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Ohio's rule prescribes the legend but not a diameter. Sizes quoted around the web for Ohio come from stamp vendors' catalogues, not from the Administrative Code.
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Frequently asked questions about Ohio digital architect stamps and seals.
Once you are licensed in Ohio, 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 OAC 4703-3-01 (Seal requirements), which is the provision the Ohio Architects Board will measure the seal against.
Ohio’s architect stamp rule is OAC 4703-3-01 (Seal requirements), administered by the Ohio Architects Board, a different body from the engineering board. The seal must carry “Registered Architect”, and circular and two inches in diameter, with a concentric inner circle of one and three-eighths inches.
A further 4 requirements, each tied to the subsection that imposes it, are itemised in the Ohio requirements section on this page.
Circular and two inches in diameter, with a concentric inner circle of one and three-eighths inches. This is set by OAC 4703-3-01.
Exactly two inches, with a second circle inside it. The rule makes the seal circular and two inches in diameter, and concentric with the outside of the seal there must be a circle one and three-eighths inches in diameter. The widely repeated line that Ohio prescribes no seal size is true of engineers and surveyors, whose rule is written by a different board and gives no dimension at all; it is not true of architects, who have both circles fixed for them and no tolerance in either. (OAC 4703-3-01(A); cf. OAC 4733-23-01)
It goes next to the seal, not on it. Paragraph (A) prescribes the face exhaustively — "state of Ohio" at the top of the annular space, "registered architect" at the bottom, and the architect's name and registration number placed horizontally within the inner circle — with no room for an expiry. Paragraph (B) then requires the seal to be applied above the architect's printed name, license number and expiration date of the license, together with an ink or electronic signature, on the title or first sheet of bound sets of drawings, the title page of bound specifications, and other documents filed with building permit agencies. Ohio is a second Illinois on this point. (OAC 4703-3-01(A) and (B))
The architect's rule does not ask for a date of signing. Paragraph (B) itemizes what accompanies the seal — the printed name, the license number, the expiration date of the license, and an ink or electronic signature — and a date of signing is not among them; ORC 4703.12 requires only that the documents be imprinted with the seal. Ohio engineers and surveyors, under a different board, must have their work product signed and dated. So the date an architect must show beside the seal is the license expiration date, not the day the drawing was signed. (OAC 4703-3-01(B); ORC 4703.12; cf. ORC 4733.14)
No. The annular space carries "state of Ohio" at the top and "registered architect" at the bottom, and the inner circle carries the architect's name and registration number. The rule uses the licensing vocabulary a few lines later — paragraph (B) speaks of the "license number" and the "expiration date of the architect's license" — so both words appear in the same rule and only one of them belongs on the seal face. (OAC 4703-3-01(A) and (B))
