Effective - 28 Aug 2014, 2 histories
327.411. Personal seal, how used, effect of. — 1. Each architect and each professional engineer and each professional land surveyor and each professional landscape architect shall have a personal seal in a form prescribed by the board, and he or she shall affix the seal to all final technical submissions. Technical submissions shall include, but are not limited to, drawings, specifications, plats, surveys, exhibits, reports, and certifications of construction prepared by the licensee, or under such licensee's immediate personal supervision. Such licensee shall either prepare or personally supervise the preparation of all documents sealed by the licensee, and such licensee shall be held personally responsible for the contents of all such documents sealed by such licensee, whether prepared or drafted by another licensee or not.
2. The personal seal of an architect or professional engineer or professional land surveyor or professional landscape architect shall be the legal equivalent of the licensee's signature whenever and wherever used, and the owner of the seal shall be responsible for the architectural, engineering, land surveying, or landscape architectural documents, as the case may be, when the licensee places his or her personal seal on such technical submissions to be used in connection with, any architectural or engineering project, survey, or landscape architectural project. Licensees shall undertake to perform architectural, professional engineering, professional land surveying and professional landscape architectural services only when they are qualified by education, training, and experience in the specific technical areas involved.
3. Notwithstanding any provision of this section, any architect, professional engineer, professional land surveyor, or professional landscape architect may, but is not required to, attach a statement over his or her signature, authenticated by his or her personal seal, specifying the particular technical submissions, or portions thereof, intended to be authenticated by the seal, and disclaiming any responsibility for all other technical submissions relating to or intended to be used for any part or parts of the architectural or engineering project or survey or landscape architectural project.
4. Nothing in this section, or any rule or regulation of the board shall require any professional to seal preliminary or incomplete documents.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 117, A.L. 1999 H.B. 343, A.L. 2003 S.B. 478, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al., A.L. 2014 S.B. 809)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXII - Occupations and Professions
Chapter 327 - Architects, Engineers, Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects
Section 327.011 - Definitions.
Section 327.041 - Board, powers and duties — rules, generally, this chapter, procedure.
Section 327.051 - Meetings, when — personnel, employment — compensation of board members.
Section 327.061 - Office, where.
Section 327.075 - Injunction authorized, when.
Section 327.076 - Licensure required, penalty for violation — complaint procedure.
Section 327.091 - Practice of architecture defined.
Section 327.101 - Unauthorized practice prohibited — licensure required — exceptions, when.
Section 327.106 - Reciprocity for architects licensed in Canada, requirements.
Section 327.131 - Applicant for license as architect, qualifications.
Section 327.141 - Application, form, fee.
Section 327.151 - Examination for license, content — passing grade, how determined.
Section 327.161 - Reexamination, when.
Section 327.171 - Professional license, renewal.
Section 327.181 - Practice as professional engineer defined — use of titles, restrictions.
Section 327.191 - Unauthorized practice prohibited — licensure required — exceptions, when.
Section 327.221 - Applicant for license as professional engineer, qualifications.
Section 327.231 - Application, form, fee.
Section 327.241 - Examination for licensure, requirements.
Section 327.251 - Reexamination, when.
Section 327.261 - Professional license, renewal.
Section 327.271 - Inactive license, requirements — return to active.
Section 327.272 - Practice as professional land surveyor defined.
Section 327.281 - Unauthorized practice prohibited.
Section 327.314 - Professional land surveyor, applicant for license, qualifications.
Section 327.321 - Application — form — fee.
Section 327.341 - Reexamination, when.
Section 327.371 - Surveyor exempt from trespass but liable for damages.
Section 327.392 - Professional engineering license issued, when.
Section 327.411 - Personal seal, how used, effect of.
Section 327.431 - Fees to be set by board, how.
Section 327.441 - Denial, revocation, or suspension of license or certificate, grounds for.
Section 327.442 - Disciplinary hearing for censure of license to be held, when.
Section 327.465 - Certificate of registration or authority not required, when — definitions.
Section 327.471 - Attorney general to assist board with legal assistance.
Section 327.481 - Inconsistent laws repealed.
Section 327.600 - Definitions.
Section 327.603 - License required to use title of professional landscape architect.
Section 327.612 - Applicants for licensure as professional landscape architect — qualifications.
Section 327.619 - Examination, failure to pass — reexamination, when.
Section 327.622 - Inactive license status permitted, when.
Section 327.629 - Licensure as professional landscape architect required to practice, exceptions.