Ohio · Land Surveyor seal requirements
Ohio Land Surveyor seal requirements: size, wording, and the rule that sets them
As of
Land surveyors in Ohio seal under OAC 4733-23-01, administered by the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors. The seal reads “Registered Professional Surveyor”. The rule does not prescribe a diameter.
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.
Ohio Land Surveyor seal
- Seal rule
- OAC 4733-23-01
- Legend
- “Registered Professional Surveyor”
- Diameter
- The rule does not prescribe a diameter.
- Expiration date
- Same provision as the engineer's, with the legend "Registered Professional Surveyor". No expiration date is called for.(ORC 4733.14; OAC 4733-23-01)
- Signature date
- Work product must be stamped with the seal and signed and dated, or carry a computer-generated seal with an electronic signature and date.(ORC 4733.14; OAC 4733-23-01)
- City on seal
- The seal bears the registrant's name and the legend only.(ORC 4733.14; OAC 4733-23-01)
- The surveyor's legend is "Registered Professional Surveyor" — Ohio does not use "Land Surveyor" on the seal.(OAC 4733-23-01)
Ohio land surveyor seal questions
Does an Ohio surveyor's seal read "Land Surveyor"?▾
Surveyors seal as "Registered Professional Surveyor". Ohio does not put "Land Surveyor" on the seal. (OAC 4733-23-01)
Does an Ohio surveyor's seal carry the registration number?▾
The seal rule does not call for one. It requires a seal of the design authorized by the Board bearing the registrant's name together with the legend "Registered Professional Surveyor", and names nothing else — no number, no state, no date. The registration number is mandatory somewhere else: the minimum standards for boundary surveys require the plat to show the surveyor's printed name and Ohio registration number, along with the signature and seal. A surveyor who treats the seal as carrying the number will leave the plat short of an element the standards require. (OAC 4733-23-01(A); OAC 4733-37-05)
Must an Ohio surveyor's seal reproduce on copies of a plat?▾
Yes, and that is a real constraint on how the seal is applied. The minimum standards require the plat of survey to show the surveyor's printed name and Ohio registration number, signature and seal "in a form which may clearly reproduce on any copies which may be made of the original drawing". An embossed impression with no ink behind it satisfies the seal rule but disappears from a photocopy or a scan, which is exactly what the plat standard forbids. (OAC 4733-37-05)
Which dates go on an Ohio surveyor's plat of survey?▾
Two different ones. The minimum standards list "the date of the survey" as an element of the plat itself, and the seal rule separately requires the work product to be stamped with the seal and signed and dated, or to bear a computer-generated seal with an electronic signature and date. The date written beside the signature records when the surveyor sealed the drawing and is not a substitute for the date of the survey, which is the fieldwork date the plat has to state in its own right. (OAC 4733-37-05; OAC 4733-23-01; ORC 4733.14)
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