20-760 C)
- Incomplete plans, plats, documents and drawings, whether advance or preliminary copies, must be identified as not complete and need not be sealed, signed or dated.(18VAC10-20-760 D)
- All work performed by a professional licensed or certified by the board, including work that is exempt from licensure under § 54.1-402 of the Code of Virginia, must be sealed, signed and dated pursuant to subsection B.(18VAC10-20-760 E)
- No professional may seal, sign and date work prepared by an unlicensed person unless that work was performed under the professional's direct control and personal supervision while the unlicensed person was an employee of the same firm or under written contract to that firm.(18VAC10-20-760 A 1)
Virginia landscape architect seal questions
Which license number goes on a Virginia seal?▾
Not the full number as printed on the wall certificate — 18VAC10-20-760 F specifies the last six digits of the license number, and permits leading zeros within those six digits to be omitted. (18VAC10-20-760 F (note))
Is sealing the drawings enough?▾
No. 18VAC10-20-760 B 1 also requires every final document to bear the professional's name or firm name, address and project name, which sits outside the two-inch seal. (18VAC10-20-760 B 1)
Does an exemption from licensure remove the sealing duty?▾
No. 18VAC10-20-760 E applies the sealing requirement to all work performed by a professional licensed or certified by the board, including work that is exempt from licensure under § 54.1-402 of the Code of Virginia. (18VAC10-20-760 E)
Are two inches a minimum?▾
No. Virginia states an exact size — the seal "must be two inches in diameter" and must conform in detail and size to the illustrated design — rather than a floor of the kind most states use. (18VAC10-20-760 F)