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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="14-4A-02" title_number="14" title_name="Professional Engineers" subtitle_number="4A" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Before a professional engineer issues to a client or submits to a public authority any plan, specification, or report, the professional engineer who prepared or approved the document shall endorse on the document the professional engineer’s:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>original signature and date of signature; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>seal or a facsimile of the seal.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A public authority may not accept any engineering plan, specification, or report unless the document is endorsed as required under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
