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Wyoming Land Surveyor seal requirements: size, wording, and the rule that sets them
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Land surveyors in Wyoming seal under Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1 (Board rules ch. 5, Practice of Professional Engineering and Professional Land Surveying, Seals); Wyo. Stat. § 33-29-601, administered by the Wyoming Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors. The rule allows “Professional Land Surveyor” or “Professional Engineer & Land Surveyor”. Two concentric circles, the outer circle 1¾ inches in diameter and the inner circle 1¼ inches.
Chapter 5 of the engineering board's rules was last amended 3 September 2021, and its Section 2, headed "Sizes", governs sheet dimensions rather than seal diameter — the seal is dimensioned in Section 1(a). Every version of that chapter in force between 1 July 2013 and 24 March 2020 prescribed no dimensions at all; the 24 March 2020 amendment restored the 1¾-inch and 1¼-inch figures the rules had carried before the 2013 rewrite. The architects board renumbered Chapter 9 on 17 December 2025: the seal design is now Section 2, where earlier guidance cites Section 1, and Section 1 is now a bare authority provision. Seals authorized before 1 July 2013 may still be used, and the architects board still accepts its 2011 and 2001 seal designs for anyone licensed before 17 December 2025 and its 1992 design for anyone licensed before 27 April 2001. Landscape architects are licensed by the architects board and seal under the same Chapter 9, reading "LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT-STATE OF WYOMING" in place of the architect legend.
Wyoming Land Surveyor seal
- Legend (any one)
- “Professional Land Surveyor” · “Professional Engineer & Land Surveyor”
- Diameter
- Two concentric circles, the outer circle 1¾ inches in diameter and the inner circle 1¼ inches.
- Expiration date
- Surveyors use the same seal as engineers; the word "Date" inside the inner circle is the date-of-signing field, not a license expiration date.(Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(a), (c))
- Signature date
- The signature and date of signing must be superimposed over the seal, and the statute requires the seal, signature and date on all final maps, land surveys, plats, drawings and plans filed or recorded.(Wyo. Stat. § 33-29-601(b), (c); Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(c))
- City on seal
- Same design as the engineer's seal: legend, "Wyoming", name, license number and "Date".(Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(a))
- Land surveyors use the same seal as engineers, with "Professional Land Surveyor" in the upper portion of the annular space, or "Professional Engineer & Land Surveyor" for a licensee who holds both licenses, and the inscription "Wyoming" at the bottom.(Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(a))
- The inner circle contains the licensee's name, the license number and the word "Date", and the seal must be of the design shown in the rule.(Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(a))
- Maps, plats, plans, designs and other engineering and surveying documents required to be filed or recorded in the state engineer's office, the office of state lands and investments, county clerks' offices, city or town offices or any other office of public record in Wyoming shall be made by or under the responsible charge of a professional engineer or professional land surveyor and be signed by and bear that licensee's seal.(Wyo. Stat. § 33-29-801(a)(i))
- Beyond the seal, surveyors must obtain and use metallic identifying markers showing their Wyoming license number prefixed by the letters LS, PLS, or PE & LS, as appropriate.(Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 4(a))
- The seal must be legible in its entirety, with the surveyor's signature and the date of signing superimposed over it; on a multi-sheet document the title page or first page carries the seal, signature and date.(Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(c))
Wyoming land surveyor seal questions
Which legend goes on a Wyoming land surveyor's seal?▾
One of three phrases, and it follows the license held. Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(a) permits "Professional Engineer", "Professional Land Surveyor" and "Professional Engineer & Land Surveyor" and nothing else, so the phrase on the seal follows the credential held rather than being a free choice among the three. The same license-follows-the-credential logic runs through the chapter: § 4(a) has professional land surveyors, and professional engineers and land surveyors engaged in the practice of land surveying, use metallic identifying markers showing the Wyoming license number prefixed by LS, PLS or PE & LS as appropriate. Those prefixes are the marker's wording, not the seal's — no abbreviation is one of the three phrases § 1(a) allows on the seal. (Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 4(a); § 1(a))
Where is the Wyoming land surveyor seal size prescribed?▾
In Section 1(a) of Chapter 5 — not in the section headed "Sizes". Section 2 of the same chapter reads, in full, that "[t]he dimensions of all hardcopy maps, plats, plans, and designs for filing or recording shall be as specified by the private or governmental entity requiring the documents": that is sheet size, and the entity requiring the document sets it. The seal's geometry is back in Section 1(a), which fixes two concentric circles with the outer at 1¾ inches and the inner at 1¼ inches. A citation to Chapter 5, Section 2 for seal diameter is a citation to the sheet-size rule. (Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 §§ 1(a), 2)
Is an old Wyoming land surveyor seal still valid?▾
If it was authorized before 1 July 2013, yes: Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(b) provides that seals authorized prior to July 1, 2013 may continue to be used, and sets no date by which such a seal must be replaced. The grandfather clause matters here because the chapter's dimensions came and went. Every version in force from 1 July 2013 until the amendment effective 24 March 2020 described the seal only as two concentric circles and gave no dimensions at all; the 1¾-inch and 1¼-inch figures now in Section 1(a) were restored by that 2020 amendment, and they are what a seal procured today is measured against. (Wyo. Code R. 037.0001.5 § 1(a), (b))
Which Wyoming filings need a land surveyor's seal?▾
Nearly every public filing, with one carve-out written into the same sentence. Wyo. Stat. § 33-29-801(a) reaches all maps, plats, plans, designs and all other engineering and surveying documents required to be filed or recorded in the state engineer's office, the office of state lands and investments, all county clerks' offices, all city or town offices, "or any other office of public record in the state of Wyoming", and § 33-29-801(a)(i) requires each to be made by or under the responsible charge of a professional engineer or professional land surveyor and to be signed by and bear that licensee's seal. The exception is filings with the oil and gas commission made pursuant to the rules of that commission, which the subsection places outside the requirement. (Wyo. Stat. § 33-29-801(a), (a)(i))
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