Comments may be submitted to Jake Pelegrin, Administrative Rules Coordinator, Department of Safety and Professional Services, Division of Policy Development, 4822 Madison Yards Way, P.O. Box 8366, Madison, WI 53708-8366, or by email to DSPSAdminRules@wisconsin.gov. Comments must be received on or before the public hearing, held on a date to be determined, to be included in the record of rule-making proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Section 1. A-E 2.02 (3) is repealed and recreated to read:
A-E 2.02 (3) The registration seal may be an embossing seal, an ink stamp seal, a digitally printed seal, or digitally embedded seal in an electronic file.
Section 2. A-E 2.02 (5) is amended to read:
A-E 2.02 (5) If more than one sheet is bound together in a volume, the registrant or permit credential holder who prepared or directed and controlled the preparation of the volume, may sign, seal and date only the title or index sheet if the signed sheet identifies clearly all other sheets comprising the bound volume and if any other sheets which are prepared by or under the direction and control of another registrant or permit credential holder are signed, sealed and dated by the other registrant or permit credential holder.
Section 3. A-E 2.02 (7) (a) and A-E 2.02 (7) (a) 1. are repealed.
Section 4. A-E 2.02 (7) (b) is amended to read:
A-E 2.02 (7) (b) All seals and stamps on plans, drawings, documents, specifications, and reports to be filed as public documents shall be signed and dated by the registered professional credential holder in one of the following manners:
Section 5. A-E 2.02 (7) (b) 1. and 2. are repealed and recreated to read:
A-E 2.02 (7) (b) 1. Physical placement of a seal and a handwritten signature in permanent ink containing the name of the credential holder and date.
2. Digital placement of a seal and a handwritten signature in permanent ink containing the name of the credential holder and date.
Section 6. A-E 2.02 (7) (b) 2. (Note) is repealed.
Section 7. A-E 2.02 (7) (b) 3. is created to read:
A-E 2.02 (7) (b) 3. Digital placement of a seal and an electronic signature containing the name of the credential holder and date.
Section 8. A-E 2.02 (8) (a) is amended to read:
A-E 2.02 (8) (a) The plans, specifications and calculations shall have been prepared by or under the supervision of an architect or professional engineer licensed some state of the United States, and shall bear the signature and seal and signature or stamp of the architect or professional engineer who prepared them or under whose supervision and control they were prepared.
Section 9. A-E 7.05 (8) is amended to read:
A-E 7.05 (8) The map shall bear the stamp or seal, name, and address, and signature of the professional land surveyor under whose direction and control the property survey was made with a statement certifying that the property survey complies with this chapter and is correct to the best of the professional land surveyor’s knowledge and belief.
Section 10. A-E 7.08 (3) (i) is amended to read:
A-E 7.08 (3) (i) The stamp and signature or seal and signature of the professional land surveyor under whose direction and control the corner location was determined and a statement certifying that the U.S. public land survey monument record is correct and complete to the best of the professional land surveyor’s knowledge and belief.
Section 11. A-E 7.08 (4) (c) is amended to read:
A-E 7.08 (4) (c) The stamp and signature or seal and signature of the professional land surveyor under whose direction and control the corner location was determined or witness monument established.
Section 12. A-E 8.10 (title), (1), (2), and (3) are amended to read:
A-E 8.10 Plan stamping sealing.
A-E 8.10 (1) No architect, landscape architect, professional engineer or designer may sign, seal and sign or stamp any plans, drawings, documents, specifications or reports for architectural, landscape architectural, professional engineering or design practice which are not prepared by the registrant credential holder or under his or her personal direction and control.
A-E 8.10 (2) No professional land surveyor may sign, seal and sign or stamp any maps, plats, charts, or reports for professional land surveying practice which are not prepared by the professional land surveyor or under his or her personal direction and control.
A-E 8.10 (3) No architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer or professional land surveyor shall allow work performed by him or her or under his or her personal direction and control to be signed, sealed and signed or stamped by another except that an architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer or professional land surveyor working under the personal direction and control of another registrant or licensee credential holder may allow that registrant or licensee credential holder to sign and seal and sign or stamp the work.
Section 13. Effective date. The rules adopted in this order shall take effect on the first day of the month following publication in the Wisconsin Administrative Register, pursuant to s. 227.22 (2) (intro.), Stats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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