Statute

Article - Business Occupations and Professions

§14–103.

(a) All engineering documents prepared in connection with the alteration, construction, design, or repair of a building, structure, building engineering system and its components, machine, equipment, process, works, subsystem, project, public or private utility, or facility in the built or economic environment where the skills of a professional engineer are required, shall be signed, sealed, and dated by the professional engineer who prepared or approved the documents.

Regulations

.09 Sealing Requirements.

A. A licensee may sign and seal plans, specifications, drawings, reports, or other documents that are required to be signed and sealed pursuant to the Business Occupations and Professions Article, §14-403, Annotated Code of Maryland, only if the following requirements are met:

(1) The licensee is competent in the subject matter of those documents by virtue of education or experience, or both; and

(2) The licensee either:

(a) Personally prepared the documents, or

(b) Approved the documents.

B. Definition. For purposes of §A(2)(b) of this regulation, the term "approved" means that the licensee satisfied the following criteria:

(1) Had technical knowledge and responsible control over the content of technical submissions during their preparation; and

(2) Performed substantive review and had authority to make revisions with regard to the preparation of submissions described in this regulation.

C. A licensee may complete, correct, revise, or add to the work performed by another licensee when engaged to do so by a client, if the following requirements are met:

(1) The client furnishes the documentation of the work submitted to the client by the first licensee;

(2) The first licensee, if still engaged in a business of providing engineering services, is notified in writing by the second licensee of the engagement referred to in this section immediately upon acceptance of the engagement; and

(3) The second licensee signs, seals, and is responsible for the completions, corrections, revisions, or additions that the second licensee made.

D. Nothing in §C of this regulation is intended to relieve the first licensee from any liability that the first licensee is deemed to assume for work performed by the first licensee pursuant to the requirements set forth in this regulation.

.10 Titleblock Rules.

A. A person may not remove a titleblock from any print or reproduction of the documents described in this chapter.

B. The titleblock shall contain at least the printed name of the engineering entity.

C. The directors of a corporation, partners of a partnership, or members of a limited liability company through which engineering is practiced, may designate another employee of the entity to sign and seal the documents in accordance with the requirements set forth in this chapter, if:

(1) The designee is licensed in the State to practice engineering; and

(2) The designee prepared or approved the documents for a particular project in accordance with this chapter.

D. Documents described in this chapter shall contain the following certification: “Professional Certification. I hereby certify that these documents were prepared or approved by me, and that I am a duly licensed professional engineer under the laws of the State of Maryland, License No. ______, Expiration Date: _______”