- Except as otherwise provided in NRS 240.069, each notary public shall keep a journal in his office in which he shall enter for each notarial act performed, at the time the act is performed:
- The fees charged, if any;
- The title of the document;
- The date on which he performed the service;
- The name and signature of the person whose signature is being notarized;
- A description of the evidence used by the notary public to verify the identification of the person whose signature is being notarized;
- An indication of whether he administered an oath; and
- The type of certificate used to evidence the notarial act, as required pursuant to NRS 240.1655.
- If the notary verifies the identification of the person whose signature is being notarized on the basis of a credible witness, the notary public shall:
- Require the witness to sign the journal in the space provided for the description of the evidence used; and
- Make a notation in the journal that the witness is a credible witness.
- The journal must:
- Be open to public inspection.
- Be in a bound volume with preprinted page numbers.
- A notary public shall, upon request and payment of the fee set forth in NRS 240.100, provide a certified copy of an entry in his journal.
- A notary public shall retain each journal that he has kept pursuant to this section until 7 years after the date on which he ceases to be a notary public.
- A notary public shall file a report with the Secretary of State and the appropriate law enforcement agency if his journal is lost or stolen.
- The provisions of this section do not apply to a person who is authorized to perform a notarial act pursuant to paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of subsection 1 of NRS 240.1635.
[Part 18:49:1883; BH § 2359; C § 2483; RL § 2020; NCL § 2951] + [Part 21:49:1883; BH § 2362; C § 2486; RL § 2023; NCL § 2954]—(NRS A 1967, 533; 1993, 262; 1995, 193, 1596; 1997, 936; 2001, 654)
