§ 17-15-307 - Official seal. - Arkansas Statutes

17-15-307. Official seal.

(a) Upon registration, each registrant hereunder shall obtain a seal of such design as the Arkansas State Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers shall authorize and direct. Plans and specifications prepared by, or under the direct supervision of, a registered architect shall be stamped with this seal during the life of the registrant's certificate. It shall be unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any documents with the seal after the certificate of the registrant named thereon has expired or has been revoked unless the certificate shall have been renewed or reissued.

(b) No official of this state, or of any county, city, town, or village, now or hereafter charged with the enforcement of laws, ordinances, or regulations relating to the construction or alteration of buildings, shall accept or approve any plans or specifications which have not been prepared and submitted in full accord with all the provisions of this chapter. Nor shall any payment be approved by any public body for any work, the plans and specifications for which have not been so prepared and signed and sealed by the author.