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AR Code › Title 17 › Chapter 48 › Subchapter 1 › Section 17-48-105

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(a) Each licensed professional surveyor shall: (1) Procure a personal seal, in form approved by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors; and (2) Affix his or her signature and the seal upon all maps, plats, surveys, or other documents before the delivery thereof to any client or before offering to file a record of any such map, plat, survey, or other document in the office of the recorder of deeds of any county or with any proper public authority. (b) A map, plat, survey, or other document within the definition of land surveying that does not have impressed thereon and affixed thereto the personal signature and seal of a licensed professional surveyor by whom the map, plat, survey, or other document was prepared shall not be presented for filing or recording. Amended by Act 2023, No. 277,§ 4, eff. 8/1/2023. Acts 1967, No. 101, §§ 10, 11; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 71-2309, 71-2310; Acts 2005, No. 1178, § 9; 2009, No. 444, § 6.

(a) Each licensed professional surveyor shall: (1) Procure a personal seal, in form approved by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors; and (2) Affix his or her signature and the seal upon all maps, plats, surveys, or other documents before the delivery thereof to any client or before offering to file a record of any such map, plat, survey, or other document in the office of the recorder of deeds of any county or with any proper public authority.

(1) Procure a personal seal, in form approved by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors; and

(2) Affix his or her signature and the seal upon all maps, plats, surveys, or other documents before the delivery thereof to any client or before offering to file a record of any such map, plat, survey, or other document in the office of the recorder of deeds of any county or with any proper public authority.

(b) A map, plat, survey, or other document within the definition of land surveying that does not have impressed thereon and affixed thereto the personal signature and seal of a licensed professional surveyor by whom the map, plat, survey, or other document was prepared shall not be presented for filing or recording.

Amended by Act 2023, No. 277,§ 4, eff. 8/1/2023.

Acts 1967, No. 101, §§ 10, 11; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 71-2309, 71-2310; Acts 2005, No. 1178, § 9; 2009, No. 444, § 6.

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