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Your South Dakota Land Surveyor seal from pedigitalstamps.com meets every requirement on this page — the required wording, the layout and the diameter set out in SDCL § 36-18A-44 (Seal of licensees—Contents—Signature); ARSD 20:38:37:01 (Seals). Fill in your details and download it in seconds.
The seal contents and dimensions live in SDCL § 36-18A-44. ARSD 20:38:37:01, the administrative rule usually cited for South Dakota seals, governs use of the seal and states neither contents nor size. The board's Blue Book on dlr.sd.gov is still the 2020 edition, though its § 36-18A-44 text matches the current statute.
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Frequently asked questions about South Dakota digital land surveyor stamps and seals.
Once you are licensed in South 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 SDCL § 36-18A-44 (Seal of licensees—Contents—Signature); ARSD 20:38:37:01 (Seals), which is the provision the South Dakota Board of Technical Professions will measure the seal against.
South Dakota’s land surveyor seal rule is SDCL § 36-18A-44 (Seal of licensees—Contents—Signature); ARSD 20:38:37:01 (Seals), administered by the South Dakota Board of Technical Professions. The seal must carry any one of “Land Surveyor”, “Licensed Land Surveyor”, “Registered Land Surveyor”, and an outer circle with a diameter measuring at least one inch and no greater than two inches, and an inner circle with a diameter measuring five-eighths of the diameter of the outer circle.
A further 2 requirements, each tied to the subsection that imposes it, are itemised in the South Dakota requirements section on this page.
An outer circle with a diameter measuring at least one inch and no greater than two inches, and an inner circle with a diameter measuring five-eighths of the diameter of the outer circle. This is set by SDCL § 36-18A-44.
The statutory title is "Land Surveyor". Section 36-18A-44 names the four titles as Professional Engineer, Architect, Land Surveyor and Landscape Architect — the word "Professional" belongs to the engineer's title and is not part of the surveyor's. The only prefixes the statute offers are Licensed and Registered, so "Licensed Land Surveyor" and "Registered Land Surveyor" are available forms while "Professional Land Surveyor" is not one of the forms the statute gives. (SDCL § 36-18A-44)
Three things on the face of it, and the county checks. SDCL § 36-18A-71 provides that no register of deeds of any county may file or record any map, plat, survey, or other technical submissions within the definition of land surveying which does not have impressed thereon and affixed thereto the personal signature, seal, and date of a land surveyor by whom or under whose responsible charge and direct personal supervision it was prepared. The prohibition runs against the recorder, not merely against the surveyor, so a plat missing any one of the signature, the seal or the date is one the office may not accept — and § 36-18A-44 already requires the signature and the date to sit adjacent to or across the seal. (SDCL § 36-18A-71; § 36-18A-44)
Only if the surveying title is on the seal. Section 36-18A-44 requires the appropriate title or combination of titles, and § 36-18A-36 lets the board license one person for two or more of professional engineer, architect, land surveyor and landscape architect — so a dual licensee may carry "Professional Engineer" and "Land Surveyor" together on one device. What a seal bearing only the engineer's title cannot do is satisfy § 36-18A-71, which lets a register of deeds record a map, plat or survey only on the signature, seal and date of the land surveyor responsible for it. (SDCL § 36-18A-44; § 36-18A-36; § 36-18A-71)
