Oregon Bulletin
Rule
Caption: Adds digital stamps and signatures
to architect document stamping methods authorized by the Board.
Adm.
Order No.: BAE 1-2012
Filed with Sec. of
State: 1-4-2012
Certified to be
Effective: 1-4-12
Notice Publication
Date: 11-1-2011
Rules Amended: 806-010-0045
Subject: The revisions of 806-010-0045 will allow for the use
of digital stamps and signatures by architects when submitting construction
documents to building departments. This rule change is necessary to facilitate
the increasing use of electronic means to create, use and submit building
construction documents.
Rules Coordinator: Jim Denno—(503) 763-0662
806-010-0045
Stamps and Signatures
(1) Every registered architect must have a stamp
bearing the name of the registrant, only, together with the city and state in
which the architect’s principal office is located. The stamp may, but need not,
include the architect’s license number issued by the Oregon Board. A facsimile
of the design and the lettering of the stamp appears herewith: [Image not
included. See. ED. NOTE.]
(2)(a) The stamp authorized by the Board must be one of
crimp type, rubber stamp type, or computer generated type.
(b) Computer generated type allows for the arrangement,
organization, configuration, structure, style or method of delivery of the
information contained in the stamp, but does not mean altering the substance of
information or the addition, omission or misuse of information.
(3) The stamp with the registrant’s manual or digital
signature must appear on the original title page of specifications and on every
sheet of the drawings intended for permit and construction, whether or not the
project is exempt under ORS 671.030, and must be the stamp of a registered,
legally responsible member or employee of the firm. The originals may be
reproduced for permit and construction purposes.
(a) A manual signature is the handwritten name of the
registrant applied to a document that identifies the person, serves as a means
of authentication of the contents of the document, provides responsibility for
the creation of the document, and provides for accountability for the contents
of the document.
(b) A digital signature is an electronic document with
a digital authentication process attached. Such a digital signature will carry
the same weight, authority, and effects as a manual signature. The digital
signature, which can be generated by using either a public key infrastructure
or signature dynamics technology, must include the phrase “digital signature”
in place of the handwritten signature or in conjunction with a graphic
reproduction of the signature and be as follows:
(A) Unique to the person using it; and
(B) Capable of verification; and
(C) Under the sole control of the person using it; and
(D) Linked to a document in such a manner that provides
significant security, authentication, and/or encryption; such as when the
electronic signature is invalidated if any data in the document is changed.
(4) An architect may not stamp and sign, or countersign,
or allow his or her stamp to be affixed to any architectural plans, drawings,
documents, specifications or reports not prepared by him or her or under his or
her direct control and supervision.
(5) “Direct control and supervision” as used in ORS 671.020(5)
and 671.090(6) shall be considered to mean that the documents bearing the
architect’s stamp and signature were prepared under the responsible direction
of the architect, that the architect has exercised directing, guiding and
restraining power over the preparation of the documents and that the architect
has exercised his or her professional judgment in all architectural matters
embodied within the documents. This rule is not intended to preclude the use of
current technology or the use of standard details and product specifications in
accomplishing the above objectives.
(a) Reviewing, or reviewing and editing, specifications
and documents intended for permit and construction after they have been
prepared by others does not constitute the exercise of responsible control and
supervision because the reviewer has neither control over nor detailed
knowledge of the content of such submissions throughout their preparation.
(b) Any architect signing or sealing technical
submissions not prepared by that architect, but prepared under the architect’s
responsible control by persons not regularly employed in the office where the
architect is resident, will maintain and make available to the Board, upon
request, adequate records to demonstrate the nature and extent of the
architect’s control over, and detailed knowledge of, such technical submissions
throughout their preparation.
(6) Notwithstanding other sections of this rule, a
successor registered architect may complete a deceased or disabled architect’s
drawings and specifications intended for permitting and construction as though
they were the successor’s original, but must perform a thorough review and will
become fully responsible for the content. The successor registered successor
architect must use his or her own title block, stamp, and signature, and must
remove the title block, stamp, and signature of the deceased or disabled
architect.
[ED. NOTE: Images referenced are
available from the agency.]
Stat. Auth.: ORS 671.125
Stats. Implemented: ORS 671.020
Hist.: AE 5, f. 12-22-64; AE 11,
f. 2-15-74, ef. 3-11-74; AE 2-1978, f. & ef. 3-6-78; AE 1-1979, f. 5-31-79,
ef. 6-1-79; AE 3-1979, f. & ef. 11-29-79; AE 1-1996, f. 1-23-96, cert. ef.
2-1-96; AE 2-1997, f. & cert. ef. 9-24-97; BAE 1-1999, f. & cert. ef.
3-25-99; BAE 3-2000, f. & cert. ef. 7-24-00; BAE 4-2004, f. & cert. ef.
5-5-04; BAE 1-2012, f. & cert. e.f 1-4-12
Notes
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