The acknowledgment form also known as a notary certificate will change in
This means that the notary who works in a corporation to notarize documents signed by fellow employees must obtain evidence from the employee, and perhaps even have the employee sign in front of the notary.
If the notary does not follow the procedures to obtain evidence, there may be issues in the future because the new form contains a certification under penalty of perjury that the person signing the document proved to the notary, on the basis of evidence, to be the signer of the document. Satisfactory evidence is identified in Civil Code Sections 1185(b)(3) and (4) as being a California driver’s license or a U.S. passport, or various other identification issued by another state, the U.S. armed forces or a foreign country, provided that the identification has been issued within the last 5 years, contains a photograph.
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