NOTARY

NOTARY Powers of notary Each notary public is empowered to (1) Take acknowledgments (2) Administer oaths and affirmations (3) Certify that a copy of a document is a true copy of another document (4) Perform any other act permitted by law A Notary disqualified 1. For the purposes of this chapter, a notary public has a disqualifying interest in a transaction in connection with which notarial services are requested if he is named, individually, as a party to the transaction. 2. No notary who has a disqualifying interest in a transaction may legally perform any notarial act in connection with the transaction. Notary to keep journal—exceptions.— Each notary public shall provide and keep a permanently bound journal of his or her notarial acts containing numbered pages, except those notarial acts connected with judicial proceedings, and those for whose public record the law provides and the public record is publicly filed within ninety days of execution. Each notary public shall record in such journal the following: the month, day, and year of notarization; the type of notarization such as acknowledgment or jurat; the type of document; the name and