UTAH NOTARY UPDATED 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Leaving the notary seal and certificate with the employer upon termination of
employment - ✔✔employer can pay for all of it but cannot cancel it once you leave
Top 10 Mistakes of Notaries Public
✔✔Executing "materially incomplete" certificates - ✔✔say what happened: who signed,
where, when, what (notarial language)
Top 10 Mistakes of Notaries Public
✔✔Notarial certificate - ✔✔the part of the document that includes the notarial language,
notary signature, and seal
what the notary completes
✔✔Signature Witnessing - ✔✔just witness a voluntary signature
✔✔Bond - ✔✔commission not in place until oath and bond in place
$5000 for a term of four years
✔✔Powers and limitations - ✔✔a notary can do a jurat, acknowledgement, signature
witnessing, copy certification, and oath and affirmation
if it is not listed, it can't be performed as a notary
✔✔Form of notarial certificate for document notarization - ✔✔look through formats for
specific wording for each act
✔✔Disqualifications - ✔✔cannot perform notarial act if is a signer on the document,
named in the document, will receive direct compensation from a financial or real
property transaction
unless its a self proved will or I'm an attorney or escrow agent
✔✔Inspection of journal- safekeeping and custody of the journal - ✔✔journal should
only be kept by the notary
employer cannot ask for the journal after employee has stopped working
the max you should keep the journal for is 10 years
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Leaving the notary seal and certificate with the employer upon termination of
employment - ✔✔employer can pay for all of it but cannot cancel it once you leave
Top 10 Mistakes of Notaries Public
✔✔Executing "materially incomplete" certificates - ✔✔say what happened: who signed,
where, when, what (notarial language)
Top 10 Mistakes of Notaries Public
✔✔Notarial certificate - ✔✔the part of the document that includes the notarial language,
notary signature, and seal
what the notary completes
✔✔Signature Witnessing - ✔✔just witness a voluntary signature
✔✔Bond - ✔✔commission not in place until oath and bond in place
$5000 for a term of four years
✔✔Powers and limitations - ✔✔a notary can do a jurat, acknowledgement, signature
witnessing, copy certification, and oath and affirmation
if it is not listed, it can't be performed as a notary
✔✔Form of notarial certificate for document notarization - ✔✔look through formats for
specific wording for each act
✔✔Disqualifications - ✔✔cannot perform notarial act if is a signer on the document,
named in the document, will receive direct compensation from a financial or real
property transaction
unless its a self proved will or I'm an attorney or escrow agent
✔✔Inspection of journal- safekeeping and custody of the journal - ✔✔journal should
only be kept by the notary
employer cannot ask for the journal after employee has stopped working
the max you should keep the journal for is 10 years
