Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4703:1 - State Board of Landscape Architect Examiners › Chapter 4703:1-3 - Seals and Firm Names › Section 4703:1-3-01 - Seal requirements

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Each landscape architect shall be
			 authorized to use a seal as hereinafter directed in paragraphs (B) and (C) of
			 this rule on all documents prepared by the landscape architect or under the
			 landscape architect's direct supervision for use in the state of Ohio, for the
			 purpose of properly imprinting the drawings, specifications, and other contract
			 documents as required by section
			 4703.32 of the Revised Code. The
			 seal shall be circular in shape and two inches in diameter. Concentric with the
			 outside of the seal there shall be a circle one and three eighths inches in
			 diameter. In the annular space between the circle and the outside of the seal
			 shall be the words "state of Ohio" at the top and "landscape architect" at the
			 bottom. The name of the landscape architect and the landscape architect's
			 registration number shall be placed horizontally within the inner circle. The
			 seal shall be either an individual embossing seal, rubber stamp seal,
			 electronically generated seal or other reproducible facsimile.
(B) The application of the seal over an ink
			 or electronic signature to the first sheet of bound sets of drawings (with
			 index of drawings included), title page of specifications and to other drawings
			 and contract documents shall constitute the landscape architect stamp as
			 referred to in division (D) of section
			 4703.32 of the Revised Code.
The term signature as used herein shall mean a handwritten
				identification containing the name of the person who applied it; or for
				electronic or digital documents shall mean an electronic authentication process
				attached to or logically associated with the document. The digital signature
				must be unique to, and under the sole control of the person using it; it must
				also be capable of verification and linked to a document in such a manner that
				the digital signature is invalidated if any data on the document is altered.
(C) An electronic seal and
			 signature are permitted to be used in lieu of an original seal and signature
			 when the following criteria, and all other requirements of this rule are met:
(1) It is a unique identification of the
			 professional;
(2) It is
			 verifiable;
(3) It is under the
			 professional's direct and sole control;
(4) It is linked to a document in such a
			 manner that changes are readily determined and visually displayed if any data
			 contained in the document file was changed subsequent to the electronic seal
			 and signature having been affixed to the document, and
(5) Changes to the document after affixing
			 the electronic seal and signature shall cause the electronic seal and signature
			 to be removed or altered in such a way as to invalidate the electronic seal and
			 signature.
(6) In addition, once
			 the electronic seal and signature is applied to the document , the document
			 shall be available in a view only format if the document is to be
			 electronically transmitted;
(7)
			 The graphic image of the electronic seal and signature shall be readily
			 available and produced in a manner acceptable to the board. It shall contain
			 the same words as and shall have substantially the same graphic appearance and
			 size as required above when the image of the electronically transmitted
			 document is viewed at the same size as the document in its original form.