Section 3-501 - Signing and sealing documents.

§ 3-501. Signing and sealing documents.
 

(a)  Required.- Before a licensed architect issues to a client or submits to a public authority any final drawing, plan, specification, report, or other document required for the issuance of a building permit, the licensed architect who prepared or approved the document shall sign, seal, and date the document. 

(b)  Acceptance by public authority.- Subject to exceptions stated and rights granted under § 3-103 of this title, a public authority may not accept any architectural drawing, plan, specification, report, or other document, unless the document is endorsed as required under subsection (a) of this section. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 56, § 470; 1989, ch. 3, § 1; 1992, ch. 351; 2001, ch. 193.]