Section 21Sec./Art. 21

Seal and use of seal. - (a) Each registrant shall upon registration, obtain the seal of such design as the Board of Agricultural Engineering may adopt. Plans and specifications prepared by, or under the direct supervision of a registered agricultural engineer, shall be stamped with said seal during the validity of the professional license. No person shall stamp or seal any document with the seal of a registrant after his professional license has expired or lost its validity unless he has been reinstated to the practice and/or unless his license has been renewed.

(b) No officer or employee of the government, chartered cities, provinces and municipalities now or hereafter charged with the enforcement of laws, ordinances or regulations relating to the construction or alteration of agricultural structures, machineries and equipment, processes and systems shall accept or endorse any plans or specifications which have not been prepared and submitted in full accord with the provisions of this Act, nor shall any payment be approved by any such officer for any work, the plans and specifications of which have not been so prepared, signed and sealed by a duly registered agricultural engineer.

(c) No agricultural engineer shall sign his name, affix his seal or use any other method of signature of plans, specifications or other documents made by or under another agricultural engineer's supervision unless the same is made in such manner as to clearly indicate the part of such work actually performed by him, and no person, except the agricultural engineer in charge shall sign for any branch of the work or any function of agricultural engineering practice not actually performed by him. The agricultural engineer in charge shall be fully responsible for all plans, specifications and other documents issued under his seal or authorized signature.

The Board shall formulate, adopt and promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of the provisions relating to the design of the seal, the signing and sealing of drawings, reports and other documents by agricultural engineers.

(d) Drawings and specifications duly signed, stamped or sealed as instruments of service are the property and documents of the agricultural engineer, whether the projects for which they were made is executed or not. No person, without the written consent of the agricultural engineer or author of said documents, shall duplicate or make copies of said documents for use in the repetition of and for other projects or buildings, whether executed partly or in whole.

(e) All drawings, specifications and other documents to be used for the design, construction, test and evaluation of agricultural structures, machineries, equipments, processes and systems shall be signed and sealed by a licensed agricultural engineer.

Violation of any of the foregoing shall be ground for administrative and/or criminal action.