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Your Oregon Architect seal from pedigitalstamps.com meets every requirement on this page — the required wording and the layout set out in OAR 806-010-0045 (Stamps and Signatures). Fill in your details and download it in seconds.
OAR 820-025-0005 was renumbered from OAR 820-010-0620 by BEELS 7-2015; the old number is still widely cited and no longer exists. The "at least 2 inches from point to point" wording came in with BEELS 3-2024, effective September 11, 2024, and replaced an older sentence that allowed a 1/4" tolerance against Exhibit 1. The board's Exhibit 1 handout on its website is dated April 26, 2017 and still reprints that superseded tolerance language.
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Our digital Oregon Architect stamp generator creates instant state-approved electronic architect stamps. Our platform provides full customization of your digital seal, including an option to add your signature. Professional Engineer (PE) stamps, Architect stamps, and Land Surveyor stamps are available for immediate download after customization. There is no waiting. Every electronic professional seal we generate is 100% compliant with state board requirements, ensuring your digital stamp meets all necessary standards.
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Frequently asked questions about Oregon digital architect stamps and seals.
Once you are licensed in Oregon, 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 OAR 806-010-0045 (Stamps and Signatures), which is the provision the Oregon State Board of Architect Examiners will measure the seal against.
Oregon’s architect stamp rule is OAR 806-010-0045 (Stamps and Signatures), administered by the Oregon State Board of Architect Examiners, a different body from the engineering board. The seal must carry “REGISTERED ARCHITECT, STATE OF OREGON”, and neither the rule nor ORS 671.020 prescribes a size for the architect's stamp.
A further 5 requirements, each tied to the subsection that imposes it, are itemised in the Oregon requirements section on this page.
OAR 806-010-0045 (Stamps and Signatures) governs the Oregon architect’s seal but does not prescribe a diameter. Sizes quoted for Oregon 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.
It does not. The rule requires the architect's name and the city and state of the principal office, and then says the stamp "may include the architect's registration number issued by the Board"; the Board's own stamp guidance repeats that the number may be included "although it is not required". Oregon is close to alone in this — almost every other stamp in the country is built around the license number — and an architect who assumes the number is mandatory has assumed a requirement the rule declined to impose. (OAR 806-010-0045(1); OSBAE Professional Stamp guidance)
The city of the architect's principal office. The rule reads "the city and state in which the architect's principal office is located" — not the city where the work is being done, not a branch office, and not the vague "city of practice" that gets quoted for Oregon. Note also that this is an architects-only requirement: the engineer's and land surveyor's seal, administered by a different board, carries no place of business at all. (OAR 806-010-0045(1))
From the Board's guidance, not from the rule. OAR 806-010-0045 prescribes only the name and the city and state of the principal office, with the registration number optional, and neither ORS 671.020 nor ORS 671.025 supplies any wording — ORS 671.020(3) says only that the architect shall obtain a stamp conforming to a design the board specifies by rule. The legend "REGISTERED ARCHITECT, STATE OF OREGON" appears on the Board's Professional Stamp page, which is what the Board tells architects to put on the stamp. Both are Board sources and the guidance is the stricter one, so a compliant stamp follows it — but anyone who goes looking for that phrase in the Administrative Rules will not find it. (OAR 806-010-0045(1); ORS 671.020(3); OSBAE Professional Stamp guidance)
No size is prescribed anywhere — not in OAR 806-010-0045, not in ORS 671.020 or 671.025 — and the Board's stamp guidance gives no dimension either. The famous Oregon measurement, "at least 2 inches from point to point", is the engineering and land surveying board's rule for its own non-circular seals and has nothing to do with architects. There is no architect equivalent, so neither a floor nor a ceiling exists to violate. (OAR 806-010-0045; cf. OAR 820-025-0005(2))
The stamp rule never asks for a date. What it prescribes is where the signature goes: signatures must be permanently affixed to the documents being certified, applied by the identified registrant, placed across the stamp, unique to the registrant and capable of independent verification — and no subsection adds a date of signing. The date Oregon does require comes from the statute and is a different date: technical submissions must bear identification including the date the documents were issued, along with the project name and location and the owner's and preparer's details. That belongs in the identification block, not on or beside the stamp. (OAR 806-010-0045(6); ORS 671.025(2))
