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Wisconsin Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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Wisconsin's seal rule for landscape architects is the general registration-seal rule at Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02, not the landscape architect chapter (A-E 9 contains no seal provision). The seal must be between 1-5/8 and 2 inches in overall diameter and must include the credential holder's name, credential number and city; the design approved in A-E 2.02(2) carries "WISCONSIN" and "LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT" around the ring. Each sheet must be signed, sealed and dated, and public documents must be signed and dated in one of the three manners set out in A-E 2.02(7)(b).
The seal rule did not move in the 2024–2025 rewrite of the A-E chapters; it is still Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02, and it is the only seal rule in the series — chs. A-E 3, A-E 4 and A-E 6, the registration chapters for architects, professional engineers and professional land surveyors, contain no seal provisions at all. What changed is its substance: CR 24-001 (Register July 2024 No. 823, effective 1 August 2024) added registered interior designers to the board, to its legal name and to the approved seal designs, and CR 24-028 (Register May 2025 No. 833, effective 1 June 2025) repealed and recreated § A-E 2.02(3), repealed § A-E 2.02(7)(a) outright and rewrote § A-E 2.02(7)(b). Separately, § A-E 2.02(8) lets plans prepared by an architect or professional engineer credentialed in another state be filed here only if a Wisconsin credential holder attaches a certificate — itself dated, signed and sealed — describing the review performed and accepting responsibility for supervision of construction; that route does not extend to land surveying. The section as published in Register June 2026 No. 846 still carries the 1⅝-to-2-inch diameter and the 1987 specimen artwork, and the only later change to ch. A-E 2 is CR 25-082, which created § A-E 2.03(5) on certificates of authorization effective 1 July 2026 and left § A-E 2.02 untouched. The wording “WISCONSIN” and “LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT” is fixed by the approved designs illustrated in A-E 2.02(2) rather than spelled out in the running text of A-E 2.02(1), which lists only name, credential number and city. A-E 2.02 was last amended by CR 24-028 (Register May 2025 No. 833, eff. 6-1-25), which repealed and recreated sub. (3) and rewrote sub. (7)(b), following CR 24-001 (Register July 2024 No. 823, eff. 8-1-24); the chapter as read is published in Register June 2026 No. 846.
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Wisconsin Landscape Architect seal
- Legend
- “Wisconsin, Landscape Architect”
- Diameter
- "The overall diameter may not be less than 15/8 inches nor more than 2 inches."
- Expiration date
- A-E 2.02(1) prescribes the name, credential number and city, and nothing else; no expiration or renewal date appears in the rule or in the approved designs at A-E 2.02(2).(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(1), (2))
- Signature date
- A date of signing is required: each sheet "shall be signed, sealed, and dated," and every seal on a public document must be signed and dated in one of the three manners listed, each of which contains "the name of the credential holder and date."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(4), (7)(b))
- City on seal
- The city is a mandatory element of the seal face: "Each seal shall include the credential holder's name, credential number and city." The approved designs show it as the city plus "WIS."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(1), (2))
- "Each architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer, professional land surveyor, and registered interior designer shall obtain a seal that complies with board specifications for registration seals. The overall diameter may not be less than 15/8 inches nor more than 2 inches. Each seal shall include the credential holder's name, credential number and city."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(1))
- "The following designs for registration seals have been approved:" — the approved landscape architect design reproduced in the rule is a circular seal reading "WISCONSIN" around the top of the outer ring and "LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT" around the bottom, with the credential holder's name, credential number (shown as "LA-0000") and city on the inner field.(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(2))
- "The registration seal may be an embossing seal, an ink stamp seal, a digitally printed seal, or digitally embedded seal in an electronic file."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(3))
- "Each sheet of plans, drawings, documents, specifications, and reports for architectural, landscape architectural, professional engineering, design, professional land surveying, and registered interior design practice shall be signed, sealed, and dated by the credential holder who prepared, or directed and controlled preparation of, the written material, except as specified in sub. (5)."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(4))
- "If more than one sheet is bound together in a volume, the credential holder who prepared or directed and controlled the preparation of the volume, may sign, seal and date only the title or index sheet if the signed sheet identifies clearly all other sheets comprising the bound volume and if any other sheets which are prepared by or under the direction and control of another credential holder are signed, sealed and dated by the other credential holder."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(5))
- "Any addition, deletion or other revision to each sheet ... which affects public health and safety or any state or local code requirements may not be made unless signed, sealed and dated by the credential holder who made or directed and controlled the making of the revision."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(6))
- "All seals on plans, drawings, documents, specifications, and reports to be filed as public documents shall be signed and dated by the credential holder in one of the following manners: 1. Physical placement of a seal and a handwritten signature in permanent ink containing the name of the credential holder and date. 2. Digital placement of a seal and a handwritten signature in permanent ink containing the name of the credential holder and date. 3. Digital placement of a seal and an electronic signature containing the name of the credential holder and date."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(7)(b))
- "If other standards for signatures or seals are prescribed by statute, the statutes shall govern."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(7)(c))
- "No architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer, or registered interior designer may seal and sign any plans, drawings, documents, specifications or reports ... which are not prepared by the credential holder or under his or her personal direction and control."(Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 8.10(1))
- "No person who is registered under this chapter to practice architecture, landscape architecture or professional engineering may impress his or her seal or stamp upon documents which have not been prepared by the person or under his or her direction and control, knowingly permit his or her seal or stamp to be used by any other person or in any other manner knowingly aid or abet the unauthorized practice ..."(Wis. Stat. § 443.17(1))
- Chapter A-E 9, the rule chapter specific to landscape architect registration, contains no seal provision; its sections run from A-E 9.01 (authority and purpose) through A-E 9.06 (application contents). The seal rule for landscape architects is the general one at A-E 2.02.(Wis. Admin. Code ch. A-E 9)
Wisconsin landscape architect seal questions
Does a Wisconsin seal need your city on it?▾
Wisconsin is one of the few states that puts a place name on the face of the seal — A-E 2.02(1) requires the credential holder's city alongside the name and credential number. (Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(1))
How small can a Wisconsin seal be?▾
The diameter has a floor as well as a ceiling: a seal smaller than 1-5/8 inches does not comply, even if it is legible. (Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(1))
When can you seal only the title sheet of a bound set?▾
A bound volume may be signed, sealed and dated on the title or index sheet alone only if that sheet "identifies clearly all other sheets comprising the bound volume" — otherwise every sheet must be sealed. (Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(4), (5))
Does a revised sheet need to be resealed?▾
Revisions carry their own sealing duty: any addition, deletion or revision affecting public health and safety or a state or local code requirement must be signed, sealed and dated by whoever made or controlled it. (Wis. Admin. Code § A-E 2.02(6))