# Business Occupations and Professions (GBO)

## Title 14. Professional Engineers

### Subtitle 4A. Miscellaneous Provisions

#### Section 14-4A-01

(a) Each professional engineer may obtain a seal for use as required under Sec. 14-403 of this title.

(b) The seal shall:

  (1) be of a design determined by the Board; and

  (2) include:

    (i) the legend "professional engineer"; and

    (ii) the name and license number of the professional engineer who holds the seal.

#### Section 14-4A-02

(a) 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:

  (1) original signature and date of signature; and

  (2) seal or a facsimile of the seal.

(b) 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.

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Md. Code Ann., Bus. Occ. & Prof. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)