UTAH NOTARY EVALUATION 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Not Valid Identification - ✔✔*Driver's Privilege Card
*Birth Certificate
*Marriage License
*Social Security Card
*Any other documents when does NOT meet the criteria for Valid Identification
✔✔Satisfactory evidence of identity - ✔✔Identification of an individual based on valid
personal identification with the individual's photograph, signature, and physical
descripton issued by the United States government, any state within the United States
or a foreign government. (or) Valid passport issued by any nation (or) The oat or
affirmation of a credible person who is personally knnown to the notary and who
personally knows the individual.
✔✔Can a notary notarize a will? - ✔✔Yes, unless there is some other reason as found
in title 46 that would categorize the transaction as unlawful.
✔✔Can a notary notarize a document written in another language? - ✔✔Yes. A notary
should not be reading the document.
✔✔46-1-8 A notary may not refuse to... - ✔✔enter into a lawful transaction involving a
notarial act by the notary
✔✔Reference: 46-1-14 For every notarial act, the notary may record the following
information in the journal... - ✔✔a description of the document or proceeding
✔✔The notary is commissioned by the.. - ✔✔Lieutenant Governor--not the employer.
✔✔When a notary leaves employement, the commision remains... - ✔✔in effect until
expiration, cancellation, or resignation.
✔✔By law, the required bond for Notaries Public employed by the state office or agency
is provided by the... - ✔✔Office of Risk Management.
✔✔When a state employee ceases employemtn the notary's coverage & commission...
- ✔✔cancel (are cancelled)
✔✔An employer MAY - ✔✔Pay for the notary's bond & pay for the notary's seal.
✔✔An employer MAY NOT cancel... - ✔✔the bond even if the notary ceases
employement.
, ✔✔An employer MAY NOT confiscate... - ✔✔the seal when the notary ceases
employment.
✔✔Reference 46-1-16(2) A notary shall keep an... - ✔✔official notarial seal that is the
exclusive property of the notary and that may not be used by any other person.
✔✔Reference 46-1-13: If a notary maintains a journal, the notary shall: - ✔✔1.
Safeguard the journal and all other notarial records as valuable public documents and
may not destroy the documents;
2. Keep the journal in the exclusive cusody of the notary, not to be used by any other
notary or surrendered to an employer upon termination of employment.
✔✔Materially incomplete - ✔✔Leaving out the notarial language and failing to name the
signer, leaving out where and when the notarization took place.
✔✔A good rule of thumb for notaries to ask is... - ✔✔What happened?
✔✔Title 57 has a suggested form that, if properly completed,... - ✔✔is sufficient under
any law of the State of Utah.
✔✔Reference 46-1-9: False or incomplete certificate. - ✔✔A notary may not execute a
certificate containing a statement known by the notary to be false or materially
incomplete.
✔✔Reference: 57-2a-7 Statuatory Short Form Form of Acknowledgment - ✔✔The form
of acknowledgemnt set forth in this section, if properly complete, is sufficient under any
law of this state.
✔✔Venue - ✔✔The place of ground you stand on at the time of notarization.
✔✔Utah Code Title 46 - ✔✔Notaries Public Reform Act
✔✔Commission - ✔✔(a) to empower to perform notarial acts & (b) the written authority
to perform those acts.
✔✔Copy certification - ✔✔A notarial act in which a notary certifies that a photocopy is
an accurate copy of a document that is neither a public record nor publicly recorded.
✔✔Notarial act & notarization - ✔✔Any act that a notary is empowered to perform under
this section.
✔✔Notarial certificate - ✔✔The part of or attachment to a notarized document for
completion by the notary and bearing the notary's signature and seal.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Not Valid Identification - ✔✔*Driver's Privilege Card
*Birth Certificate
*Marriage License
*Social Security Card
*Any other documents when does NOT meet the criteria for Valid Identification
✔✔Satisfactory evidence of identity - ✔✔Identification of an individual based on valid
personal identification with the individual's photograph, signature, and physical
descripton issued by the United States government, any state within the United States
or a foreign government. (or) Valid passport issued by any nation (or) The oat or
affirmation of a credible person who is personally knnown to the notary and who
personally knows the individual.
✔✔Can a notary notarize a will? - ✔✔Yes, unless there is some other reason as found
in title 46 that would categorize the transaction as unlawful.
✔✔Can a notary notarize a document written in another language? - ✔✔Yes. A notary
should not be reading the document.
✔✔46-1-8 A notary may not refuse to... - ✔✔enter into a lawful transaction involving a
notarial act by the notary
✔✔Reference: 46-1-14 For every notarial act, the notary may record the following
information in the journal... - ✔✔a description of the document or proceeding
✔✔The notary is commissioned by the.. - ✔✔Lieutenant Governor--not the employer.
✔✔When a notary leaves employement, the commision remains... - ✔✔in effect until
expiration, cancellation, or resignation.
✔✔By law, the required bond for Notaries Public employed by the state office or agency
is provided by the... - ✔✔Office of Risk Management.
✔✔When a state employee ceases employemtn the notary's coverage & commission...
- ✔✔cancel (are cancelled)
✔✔An employer MAY - ✔✔Pay for the notary's bond & pay for the notary's seal.
✔✔An employer MAY NOT cancel... - ✔✔the bond even if the notary ceases
employement.
, ✔✔An employer MAY NOT confiscate... - ✔✔the seal when the notary ceases
employment.
✔✔Reference 46-1-16(2) A notary shall keep an... - ✔✔official notarial seal that is the
exclusive property of the notary and that may not be used by any other person.
✔✔Reference 46-1-13: If a notary maintains a journal, the notary shall: - ✔✔1.
Safeguard the journal and all other notarial records as valuable public documents and
may not destroy the documents;
2. Keep the journal in the exclusive cusody of the notary, not to be used by any other
notary or surrendered to an employer upon termination of employment.
✔✔Materially incomplete - ✔✔Leaving out the notarial language and failing to name the
signer, leaving out where and when the notarization took place.
✔✔A good rule of thumb for notaries to ask is... - ✔✔What happened?
✔✔Title 57 has a suggested form that, if properly completed,... - ✔✔is sufficient under
any law of the State of Utah.
✔✔Reference 46-1-9: False or incomplete certificate. - ✔✔A notary may not execute a
certificate containing a statement known by the notary to be false or materially
incomplete.
✔✔Reference: 57-2a-7 Statuatory Short Form Form of Acknowledgment - ✔✔The form
of acknowledgemnt set forth in this section, if properly complete, is sufficient under any
law of this state.
✔✔Venue - ✔✔The place of ground you stand on at the time of notarization.
✔✔Utah Code Title 46 - ✔✔Notaries Public Reform Act
✔✔Commission - ✔✔(a) to empower to perform notarial acts & (b) the written authority
to perform those acts.
✔✔Copy certification - ✔✔A notarial act in which a notary certifies that a photocopy is
an accurate copy of a document that is neither a public record nor publicly recorded.
✔✔Notarial act & notarization - ✔✔Any act that a notary is empowered to perform under
this section.
✔✔Notarial certificate - ✔✔The part of or attachment to a notarized document for
completion by the notary and bearing the notary's signature and seal.
