Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS › Title 110 - BOARD OF ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS › Chapter 6 - THE LICENSEE SEAL › Section 110-6-1 - Use of the Seal

Current through June 17, 2024
6.1.1 Each person
				licensed as an architect or professional engineer must have a seal that bears
				the licensee's name, their license number, the words "State of Nebraska," and
				whether the individual is licensed to practice as a professional engineer, with
				discipline specified, or an architect.
6.1.2 The purpose of the seal is to assist in
				identification of the design professional responsible for work performed under
				the requirements of the E&A Act.
6.1.3 The seal used by an architect or
				professional engineer shall be legible, whether an embossing, computer
				generated, or other type of seal. In the absence of legibility, the seal is
				invalid.
6.1.4 The responsible
				architect or professional engineer shall identify all work that they have
				prepared, as well as all work that has been prepared under their direct
				supervision, by applying their seal to each sheet of original
				drawings.
6.1.5 All specifications,
				reports, studies, and other documents prepared as architectural or professional
				engineering services shall be sealed on the title page and/or the first page,
				as well as the last page, of the document by the individual architect or
				professional engineer responsible for the work. Two or more architects or
				professional engineers may affix their signatures and seals to a sheet provided
				it is designated by a note under the seal the specific subject matter for which
				each is responsible.
6.1.6 No seal
				shall be valid unless signed across the face of the seal with the architect's
				or professional engineer's name and the date on which the material was
				signed.
6.1.7 Documents clearly
				marked as "Draft" prepared for preliminary submission and review do not require
				the professional's seal, signature, and date, including documents prepared for
				a client or governmental agency, unless otherwise required by that
				entity.
6.1.8 Architects and
				professional engineers are responsible for providing adequate security over
				their seal and signature wherever it appears, regardless of whether the seal
				and signature is produced electronically or by other means.
6.1.9 Record and as-built drawings.
6.1.9.1 Architects and professional engineers
				are not obligated to seal record or as-built drawings.
6.1.9.2 If an architect or professional
				engineer elects to seal record or as-built drawings, the seal may be applied
				only to the work over which the architect or professional engineer had direct
				supervision or which the architect or professional engineer personally observed
				during construction.
6.1.9.3
				Architects and professional engineers shall not seal drawings that represent
				changes not actually observed during construction.
6.1.9.4 Architects and professional engineers
				may include notations on record or as-built drawings that indicate the work
				that they can actually confirm based on information obtained through
				observation, interview, samples, and other reliable sources, such as the
				following:
These record drawings are a compilation of a copy of
				  the sealed [engineering/architectural] drawings for this project, as modified
				  by addenda, change orders, and information furnished by the contractor or
				  others on the project. The information shown on the record drawings that was
				  provided by the contractor or others not associated with the design
				  [engineer/architect] cannot be verified for accuracy or completeness. The
				  original sealed drawings are on file at the offices of
				  [...].
6.1.9.5
				Alternatively, architects and professional engineers may seal and sign a cover
				letter stating what they have determined to be as-built through their own
				research and attach the letter to the drawings or plans.
6.1.9.6 Documentation of the work that was
				actually constructed is not the practice of architecture or engineering under
				the E&A Act.
6.1.9.7 If
				as-built drawings are produced from sealed design drawings, the seal of the
				licensee(s) that prepared the drawings will either a) be removed if practical,
				or b) be accompanied by a note next to or over the seal indicating that the
				seal relates only to the design and not the as-builts.