Updated 2-5-19. If you've ever asked why you need to keep a Notary journal, or what information a Notary needs to record in it, this article has answers to many of the most commonly asked questions. Should Every Notary Keep A Journal?Yes. Most states require or strongly recommend that Notaries own and maintain a journal or record book of the acts they perform.Why is that?
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It is an important tool that provides a written record of the Notary’s official acts. It contains details of the transaction in the event a notarized document is lost, altered, or if facts concerning the.For example, one California Notary told the Notary Bulletin how she was contacted by signers nearly a year after notarizing loan documents for them. A lender had misplaced the signers’ papers, and as a result the deed to the signers’ home wasn’t properly recorded. The Notary’s journal record provided evidence that the loan documents had been notarized and helped keep the signers from losing their home.Even if not required in your state, a well-kept journal can provide supporting evidence that you acted properly during a transaction if you are ever accused of an inadvertent or willful mistake. For example, while Florida does not require Notaries to keep a journal, state officials have strongly recommended that Florida Notaries voluntarily do so.
Colorado does not require Notaries to keep a journal if the Notary's employer retains the documents the Notary notarizes in the course of normal business. However, Colorado officials still strongly encourage Notaries to keep journals in the event the Notary faces a liability claim and can't access previously notarized documents kept by the Notary's employer.Information in Notary journals also has helped investigators locate and arrest dishonest or forgeries. What Kind Of Journal Should I Keep?Some states require a journal’s format to include certain features. For example, Arizona specifies that Notaries must keep a paper journal and Tennessee requires the journal to be a “well-bound book” or 'an appropriate electronic form.' If not specified by state law, the NNA recommends that Notaries keep a, and that entries be recorded in chronological order to prevent tampering.
What Information About A Notarization Needs To Be Included In The Journal Entry?Some states specify in their Notary laws what information can and cannot be recorded in a journal entry. California requires Notaries record the date, time and type of notarization; type of document notarized; signature of any signer notarized; how the signer was identified; the fee charged, if any, and the signer's thumbprint if the document notarized is a power of attorney, deed, quitclaim deed, deed of trust or other document affecting real propertyTexas and Montana require Notaries to record how each signer was identified but prohibit Notaries from recording a signer's personal identifying numbers such as a Social Security number or the serial number of any identification documents presented. You should always follow your state’s laws when entering journal information.If your state does not provide guidance, the NNA recommends including the following information in each entry.
The Montana Notary Handbook clarifies that today a journal may be in electronic or paper form. It also says a paper journal should be “bound” and may not be a loose-leaf notebook. The Handbook also says the Secretary of State has not defined a specific format for the journal, and leaves it up to each Notary to choose the design that fits their particular demands best.
The journal must contain all of the information required by statute. The Handbook does not say anything about using blank journals; it assumes Notaries will select a Notary journal produced specifically for recording notarial acts. A CA Notary must make a journal entry for each notarial act performed. Each entry must include: the date, time and type of each official act; the character of every instrument sworn to, affirmed, acknowledged or proved before the Notary (for example, a Deed of Trust); the signature of each person whose signature is notarized; and a statement that the identity of the person making an acknowledgment or taking an oath or affirmation was based on satisfactory evidence pursuant to Civil Code section 1185.
(Government Code section 8206(a)). While normally Notary journals in CA are turned in to the county clerk's office upon the Notary's resignation, because of the age of the journal in question (34 years ago), we're not certain if the county clerk's office would accept this journal to be turned in. Notarial journals that have been depositedwith the county clerk may be destroyed upon court order after 10 years, provided that no request for or reference to them has been made during that time (GC 8209c). You may wish to contact the county clerk's office where your commission was filed to find out if they wish you to turn the journal over to them or if they wish you to destroy it.
My original notary commission expired 13 years ago. During that prior commission I provided services primarily for my employer. I was laid off and stored my notary journal and seal in my locked garage with other paperwork. I later forgot the journal and seal were there. Years later after a move to a new city I have decided to become a notary, for a different employer and I do not remember ever turning in my journals.
I have looked through boxes and files and I cannot locate the journal- I strongly believe I watched the box which contained the journal, and all contents therein, be shredded with old tax documents. This occurred about 2 years ago. I know the journal entries would be more than 10 years old and therefore available for destruction by court order (I am in California).
But I am worried that 1) my new notary commission will be denied, and 2) I am open to liability to the secretary of state. What should I do? Notify the secretary of state now, 13 years after the notarizations were performed? You should notify the Secretary of State's office by certified or registered mail about the lost journal. The notification should include the time period covered by the journal, your Notary commission number and the date your commission expired. The address is California Secretary of State, Notary Public Section, PO Box 942877, Sacramento, CA.
If you have other questions or concerns about this issue, you can contact the Secretary of State's office by phone at 1-916-653-3595. No, the required information for a journal in CA is: 1. Date time and type of official act; 2. Type or title of the document; 3.
Signature of any person whose signature is notarized; 3. Statement regarding the type of evidence used to identify the signer (including the serial or identifying number, type of ID and date of issue or expriation); 4. The fee charged for the notarial act and 5. Signer's right thumbprint for a document affecting real property such as a deed, quitclaim deed or deed of trust.
(GC 8206a). My commission has just expired and I'm not renewing. In the four years of being a Notary I have never Notarized anything-so my Journal is blank. My question's are:1) Does the blank journal need to go to the County Clerks office where I originally toke my oath?2) I now live about two-hundred miles from the County Clerk' office where I was commissioned: can I certify mail the journal to the County Clerk's office?3) My commission has expired, so there is no need to send a letter of resignation to the Secretary of State. Is that correct?
In State Of Calfiornia.Someone comes in with a document all filled out. The document had the correct wording.However, the box was not at the top but rather at the bottom. So, I had the signature make a line through the incorrect wording and initial it.
I did nit want to touch the document. I added a loos certificate with my name as, notary public with date and and the signatures name. Type of document and date put in with the signatures initial as document had no date.
So we used same date of when they were in front of me. Texas Notary journal entries are public records and 'open for public examination and inspection at all reasonable times.'
(CPRC 121.012e; see also GC 406.014b). Texas Notaries must provide a certified copy of any notarial record to any person requesting a copy upon payment of the fees allowed by law. (The fee for providing a copy of a record or paper kept in the Notary's office is 50 cents per page) (GC 406.014c and 1 TAC 87.42) Failure to respond to a request for public information may be grounds for disciplinary action against the Notary. (1 TAC 87.43) The Secretary of State suggests that all requests for copies of entries in a Notary’s record book be made in writing through a certified letter to the Notary’s official address on file, thereby providing evidence for a complaint if the Notary fails to comply. In Illinois, a journal entry is only required for certain notarizations. Under a pilot program in effect from June 1, 2009, through June 30, 2018, Illinois Notaries must create a separate “Notarial Record,” which includes a thumbprint, each time a notarization is performed on certain conveyances for residential real property in Cook County.
Depending on the circumstances, each Notarial Record must then be surrendered to the Notary’s employer or to the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Other types of notarizations do not require a journal entry in Illinois. However, state officials have said that a Notary may keep a journal for his or her own record keeping if desired. In California, does the 'no ditto marks' requirement apply to everything in my journal or just to the columns that California requires to be filled in. For instance, can I use ditto marks in the Additional Information column?Also, I know we aren't supposed to use abbreviations in the journal, but what about for dates? Can I use instead of December 20, 2016? And, can I use '12/20/16' on the Acknowledgment form or do I have to write out the whole date?
Sometimes the blank I'm given on pre-printed forms isn't long enough to write out the date. The Secretary of State's 2014 Notary Newsletter, page 4, states: 'Remember that you may be asked to provide a copy of a line item in your journal, which is why each line item entry must be complete.
You cannot use hash marks, ditto marks, arrows, or other shortcuts.' Based on this, you should fill in all sections of the journal entry completely without using ditto marks.GC 8206a states that each journal entry must include the date, time and type of each official act. The law does not specify a particular format that must be used when the date is entered. However, please remember that you will need to enter the time the notarization took place along with the month, year and day in each journal entry. FL- I just completed my 3 hour course to become a Notary.
I was told to contact a Bonding agency that's approved to operate in the state of FL. What are the required materials I need to purchase? Should it just be the commission certificate and notary seal? They have a list of other things to purchase, which raises the cost of my package tremendously. I just need to know what's required only?
Seems like these are not required.Notary journal, Embosser Seal,State Approved Rectangular Notary Stamp, Jurat stamp, Acknowledgement Stamp?Thank you. Government Code 8206a says that each Notary journal entry must include 'The fee charged for the notarial service.'
GC 8206 does not specify a particular format that must be used if no fee is charged, and does not address whether an employer can specify the format for information recorded in a Notary's journal.If you need additional assistance, you may wish to contact our Hotline team at hotline@nationalnotary.org, or you can directly contact the CA Secretary of State's office at (916) 653–3595. No, the signer's address is not a required part of the journal entry. The following are the required elements for each journal entry in CA: 1. Date, time and type of each official act; 2.Character (type or title) of every document sworn to, affirmed, acknowledged or proved before the Notary; 3. Signature of each person whose signature is notarized, including the signature of any subscribing witness and the mark of a signer; 4. Statement regarding the type of satisfactory evidence relied on to identify the signer; 5.
Fee charged for the notarial act or, if no fee was charged, “No Fee” or “0”; 6. If document is a power of attorney, deed, quitclaim deed, deed of trust or other document affecting real property, the right thumbprint (or any other available print) of the signer. (GC 8206a). State of California.
Someone walks into my office for a document to be notarized. They show me their license which is from Washington State and it is legit. However, they are now living in Los Angeles, CA. I understand in the journal I place the type of ID, License Number and Expiration date of license.I also have them print their name and sign the journal.
However, what address do I place in the journal- the Washington Address shown on the license or the California address they have given(told) me?Finally, what if document says Anna William Smith but their license says Anna W Smith- is this okay? Thank you for all the Q's and A's! I have seen this query posed several times throughout this FAQ section and no specific answer has been given. In CA, CC section (GC 8206a) does not specify in any manner that multiple signatures from the same person need to be recorded in the official journal, other than recording each instrument.To clarify: 1 single person to be notarized presents 3 documents. Those 3 documents can be listed in the official journal, but the notary has the signer sign the signature line only once for all 3 documents. The thumbprint is collected (Deed) and the fees are recorded appropriately ($45/$15x3) while no.ditto marks. or.arrows.
are used. As I have reviewed this section on many occasions, this code (and many interpretations thereof) is ambiguous at best and a single collection of a signer for multiple documents at one time should be easily be defended in court.Common sense tells me that the signers signature will be different each time, based on the document & the signature line and neither will ever perfectly match.
There is no point in wasting resources collecting multiple signatures and fingerprints (which certainly won't change) for a single person. Many notaries have been known to complete/execute several hundred documents in a single sitting. This could use several journals (and stamp refills) for a single signer (I know, I've done it.) Please (and THANK YOU!) clarify any updates in actual affected, altered, amended Civil Codes so we can have a positive answer.FWIW, my very first commission was completed using an onsite NNA course immediately followed by the state proctored exam. In that course, we were all trained to collect a single signature from the citizen, while using the NNA Journal of Official Records to record multiple documents; except we couldn't say 'Loan Docs' - it had to spell out each actual document.Thank you for your time and attention and your patience to my long-winded, whiny, detailed gripe.:) Cheers! The Secretary of State's office has stated in its 2017 Notary Newsletter that a signature is required for each line item in your journal.
Page 4 states: 'Not only must a notary public have a separatejournal entry for each type of notarization, a specific description of the document, and the time and date of the official act, California Government Code section 8206(a)(2)(C) requires the signature for eachline item. Capturing a single signature on a diagonal line drawn through several line items in an attempt to show one person signed for multiple documents is contrary to notary public law.' You can read the California Secretary of State's newsletter here: http://notary.cdn.sos.ca.gov/forms/notary-newsletter-2017.pdf. When completing the notary journal in for notaries in CALIFORNIA.can we leave the information buckets that is not required such as 'address where notarization performed' and 'additional information' BLANK or does CALIFORNIA NOTARY LAW requires us to either draw a diagonal line through the the specific journal box or put the word NA and does not allow blank buckets in the notary journal?? I'm referencing to the notary journal example above.not all of the 9 bucket are required in California.so are we allowed to leave the buckets that are not required BLANK if or do we have to draw a diagonal line or put the word NA? CA law (GC 8206a) requires the following information for each Notary journal entry: 1. Date, time and type of each official act; 2.
Character (type or title) of every document sworn to, affirmed, acknowledged or proved before the Notary; 3. Signature of each person whose signature is notarized, including the signature of any subscribing witness and the mark of a signer; 4.
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Statement regarding the type of satisfactory evidence relied on to identify the signer; 5. Fee charged for the notarial act; 6. If the document is a power of attorney, deed, quitclaim deed, deed of trust or other document affectingreal property, the right thumbprint or any other available print) of the signer. State Notary law does not require you to line through, cross out or write 'NA' in unused sections for optional information in your journal entry, but you may do so if you choose to. Because New York law does not require its Notaries to keep journals, there are no guidelines regarding the disposition of old Notary records. However, in the absence of guidelines provided by state law, the Notary Public Code of Professional Responsibility recommends keeping the journals for 10 years from the date of the last entry in the journal. If you choose to dispose of your journals, it should be done in such a way that an unauthorized person would not be able to access the private customer information in the entries.
(For example, by shredding the journal pages so no one can read the information after they are disposed of.). California notary. My commission expired Jan 1st.
I received my new (renewed) commission Jan 27th, but didn't turn in the filing paperwork, bond, and swear the oath until Feb 6th. Can I still use my existing journal, or do I need to start a new one? I know I have to turn in my journal if 30 days has passed from the expiration of my old commission until the start of my new commission, but I don't know if the new commission starts with the date on my notary commission certificate (Jan 27th) or if it starts the day I turn in the other paperwork and swear the oath (Feb 6th). We're sorry, but California's Notary law does not address whether or not an employer may require an employee to use a journal with a specific colored cover or not. The law does state, however, that the journal is the Notary's exclusive property and responsibility: “The journal of notarial acts of a notary public is the exclusive property of that notary public, and shall not be surrendered to an employer upon termination of employment, whether or not the employer paid for the journal, or at any other time. The notary public shall not surrender the journal to any other person.” (GC 8206d).
Illinois does not require Notaries to keep a journal, so there are no rules regarding maintaining more than one journal. We were unable to find any specific information in the Illinois Notary laws addressing keeping more than one seal. However, the state Notary Public Handbook does recommend that if you lose possession of your seal, you should report it to the police and resign your commission immediately. So if a Notary did keep a pair of seals and lost one, the recommended step would be to report the loss and resign the commission. While Texas Notary law does not specifically address this issue, as a general practice, you should not place your journal in a situation where a signer could possibly see or access information to unrelated private information in other journal entries.
Article IX-B-1 of The Notary Public Code Of Professional Responsibility states, 'The Notary shall not divulge information about the circumstances of a notarial act to any person who does nothave clear lawful authority and a need to know.' Allowing a signer access to your journal to complete part of an entry could potentially reveal information about other notarizations on the same page that the signer should not have access to.
It would be more secure for you to record all required information in the journal yourself.
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