Ala. Admin. Code r. 364-X-11-.03

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 1, October 31, 2024

Section 364-X-11-.03 - Seal On Documents

(1) The seal, signature, and serial number of a licensee on a document constitute a certification that the document was prepared by the licensee or under his/her direct supervision or that he/she has reviewed the document in sufficient depth to fully coordinate and assume responsibility for plans prepared by another geologist. A geological report, document, or illustration cannot be submitted in the name of a corporation, company, or partnership without the signature and seal of the licensed geologist accepting the responsibility for the work described. Geological documents include any document, illustration, or paper (including those electronically or photostatically reproduced), resulting from professional services or supervision of professional services, where such services requires the application of geological principles or data. When appropriate, use of electronic or digital reproduction of the seal or stamp is allowed, provided the reproduction is in accordance with 364-X-11-.02 and 364-X-ll-.03(3).

(2) Each sheet of plans, drawings, documents, specifications and reports shall be signed, sealed, and dated by the licensee or permit holder preparing them, or directing and controlling their preparation.

(3) Where more than one (1) sheet is bound together in one (1) volume, the licensee or permit holder who prepared said volume, or under whose direction and control said volume was prepared, may sign, seal, and date only the title or index sheet, providing that the signed sheet clearly identifies all of the other sheets comprising the bound volume, and provided that any of the other sheets which were prepared by or under the direction and control of, another licensee or permit holder, be signed, sealed, and dated by said other licensee or permit holder.

(4) Additions, deletions or other revisions affecting public health and safety or State and local codes shall not be made unless signed, sealed, and dated by the licensee or permit older who made the revisions or under whose direction and control said revisions were made.

(5) Working drawings consisting of sketches, reports or other work products which are in a/hole or part intended to communicate work to be performed or for use in specific proposals and/or becomes a part of defining the scope of a contract for work, written or verbal, must be sealed by the licensed professional geologist who prepared these drawings or under whose supervision they were prepared.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 364-X-11-.03

New Rule: Filed May 10, 1996; effective June 14, 1996. Amended: Filed March 5, 2002; effective April 9, 2002.

Amended by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XXXVI, Issue No. 06, March 30, 2018, eff. 4/19/2018.

Author: Thornton L. Neathery

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, § 34-41-14.