South Dakota Notary Seal Embosser

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Ideal® is the industry's leading embosser and the Model M is a step up from the less expensive No. 1, which many stores carry.

Handhelds are great for notaries on the go while desk models are best if you don't travel.

The Ideal Model M is a heavy-duty hand notary seal embosser which produces clean, crisp impressions on most paper stocks.

This embosser offers a high degree of leverage, longer paper insertion than entry-level models such as the No. 1, and a die-insert that is interchangeable with the Desk model. When you purchase the Model M handheld embosser, you will also receive a black carrying pouch.

The Ideal Model M Desk embosser features a larger body and is meant to sit atop your desk. Embossments are a bit easier with the desk style due to the greater degree of leverage it offers.

When you order the Model M hand held or Desk model, it will come with a die insert engraved with your notary commission information. If your commission information includes an expiration date, you will simply need to buy a replacement insert when your new term begins.

The Insert listed in our store is just that - the insert ONLY. If you purchase an insert, you should already have an Ideal Model M seal handle to place it in.

Embossers are sometimes called paper crimpers. In many states, an embosser alone is sufficient to perform a notarization; in others, they may only be used in conjunction with notary seal stamps.

What does the law say about the South Dakota Notary Stamp?

South Dakota Notary Handbook

What About the Notary Seal?

Notary Seal may be purchased at an office supply company, stationery store, or a print shop. There are three types of seals that are generally available for purchase -- the embossing seal, the rubber stamp and the perma-stamp. Any one of the three stamps is acceptable as a notary seal. The seal must contain the applicant's name, the words "Notary Public" and "South Dakota", and a border surrounding the imprint. If a rubber stamp is used, the word "Seal" must be included on the stamp.
A notary must write, print or use a separate seal imprint with the words "My commission expires" and the expiration date below the official seal imprint. If the words are printed on the form, the notary need not duplicate them.
It is absolutely necessary that the imprint of the applicant's Notary Seal be included on the Application-Oath and Bond form when it is submitted to the Office of the Secretary of State.

South Dakota Notary Law

18-1-3. Seal, oath, and bond filed with secretary of state.

Every notary public before entering upon the duties of his office, shall provide an official seal and file an impression of the same, together with his oath and bond, in the Office of the Secretary of State.

Source: SL 1862, ch 62, § 8; PolC 1877, ch 17, § 8; CL 1887, § 503; RPolC 1903, § 742; RC 1919, § 5243; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 32.1303.

18-1-3.1. Requirements of notary public seal

Commission expiration date required on notarized document. Any notary public shall have a seal which shall be used for the purpose of acknowledging documents. The seal shall be of a type approved by the secretary of state and shall contain at least the following:

The notary's name;
The words, South Dakota;
The words, notary public; and
A border surrounding the imprint.

In addition, rubber stamp seals shall have the word, seal.
If a seal is used by a notary public, he shall write, or print by a device made for such printing, below the seal's imprint or print and if not provided by the form, the words, my commission expires, and shall provide a date therefor. Any such device shall be separate and apart from the seal. Any notary public using a seal with the commission expiration date included as part of the imprint, prior to the effective date of this section, may use such seal until his current commission expires.

Source: SL 1988, ch 180.

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