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A comprehensive overview of the duties and responsibilities of a notary public in the state of nevada. It covers a wide range of topics, including prohibited actions, acceptable identification methods, travel fees, notarial wording requirements, and proper procedures for various notarial acts such as jurats, copy certifications, and acknowledgments. The document also addresses common scenarios and scenarios that a notary public may encounter, along with the appropriate responses and actions to take. Overall, this document serves as a valuable resource for notaries public to ensure they are performing their duties in compliance with state regulations and providing reliable and trustworthy notarial services to the public.
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If a complaint is filed against a Notary, the Notary must respond within: - ANSWERS✔✔ 10 days. Your Notary bond: - ANSWERS✔✔ Protects others in the event you make a mistake. You may charge for acknowledgments: - ANSWERS✔✔ $5 for one document with one signer. If a document signer is 65 years old or older, doesn't have an acceptable ID card and cannot produce a credible witness whom you personally know: - ANSWERS✔✔ You may identify that signer using an ID card issued by a senior-citizen center. For traveling to perform a notarization, you may change: - ANSWERS✔✔ $10 per hour for travel between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., with a two-hour minimum. Regardless of the circumstances, Notaries always are prohibited from: - ANSWERS✔✔ Altering an entry in their Notary journal. If a document presented for notarization has no notarial wording: - ANSWERS✔✔ You may perform the notarization if the signer chooses the notarial wording with no assistance from you. You may identify document signers using: - ANSWERS✔✔ Your own personal knowledge of the signer's identity, A credible witness who knows both you and the signer, and an ID document with the signer's photos and signature. If a document you notarized requires authentication, the Secretary of State will not authenticate it if: - ANSWERS✔✔ You failed to properly notarize the document.
If you perform an acknowledgment for a document signer who is identified by a credible witness, you must complete notarial wording: - ANSWERS✔✔ For someone identified by a credible witness. You must complete notarial wording: - ANSWERS✔✔ Whenever you notarize someone's signature and whenever you certify a copy of a document. as a commissioned Notary, you may perform notarial acts - ANSWERS✔✔ Anywhere in the state of Nevada. If your employer paid for your commission, journal and Notary stamp and you leave that place of employment, you must take your: - ANSWERS✔✔ Commission certificate, journal and stamp with you. The venue on the notarial wording always appears: - ANSWERS✔✔ In the upper left- hand corner. You are asked to drive to a signer's home and arrive at 7:30 pm. You leave home at 6 pm and arrive right on time. For this first leg of your trip, you may charge a travel fee of: - ANSWERS✔✔ $ If a Notary-employee makes a mistake while notarizing for an employer, for any damages that result: - ANSWERS✔✔ Both the Notary and the employer may be liable. Jenny Walkers tells you she needs a certified copy of a handwritten personal letter. In order for you to do so: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must add or attach notarial wording for a certified copy. If a document signer is 65 years old or older, doesn't have an acceptable ID card and cannot produce a credible witness whom you personally know: - ANSWERS✔✔ You may identify that signer using an ID card issued by a government agency.
When you identify a signer using an ID card, the card must contain at least: - ANSWERS✔✔ The signer's photo and signature. If you use a credible witness to identify a document signer: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must personally know the credible witness, the credible witness must personally know the signer, and the credible witness and the signer must be present for the notarization. If the words "subscribing witness" appears in the notarial wording on the document, you need to perform: - ANSWERS✔✔ A subscribing-witness jurat. The notarial wording has information preprinted in it that is incorrect: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must line through the error, write in the correct information, and initial the change. The notarial wording always is located: - ANSWERS✔✔ Below the signature(s) of the document signer(s). For you to notarize someone's signature, the signer must always: - ANSWERS✔✔ Be physically in front of you at the time of notarization. You are asked to drive to a signer's home. The trip takes you 90 minutes each way, and you begin and end your travel between 6 am and 7 pm. For the round trip, you may charge a travel free of: - ANSWERS✔✔ $ You may certify a copy of: - ANSWERS✔✔ HS diploma. Gina and George Lee need two documents notarized; George is the sole signer on one, and both of them are signers of the other. Both documents require jurats. You may charge a total of: - ANSWERS✔✔ $ If a signer presents an already-signed document with notarial wording for a standard jurat on it: - ANSWERS✔✔ The signer must re-sign the document in your presence.
If preprinted notarial wording names two signers but only one is present before you: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must line through the absent signer's name and initial the change. If the notarial wording is missing a required element: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must add the missing element. You may notarize the signature of a subscribing witness only if: - ANSWERS✔✔ The subscribing witness saw the principal signer sign the document. The subscribing witness personally appears before you, the original notarial act on the document was an acknowledgment. Every journal entry you make must include: - ANSWERS✔✔ The type of notarial act you performed. If a Notary is found guilty of official misconduct: - ANSWERS✔✔ The Secretary of State may suspend or revoke the Notary's appointment. You may change an additional fee for travel if: - ANSWERS✔✔ The request for travel comes from the person requesting the notarization, you tell the person requesting the notarization that a travel fee is not required by law, and the person requesting the notarization agrees in advance to your hourly rate. You must keep your Notary supplies in: - ANSWERS✔✔ Your sole control at all times. You always should note it in your journal if: - ANSWERS✔✔ You refused to perform the notarization, you administered an oath or affirmation as part of the notarial act, and you edited out of the notarial wording the name(s) of any absent signer(s). If the words, "true and correct copy" appear in the notarial wording on the document, you need to perform: - ANSWERS✔✔ A copy certification. When you perform a standard jurat: - ANSWERS✔✔ The signer must sign the document in your presence, the signer must swear of affirm that the contents of the document are true, and you must identify the signer.
Ways to protect yourself from liability include: - ANSWERS✔✔ Knowing Nevada's Notary laws, keeping a detailed and accurate journal, and following consistent procedures. In addition to your official signature and stamp, all notarial wording must include: - ANSWERS✔✔ The name of the person for whom the notarial act was performed. The state and county in which the notarization takes place, the date of the notarization, and the name of the person for whom the notarial act was performed. If a signer presents an ID card issued to "Jeff Sharp" but is named in his document as "Jeffrey Sharp," you must: - ANSWERS✔✔ Refuse to perform the notarization: The ID card doesn't sufficiently identify the signer. enter "Jeffrey Sharp" in the notarial wording and your journal. For a certified copy: - ANSWERS✔✔ You may charge $2.50, whatever the number of pages. When a person asks you to certify a copy of a document, that person: - ANSWERS✔✔ Must present the original and you must make the copy. Three people bring you a document to notarize; all three of them will sign it. In your journal: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must make three entries but may use ditto marks for the information that is the same for all three signers, then have each signer sign his or her entry separately. If you use a credible witness to identify a document signer, the witness must: - ANSWERS✔✔ Personally know the signer. If you perform an acknowledgment for a vice president who is signing on behalf of her corporation, you must complete notarial wording: - ANSWERS✔✔ For someone signing in a representative capacity.
If you must attach notarial wording on a separate piece of paper, you must: - ANSWERS✔✔ Staple the notarial wording to the document, write a description of the document on the notarial wording, and note on the document that the notarial wording is attached. The venue on the notarial wording is the state and county: - ANSWERS✔✔ Where the notarization is being performed. T or F: A notarization legalizes a document. - ANSWERS✔✔ False. T or F: A Notary Public is an official of integrity. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: You may identify someone based on personal knowledge, a credible witness, and an approved government issued ID. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: You may accept a Nevada Driver Authorization Card to verify a document signer's identity. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: For someone 55 years or older, you may accept an expired ID card or ID issued by a senior citizen center or other government agency. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: If someone brings you a form that requires a notarization, but that form is missing some information, you can go ahead and write in the information that is missing for the customer. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: After reviewing a document someone brings to you for notarization, the very next thing you should do is sign and stamp the document. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: If the document brought to you for notarization is missing some notarial wording, the customer will write it on the document for you. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: The notary is responsible for ensuring that all components of a complete notarization are present for each notarization they perform. - ANSWERS✔✔ True
T or F: Notarial language/wording informs a third party that the contents of the document are legal. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: Complete notarial language/wording includes: A: The beginning, which includes the venue; B: The middle, which includes the date of notarization and byline with the documents signer's name; C: The end, which includes the notary stamp and signature. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: When filling out the venue while notarizing in Carson City, the County you will put under NEVADA is Carson City. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: You only need to have complete notarial language/wording sometimes. There are occasions where you can just add your notary stamp and signature to a document.
T or F: You must keep your notary journal for the entire time you are an active notary and for seven (7) years after you cease to be a commissioned notary. - ANSWERS✔✔ True. T or F: It is not necessary that you record every notarization you perform. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: In an acknowledgment, the notary is acknowledging that the signer of the document was in the notary's presence, that the notary lawfully ID'd the signer, and that the signer verbally acknowledged that they were willing and able to execute the contents of the document. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: Nevada recognizes three different types of acknowledments. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: You can tell you are dealing with an acknowledgment if you see the words, "Acknowledged before me.." in the notarial wording on the document. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: "Blocking" in the document signer's signature on the byline in the notarial wording helps to prevent another person from adding their name on the byline after the notarization has been done. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: If someone brings you a document and claims to have the ability to sign the document because they hold a Power of Attorney, you can take their word for it and perform the notarization. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: Jurat is short for the Latin, "Juratum est," meaing, "It has been sworn". - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: In a jurat notarization, the document signer is not required by law to sign the document in the notary's presence. - ANSWERS✔✔ False.
T or F: You can tell you will likely be dealing with a jurat if you see the words, "Signed and sworn" or "Subscribed and sworn" in the notarial wording. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: When performing a jurat, the notary must take an oath. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: When completing a journal entry for a jurat notarization, the notary must record jurat/oath under "Type of Notarization" each time they perform a jurat. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: When you are performing a Copy Certification, the document signer does not need to sign the document. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: If someone wants a certified copy of their Marriage Certificate, a notary can provide one for them. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: During a copy certification of a college diploma, the notary would put the notarial wording directly on the original diploma. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: The notary does not need to sign and stamp a copy certification. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: A Credible Witness is someone personally known by both the notary and the document signer. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: The notary must ID the credible witness by using a government issued ID. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: When using a credible witness, the notary will need to have the signature of the document signer and the credible witness in their notary journal for that one entry. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: The notary does not need to give the credible witness an oath when performing the notarization using a credible witness. - ANSWERS✔✔ False.
T or F: On the Acknowledgment of Credible Witness, there will be two bylines, one for the document signer and one for the credible witness. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: If you are brought a document with no notarial wording present, you can tell the customer what type of wording you think they need. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: If someone brings you a document with multiple document signers, but only one of them is present, you cannot notarize the document until all of them are present at once. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: If a document has multiple document signers, each document signer can take the document to be notarized by a different notary. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: If someone brings you a document with no notarial wording on it and instructs you to add acknowledgment wording, but you disagree with them, you should tell them so. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: You should attach a loose notarial certificate only as a last resort. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: On a loose notarial certificate, you must write the Title and Date of the document it is attached to. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: You do not need to note in your journal if you use a loose notarial certificate. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: On the document that a loose notarial certificate is attached to, you must write at the bottom, "Loose Notarial Certificate Attached" or "Loose Certificate Attached". - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: It would be a good idea to paper-clip the loose notarial certificate and document together. - ANSWERS✔✔ False
T or F: You may charge whatever you feel is fair for a notarization. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: For an acknowledgment, you may charge $5 for the first signature on one document. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: Jurats are always $2.50 - ANSWERS✔✔ False, $ T or F: You must charge for each notarization you perform. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: You are not required to charge a travel fee if you travel for a notarization. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: You can surprise your customer with the travel fee once you arrive at their location. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: There is a two hour minimum for traveling to a customer, but not for returning.
T or F: You may notarize a document that your spouse in named in. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: Your surety bond protects you in the case a third party is harmed by a notarization you perform. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: The employer of a notary is not liable if a customer is harmed by a notarization the notary performed. - ANSWERS✔✔ False T or F: A notary is liable to the Court, to the Secretary of State's office, and to their bond. - ANSWERS✔✔ True T or F: A notary is only liable if they intentionally performed an improper notarization.
Your neighbor Lucy Jones, has asked you to notarize her brother Robert's signature. Robert has lost his identification. Can you notarize Robert's signature. - ANSWERS✔✔ Yes What notary language would you use? - ANSWERS✔✔ Credible witness How many signature's will you have in your journal? - ANSWERS✔✔ Two Will you administer an oath? - ANSWERS✔✔ Yes Who will you administer the oath to? - ANSWERS✔✔ Credible witness You have been asked to notarize a document that requires three signatures. Two of the document signers are present. The notarial wording is preprinted on the document and lists all three names. What do you do? - ANSWERS✔✔ Notarize the signatures of the two individuals present and edit the notarial language by crossing out the name of the person who did not appear. You arrive at work and on your desk is a stack of signed documents. Attached is a note from your supervisor that reads, "I have signed the attached documents. Please notarize" what do you do? - ANSWERS✔✔ Do not notarize. You have been asked to notarize a signature on a document that contains many pages. After notarizing the document signers' signature, the document signer requests that you stamp and sign each page to show that all the pages were present at the time of notarization. What do you do? - ANSWERS✔✔ Do not do You reside in Reno, but travel to Carson City to perform a notarization. How will you complete the venue in your notarial wording? - ANSWERS✔✔ State of Nevada, Carson City You have been asked to notarize a signature on a document that contains no notarial wording. What do you do? - ANSWERS✔✔ Get direction from the document signer.
For you to notarize someone's signature: - ANSWERS✔✔ Both you and the signer must be present. If you perform an acknowledgment for a vice president who is signing on behalf of her corporation, you must complete notarial wording: - ANSWERS✔✔ For someone signing in a representative capacity. Unacceptable forms of identification include: - ANSWERS✔✔ A NV Drivers authorization card If you use a credible witness to identify a document signer: - ANSWERS✔✔ The document signer must sign your journal When you preform an acknowledgment: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must identify the signer The preprinted notarial wording on a document includes the phrase "Notary Public in and for the county of _____, State of _____." This phrase is asking for the county and state: - ANSWERS✔✔ In which you are commissioned. When a person asks you to certify a copy of a document: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must make the copy of the document, the person's name must appear in the notarial wording, and you must certify that the copy is true and correct. The notarial wording: - ANSWERS✔✔ Tells a third party what you and the signer did, what actions you need to take, and identifies the state and county in which the notarization took place. Regardless of the circumstances, Notaries always are prohibited from: - ANSWERS✔✔ Altering an entry in their Notary journal. You may identify document signers using: - ANSWERS✔✔ Your own personal knowledge of the signer's identity, a credible witness who knows both you and the signer, and an ID document with the signer's photo and signature.
For you to notarize someone's signature, the signer must always: - ANSWERS✔✔ Be physically in front of you at the time of notarization. You may charge an additional fee for travel if: - ANSWERS✔✔ The request for travel comes from the person requesting the notarization, you tell the person requesting the notarization that a travel fee is not required by law, and the person requesting the notarization agrees in advance to your hourly rate. If you must attached notarial wording on a separate piece of paper, you must: - ANSWERS✔✔ Staple the notarial wording to the document, write a description of the document on the notarial wording, and note on the document that the notarial wording is attached. If you use a credible witness to identify a document signer, the witness must: - ANSWERS✔✔ Personally know the signer. Carlos Ramirez brings you four different documents to notarize; he is the sole signer on all of them. In your journal: - ANSWERS✔✔ You must make four entries but may use ditto marks for the information that is the same for all four documents, then have Carlos sign on a diagonal line across all four entries. You must complete notarial wording: - ANSWERS✔✔ Whenever you notarize someone's signature and whenever you certify a copy of a document. A notary public is: - ANSWERS✔✔ An impartial witness A public official Appointed by the Sec of State If a signer presents an already-signed document with notarial wording for an acknowledgment on it: - ANSWERS✔✔ The signer must verbally acknowledge that the signature is his or hers.
When you notarize the signature of a subscribing witness, you must use notarial wording for: - ANSWERS✔✔ A subscribing witness jurat. You may charge for jurats: - ANSWERS✔✔ $5 for one document with one signer. As a Nevada notary, you may: - ANSWERS✔✔ Take acknowledgements, certify copies of some documents, and perform jurats. Notarize a personal statement. You may not: Certify a copy of a divorce decree, perform a jurat over the phone. You may charge for acknowledgments: - ANSWERS✔✔ $5 for one document with one signer. You must keep your notary supplies in: - ANSWERS✔✔ You sole control at all times and a secret location when you're not using them. In addition to your official signature and stamp, all notarial wording must include: - ANSWERS✔✔ Is it legal to certify a copy of a birth, death, or marriage certificate, or a decree of divorce, as being true and correct? - ANSWERS✔✔ No. Pursuant to NRS 440.175(2):
The state and county - ANSWERS✔✔