1. A. The Board shall issue to any applicant who, in the opinion of the Board, has met the requirements of Section 475.1 et seq. of this title, a certificate of licensure giving the licensee proper authority to practice in this state. The certificate of licensure for an engineer shall carry the designation "Professional Engineer" and for a land surveyor, "Professional Land Surveyor". It shall give the full legal name and license number of the licensee and shall be signed by the Chair and the Secretary under seal of the Board.
2. B. This certificate shall be prima facie evidence that the person named therein is entitled to all rights, privileges and responsibilities of a professional engineer or professional land surveyor, while said certificate remains effective.

3. C. Each licensee hereunder must, upon licensure, obtain a seal, the design and use of which are described below. It shall be unlawful for a licensee to affix, or permit the seal to be affixed, to any document as listed below after the expiration or revocation of a certificate of licensure, or for the purpose of aiding or abetting any other person to evade or attempt to evade any provision of Section 475.1 et seq. of this title.

   1. 1. The seal shall be a rubber stamp, an electronically digitized seal, printed seal, or a metal impression seal. Whenever the seal is applied, the original handwritten signature of the licensee and handwritten date of signature shall be written adjacent to or across the seal. No further words or wording are required. A facsimile signature or electronically digitized signature will not be acceptable.
   2. 2. The seal and dated signature shall be placed on all final specifications, land surveys, reports, plats, drawings, plans, design information and calculations whenever presented to a client, a user, or any public or governmental agency.
   3. 3. The seal shall be placed on all originals, tracings or other reproducible documents and shall be signed and dated by the licensee in such a manner that the seal, signature and date will be legible when reproduced. The application of the handwritten, dated signature of the licensee to the sealed document shall constitute certification that the work thereon was done by the licensee or under the direct supervision or control of the licensee.
   4. 4. In the case where multiple licensees are involved, each sheet in a set of drawings shall contain the seal and dated signature of the licensee responsible for that portion of the work. For bound documents produced by multiple licensees, either each document in the bound set shall be sealed, signed, and dated by the licensee in responsible charge for each document, or the cover sheet or index page shall be sealed, signed, and dated by each licensee with the responsibility of each licensee clearly indicated.
   5. 5. In the case of a firm, each separate document, the first page of a bound document, and, in the case of multiple licensees, the portion of the work for which each firm is responsible, shall also show the name of the firm, the firm's Certificate of Authorization number, and the renewal date of the Certificate of Authorization.
   6. 6. In the case where the work consists of a letter or report, or a permanently bound set of calculations or specifications, the licensee is only required to sign, seal and date the first page, title page or signature page.
   7. 7. A licensee shall not seal, sign, date, or allow a seal or signature of a licensee to appear on any work that is not prepared by the licensee or under the direct control and personal supervision of the licensee.
   8. 8. In the case of a temporary permit issued to a licensee of another state, the permit holder shall affix the seal from the resident state, together with the temporary permit number from this Board and the permit holder’s original handwritten signature and date, to all work authorized by the temporary permit for which the permit holder is responsible.

   9. 9. The design of the seal shall be determined by the Board; however, the following minimum information shall be on the seal:

      1. a. the words "State of Oklahoma",
      2. b. the name of the licensee,
      3. c. the license number of the licensee, and
      4. d. the words "Licensed Professional Engineer" or " Licensed Professional Land Surveyor"; existing seals containing the words "Registered Land Surveyor", "Registered Professional Land Surveyor", and "Registered Professional Engineer" may continue to be used.
4. D. The Board shall issue to any applicant who, in the opinion of the Board, has met the requirements of Section 475.1 et seq. of this title, an enrollment card as an engineer intern or land surveyor intern which indicates that applicant's name has been recorded as such in the Board office. The engineer intern or land surveyor intern enrollment card does not authorize the holder to practice as a professional engineer or professional land surveyor.

Laws 1968, SB 524, c. 245, § 15, emerg. eff. April 26, 1968; Amended by Laws 1982, SB 616, c. 297, § 15; Amended by Laws 1992, SB 799, c. 165, § 13, emerg. eff. July 1, 1992; Amended by Laws 2005, HB 1607, c. 115, § 14, eff. November 1, 2005 (superseded document available).