Section 20Sec./Art. 20

Seal and use of seal. - (a) Each registrant shall, upon registration, obtain the seal of such design as the Board of Geodetic Engineering may adopt. Plans and specifications prepared by, or under the direct supervision of a registered Geodetic 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 all Geodetic Engineering practices shall accept or endorse any survey plans or documents 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 documents of which have not been so prepared, signed and sealed by a duly licensed Geodetic Engineer.

(c) No Geodetic Engineer shall sign his name, affix his seal or use any other method of signature on plans, specifications or other documents made by or under another Geodetic 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 Geodetic Engineer in charge, shall sign for any branch of work or any function of Geodetic Engineering practice not actually performed by him. The Geodetic 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, specifications, reports and other documents by Geodetic Engineers.

(d) Plans and documents duly signed, stamped or sealed as instruments of service are the property and documents of the Geodetic Engineer, if the same has not been accepted and/or paid.