57 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 3 - Revised Uniform Law On Notarial Acts

• Chapter Notes
• Section 301 - Short Title Of Chapter
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts.
• Section 302 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 303 - Applicability
  This chapter applies to a notarial act performed on or after the effective date of this chapter.
• Section 304 - Authority To Perform Notarial Act
  (a) Permitted.--A notarial officer may perform a notarial act authorized by this chapter or by statutory provision other than this chapter. (b) Prohibited.-- (1)...
• Section 305 - Requirements For Certain Notarial Acts
  (a) Acknowledgments.--A notarial officer who takes an acknowledgment of a record shall determine, from personal knowledge or satisfactory evidence of the identity of the...
• Section 306 - Personal Appearance Required
  If a notarial act relates to a statement made in or a signature executed on a record, the individual making the statement or executing...
• Section 307 - Identification Of Individual
  (a) Personal knowledge.--A notarial officer has personal knowledge of the identity of an individual appearing before the notarial officer if the individual is personally...
• Section 308 - Authority To Refuse To Perform Notarial Act
  (a) Specific refusal.--A notarial officer may refuse to perform a notarial act if the notarial officer is not satisfied that: (1) the individual executing...
• Section 309 - Signature If Individual Unable To Sign (Reserved)
  § 309. Signature if individual unable to sign (Reserved).
• Section 310 - Notarial Act In This Commonwealth
  (a) Eligible individuals.--A notarial act may be performed in this Commonwealth by any of the following: (1) A judge of a court of record....
• Section 311 - Notarial Act In Another State
  (a) Effect.--A notarial act performed in another state has the same effect under the law of this Commonwealth as if performed by a notarial...
• Section 312 - Notarial Act Under Authority Of Federally Recognized Indian Tribe
  (a) Effect.--A notarial act performed under the authority and in the jurisdiction of a federally recognized Indian tribe has the same effect as if...
• Section 313 - Notarial Act Under Federal Authority
  (a) Effect.--A notarial act performed under Federal law has the same effect under the law of this Commonwealth as if performed by a notarial...
• Section 314 - Foreign Notarial Act
  (a) (Reserved). (b) Effect.-- (1) This subsection applies to a notarial act: (i) performed under authority and in the jurisdiction of a foreign state...
• Section 315 - Certificate Of Notarial Act
  (a) Requirements.-- (1) A notarial act shall be evidenced by a certificate. (2) Regardless of whether the notarial officer is a notary public, the...
• Section 316 - Short Form Certificates
  The following short form certificates of notarial acts are sufficient for the purposes indicated if completed with the information required by section 315(a) and...
• Section 317 - Official Stamp
  The following shall apply to the official stamp of a notary public: (1) A notary public shall provide and keep an official seal, which...
• Section 318 - Stamping Device
  (a) Security.-- (1) A notary public is responsible for the security of the stamping device of the notary public. A notary public may not...
• Section 319 - Journal
  (a) Maintenance.--A notary public shall maintain a journal in which the notary public records in chronological order all notarial acts that the notary public...
• Section 320 - Notification Regarding Performance Of Notarial Act On Electronic Record; Selection Of Technology
  (a) Selection.--A notary public may select one or more tamper-evident technologies to perform notarial acts with respect to electronic records. A person may not...
• Section 321 - Appointment And Commission As Notary Public; Qualifications; No Immunity Or Benefit
  (a) Eligibility.--An applicant for appointment and commission as a notary public must meet all of the following: (1) Be at least 18 years of...
• Section 322 - Examination, Basic Education And Continuing Education
  (a) Examination.--An applicant for a commission as a notary public who does not hold a commission in this Commonwealth must pass an examination administered...
• Section 323 - Sanctions
  (a) Authority.--The department may deny, refuse to renew, revoke, suspend, reprimand or impose a condition on a commission as notary public for an act...
• Section 324 - Database Of Notaries Public
  The department shall maintain an electronic database of notaries public: (1) through which a person may verify the authority of a notary public to...
• Section 325 - Prohibited Acts
  (a) No authority.--A commission as a notary public does not authorize the notary public to: (1) assist persons in drafting legal records, give legal...
• Section 326 - Validity Of Notarial Acts
  (a) Failures.--Except as otherwise provided in section 304(b) (relating to authority to perform notarial act), the failure of a notarial officer to perform a...
• Section 327 - Regulations
  (a) Authority.--Except as provided in section 329.1(a)(relating to fees of notaries public), the department may promulgate regulations to implement this chapter. Regulations regarding the...
• Section 328 - Notary Public Commission In Effect
  A commission as a notary public in effect on the effective date of this chapter continues until its date of expiration. A notary public...
• Section 329 - Savings Clause
  This chapter does not affect the validity or effect of a notarial act performed before the effective date of this chapter.
• Section 329.1 - Fees Of Notaries Public
  (a) Department.--The fees of notaries public shall be fixed by the department by regulation. (b) Prohibition.--A notary public may not charge or receive a...
• Section 330 - Uniformity Of Application And Construction
  In applying and construing this chapter, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject...
• Section 331 - Relation To Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act
  To the extent permitted by section 102 of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (Public Law 106-229, 15 U.S.C. § 7002),...

Last modified: October 8, 2016