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Two boards, two rules and two seals that look nothing alike. Engineers and land surveyors are registered by the North Dakota State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors under N.D. Admin. Code ch. 28-02.1-08; architects and landscape architects are licensed by the North Dakota State Board of Architecture and Landscape Architecture under ch. 8-06-01. Landscape architects use the same stamp as architects with the legend "LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT - STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA". Section 8-06-01-02(1) also preserves an older, non-circular stamp — a North Dakota outline carrying a certification statement with date and license number lines — for persons licensed before the current rules took effect, but the published rule leaves the date of those earlier rules blank. The statute and the rule state the engineering legend differently: N.D.C.C. § 43-19.1-21 gives it in lower case as "registered professional engineer" or "registered professional land surveyor" and offers no combined form, while the board's seal design rule capitalizes the phrases and adds "Registered Professional Engineer & Land Surveyor" for dual registrants. The rule governs the design of the seal, so its capitalization and its combined form are what a seal should follow. Section 28-02.1-08-02 was last amended effective October 1, 2021 and § 28-02.1-08-03 effective January 1, 2024; the architect provisions have been effective since January 1, 2014.
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Once you are licensed in North Dakota, 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.D. Admin. Code § 28-02.1-08-02 (Seals); § 28-02.1-08-03 (Use of seals); N.D.C.C. § 43-19.1-21, which is the provision the North Dakota State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors will measure the seal against.
North Dakota’s land surveyor seal rule is N.D. Admin. Code § 28-02.1-08-02 (Seals); § 28-02.1-08-03 (Use of seals); N.D.C.C. § 43-19.1-21, administered by the North Dakota State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. The seal must carry any one of “Registered Professional Land Surveyor”, “Registered Professional Engineer & Land Surveyor”, and two concentric circles, the outer circle one and three-fourth inches [44.45 millimeters] in diameter and the inner circle one and one-fourth inches [31.75 millimeters]. The specification governs seals prepared after July 1, 2005.
A further 7 requirements, each tied to the subsection that imposes it, are itemised in the North Dakota requirements section on this page.
Two concentric circles, the outer circle one and three-fourth inches [44.45 millimeters] in diameter and the inner circle one and one-fourth inches [31.75 millimeters]. The specification governs seals prepared after July 1, 2005. This is set by N.D. Admin. Code § 28-02.1-08-02(1).
Surveyors who bought a seal reading "Registered Land Surveyor" before January 1, 2011 are not required to replace it, but that shorter legend is not available for a seal made now — the current phrase is "Registered Professional Land Surveyor". (N.D. Admin. Code § 28-02.1-08-02(1))
Because the rule puts it there. The inner circle must contain three things — the registrant's name, the registration number, and the word "Date" — so the seal carries its own dating field, which the surveyor completes when signing. The rule separately provides that the signature and seal must also be dated, and original copies of all plats, maps, drawings, plan sheets, specifications, studies and reports must receive a seal, date and signature. The word is not a license expiration date and a seal cut without it does not match the prescribed design. (N.D. Admin. Code § 28-02.1-08-02(1) and (3); § 28-02.1-08-03(1))
One seal, reading "Registered Professional Engineer & Land Surveyor" with an ampersand. The rule directs a registrant to put whichever of its three phrases applies in the upper portion between the two circles, and the combined phrase is the one that applies to a dual registrant. The combined form exists only in the board's design rule: N.D.C.C. § 43-19.1-21 offers the legend as "registered professional engineer" or "registered professional land surveyor" and gives no combined wording at all, which is why the ampersand version is often assumed to be improvised. (N.D. Admin. Code § 28-02.1-08-02(1); N.D.C.C. § 43-19.1-21)
No — and the bar falls on the recorder, not on the surveyor. It is unlawful for the recorder of any county or any proper public authority to file or record any map, plat, survey or other document within the definition of land surveying which does not have impressed thereon and affixed thereto the personal signature and seal of a registered professional land surveyor by whom the document was prepared. The statute ties the seal to the surveyor who prepared the document, so a colleague's seal on the sheet does not cure it. (N.D.C.C. § 43-19.1-30)
Three specific things, and the word "preliminary" alone is not enough. Preliminary descriptions and documents used for negotiations for real property, interests in real property, rights of way and easements are not subject to the survey requirements of chapter 28-02.1-13, but only if each bears a statement that the document is preliminary, that it does not represent a complete boundary survey, and that it is not intended for construction, recording or implementation. The statement must appear prominently on the face of the document. (N.D. Admin. Code § 28-02.1-13-01)
