Change in the California Notary Acknowledgment 2015

The governor approved on August 2014 Senate Bill No. 1050.  Section 1189 of the Civil Code is amended to read (1) Any certificate of acknowledgment taken within this state shall include a notice at the top of the certificate of acknowledgment in an enclosed box stating: “A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.” This notice shall be legible. (2) The physical format of the boxed notice at the top of the certificate of acknowledgment required pursuant to paragraph (3) is an example, for purposes of illustration and not limitation, of the physical format of a boxed notice fulfilling the requirements of paragraph (1).

So the box can have different dimensions.  For example:

ALL PURPOSE ACKNOWLEDGMENT

A notary public or other officer completing this 
certificate verifies only the identity of the
individual who signed the document to which this
certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness,
accuracy, or validity of that document.

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA                         }

COUNTY OF ______________________}

On                               before me ,    ______________________________________________Notary Public,

                                                                                                (here insert name and title of the offi

cer)

personally appeared _

___________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.

I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.

WITNESS my hand and official seal.

Signature: __________________________________(Seal)

_________________________ OPTIONAL _________________________

Description of Attached Document

Title or Type of Document: _______________________________

Number of Pages: ________

Document Date: ____________________

Other: __________________________________________________                                                             2015

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