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WAC 196-23-070 is "Signature", not the seal rule; the seal is WAC 196-23-010 and its usage is WAC 196-23-020. WSR 25-02-004, filed December 18, 2024 and effective January 18, 2025, amended WAC 196-23-010, but it was an expedited, non-substantive rule making that changed pronouns only. The illustrated designs are printed in the certified PDF of the section, not in the HTML version.
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Our digital Washington Land Surveyor stamp generator creates instant state-approved electronic land surveyor 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 Washington digital land surveyor stamps and seals.
Once you are licensed in Washington, 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 WAC 196-23-010 (Seals); WAC 196-23-020 (Seal/stamp usage), which is the provision the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors will measure the seal against.
Washington’s land surveyor seal rule is WAC 196-23-010 (Seals); WAC 196-23-020 (Seal/stamp usage), administered by the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. The seal must carry “REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR”, and no dimension is stated. The image must conform to the illustrated design and be of a size that assures full legibility of the required information.
A further 3 requirements, each tied to the subsection that imposes it, are itemised in the Washington requirements section on this page.
WAC 196-23-010 (Seals); WAC 196-23-020 (Seal/stamp usage) governs the Washington land surveyor’s seal but does not prescribe a diameter. Sizes quoted for Washington 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.
No. WAC 196-23-010 requires the impression or image to conform to the design illustrated in the rule, and the authorized land surveyor design is a rounded square framed by a rope border — the circular scalloped outline belongs to the professional engineer and structural engineer designs on the same page. The illustrations are printed in the certified PDF of the section and are dropped from the HTML version, so a surveyor reading the section online sees the four items that must be legible and no picture at all. A circular surveyor seal carrying the right four items still does not conform to the design the board authorized. (WAC 196-23-010)
Yes. RCW 18.43.070 gives the whole chapter exactly two legends — "registered professional engineer" or "registered professional land surveyor" — and WAC 196-23-010(2) repeats the surveyor's form as one of the four items that must be fully legible. The illustrated surveyor design sets it on two lines, "REGISTERED" above "PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR". "Professional Land Surveyor" standing alone is not one of the two legends, and no abbreviation such as P.L.S. or L.S. appears on any authorized design. (RCW 18.43.070; WAC 196-23-010(2))
Yes — Washington inverts the usual instinct. WAC 196-23-020(2) defines preliminary documents as those not final but released or distributed by the licensee, requires them to be clearly identified as "preliminary" or to carry wording differentiating them from a final document, and then provides that they "must be stamped, but need not be signed or dated by the licensee." So the stamp goes on a released preliminary; it is the signature and the date that are held back, not the seal. (WAC 196-23-020(2))
Yes, once it is final. WAC 196-23-020(1) defines "document" for the seal rule as "plans, specifications, plats, surveys, land descriptions as defined in WAC 332-130-020, reports, and as-built documents prepared by the licensee", and any final document must contain the seal, the signature and the date of signature. The borrowed definition is wide: WAC 332-130-020(5) makes a land description "[a] description of real property or of rights associated with real property", so a metes-and-bounds description written for a client or filed with a public official sits inside the sealing rule rather than beside it. (WAC 196-23-020(1); WAC 332-130-020(5))
A certificate in words the statute writes for you. RCW 58.09.080 prescribes the surveyor's certificate that shall appear on the record of survey map — reciting that the map correctly represents a survey made by the surveyor or under the surveyor's direction in conformance with the requirements of the Survey Recording Act, at the request of a named person — and it prints the signature block as "(Signed and Sealed)" above the certificate number. The recording office is held to a checklist as well: RCW 58.09.110 has the auditor accept for recording those records of survey and records of corner information that are in compliance with the recorder's checklist jointly developed by a committee of the survey advisory board and representatives of the county auditors, once that checklist is adopted in rule by the Department of Natural Resources. (RCW 58.09.080; RCW 58.09.110)
