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Your New Jersey Architect seal from pedigitalstamps.com meets every requirement on this page — the required wording and the layout set out in N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7 (Issuance of certificates and seal presses); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3 (Signing and sealing construction documents); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5 (Digital signatures and seals); N.J.S.A. 45:3-3. Fill in your details and download it in seconds.
N.J.A.C. 13:40-8.1(a) states no diameter itself; it requires that the design of the seal "shall be authorized by the Board." The Board supplies that design in a document it still hosts, "Guidelines on Seals and Title Blocks," which gives the authorized design as "ROUND: 1½" DIAMETER," "METAL-TYPE, EMBOSSING," and prints an illustration captioned "1 1/2 INCHES" showing STATE OF NEW JERSEY in the outer ring. That sheet is undated, is no longer linked from the Board's own applications or regulations pages, cites the title block rules by their pre-2006 numbers (13:40-1.1 through 1.3, recodified in 2006 as 13:40-8.2 and 8.3), and its "metal-type, embossing" specification predates the November 16, 2015 amendment that first allowed a digital seal. It is nonetheless the only published statement of the design the Board authorizes, so the diameter here comes from it and the caveat comes with it. New Jersey publishes no free official text of the Administrative Code: the Office of Administrative Law directs the public to LexisNexis, and both boards' regulations pages link instead to "the Justia unofficial code (that may not be current)," so the rule text here is taken from the boards' own adopted rules as published in the New Jersey Register. Both chapters are in force: N.J.A.C. 13:40 was readopted effective February 24, 2025 (57 N.J.R. 716(a)), and N.J.A.C. 13:27 was readopted effective October 21, 2024 with a new expiration date of October 21, 2031 (56 N.J.R. 2245(a)). The engineers' and surveyors' digital seal rule was loosened effective January 6, 2020 (52 N.J.R. 46(a)): former N.J.A.C. 13:40-8.1A(a)1iv was deleted, taking with it the requirement that a digitally sealed document be available in read-only format when transmitted, and the tamper condition became new (a)2, which asks only that modification after sealing be evident. The architects' equivalent, N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5, was adopted effective May 1, 2017 (49 N.J.R. 1093(a)) and still carries both of the older conditions; the Board of Architects' own compilation of Chapter 27 is stamped "Last Revision Date: 8/1/2011" and still prints 13:27-6.5 as "(RESERVED)."
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Frequently asked questions about New Jersey digital architect stamps and seals.
Once you are licensed in New Jersey, you can generate your seal here and download it immediately. Fill in the form and position your signature if you want one. The layout follows N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7 (Issuance of certificates and seal presses); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3 (Signing and sealing construction documents); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5 (Digital signatures and seals); N.J.S.A. 45:3-3, which is the provision the New Jersey State Board of Architects will measure the seal against.
New Jersey’s architect stamp rule is N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7 (Issuance of certificates and seal presses); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3 (Signing and sealing construction documents); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5 (Digital signatures and seals); N.J.S.A. 45:3-3, administered by the New Jersey State Board of Architects, a different body from the engineering board. The seal must carry “State of New Jersey Registered Architect”, and chapter 27 prescribes no diameter, no minimum and no maximum. The Board issues the seal press itself, so the design is settled by the Board rather than described in the rule, and N.J.S.A. 45:3-3 leaves to the Board the rules for affixing to and endorsing on architects' plans the seal, name, license number and title of the architect.
A further 8 requirements, each tied to the subsection that imposes it, are itemised in the New Jersey requirements section on this page.
N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7 (Issuance of certificates and seal presses); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3 (Signing and sealing construction documents); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5 (Digital signatures and seals); N.J.S.A. 45:3-3 governs the New Jersey architect’s seal but does not prescribe a diameter. Sizes quoted for New Jersey elsewhere generally come from stamp suppliers’ catalogues rather than from the rule. What the rule does require is that your name and license number stay clearly legible.
Yes. N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3(c) lets an architect seal construction documents with a digital signature and seal meeting N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5. A press is not something an architect can buy from a supplier: the Board issues it with the license, it remains the property of the State of New Jersey, and presses may only be obtained or exchanged through the Board. (N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3(c); N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7(a) and (b))
The legend is the whole phrase "State of New Jersey Registered Architect," not "Registered Architect" with the state added as a separate element. N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7(a) gives it as a single legend to sit alongside the architect's name and license number. Note the word too: Chapter 27 issues a certificate of licensure and calls the holder a licensee throughout, yet the seal reads "Registered," where the other board's chapter gives engineers and land surveyors legends beginning "Licensed." (N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7(a); cf. N.J.A.C. 13:40-8.1(a))
None is prescribed. Chapter 27 states no diameter, no minimum and no maximum, and fixes only what the seal carries: the architect's name, the license number and the legend "State of New Jersey Registered Architect." N.J.S.A. 45:3-3 leaves to the Board the rules for affixing the seal, name, license number and title to architects' plans, and the Board settles the design by issuing the seal itself rather than by describing it in the rule — so the design to reproduce is the Board's own, and there is no dimension to read out of the regulation. The 1½-inch figure quoted for New Jersey comes from the Guidelines on Seals and Title Blocks published by the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors — a different board, describing a different seal. (N.J.A.C. 13:27-4.7(a); N.J.S.A. 45:3-3; cf. State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, Guidelines on Seals and Title Blocks)
No, and the architects' rule is the stricter of the two. N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5(a)1 still requires that the digital signature and seal be linked to the document so that it is invalidated if any data in the document is changed, and that once applied the document be available in read-only format if it is to be digitally transmitted. The engineers' and surveyors' rule lost both of those conditions effective January 6, 2020, when N.J.A.C. 13:40-8.1A was amended to ask only that modification after sealing be evident. Digital-sealing guidance written for New Jersey engineers therefore understates what an architect must do. (N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.5(a)1; cf. N.J.A.C. 13:40-8.1A(a)2)
Under either route the rule offers, the seal lands on an opaque print rather than on the reproducible original. N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3(a) requires construction documents and specification title pages to be dated, signed and sealed in one of two ways: the architect signs and dates the original documents, including tracings, reproducible drawings or those generated electronically, and then affixes the seal to opaque prints or reproductions of the originals; or, in lieu of signing and dating the originals, the architect signs, dates and seals the opaque copies. (N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.3(a))
Yes, and it has to stand on its own. N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.1(a) and (c) put a title block on all construction documents and site plans, and on documents submitted for public approval or permit application, distinct and separate from any other title block, box, plaque or similar device on the drawings. It carries the architect's name, license number, a space for the signature of the architect in responsible charge, and the date when signed, so the seal by itself does not satisfy it. Paragraph (f) adds the trap: no non-licensed person's name may appear within the title block, other than the name of the owner or lessee of the building. (N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.1(a), (c) and (f); N.J.A.C. 13:27-6.2(a)5)
