Florida professional engineer seal requirements

A source of ongoing confusion for Professional Engineers relates to signing, dating, and sealing final engineering documents when a physical seal is not used.

Wendy Anderson, FBPE’s lead investigator, regularly answers questions from PEs who are perplexed by the process.

Anderson emphasizes that digital signing and electronic signing are two separate methods of signing and sealing final engineering documents and do not relate to each other.

Rule 61G15-23.004, Florida Administrative Code, relates strictly to digital signing and sealing, while 61G15-23.005 is strictly for electronic signing and sealing.

Do not conflate the requirements in these rules as they are meant to provide two separate ways of electronically filing final engineering documents.

Based on her conversations with PEs and Agencies Having Jurisdiction, Anderson says that most AHJs prefer digital signed and sealed documents, and rarely accept electronic signed and sealed ones.

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