West Virginia Notary Seal Stamp

The law requires that you use your rubber stamp seal on every notarial certificate, and the stamp must be readable.
Your rubber stamp seal must give your official name, your business or residence address, and include the words “Official Seal,” “Notary Public,” “State of West Virginia” and “My commission expires (your date).” The seal must be a rectangle, no larger than one by two and one half inches, with a serrated or milled edge border.
An embossing seal engraved with your name and the words “Notary Seal,” and “State of West Virginia” may be used in conjunction with the rubber stamp seal on the notarial certificate, however, it may not be used without the rubber stamp seal. If you use the embossing seal, you must carefully apply it so the indentations don’t make the printing or writing on the document illegible.

Under or near his official signature on every notarial certificate, a notary public shall rubber stamp clearly and legibly, so that it is capable of photographic reproduction:

The words "Official Seal";
His name exactly as he writes his official signature;
The words "Notary Public," "State of West Virginia" and "My Commission expires (commission expiration date)";
The address of his business or residence in this state; and
A serrated or milled edge border in a rectangular form not more than one inch in width by two and one-half inches in length surrounding the information.

No person holding a notary commission pursuant to former section two, article four, chapter twenty-nine on the effective date of this chapter may be required to obtain or use a rubber stamp seal prior to the expiration of that commission. However, such a notary who was appointed for one or more counties of the state may obtain and use the rubber stamp seal prior to the expiration of that commission if the name of the county in which the notarial act is performed is on the seal used for that act.

Every notary public may provide, keep and use a seal embosser engraved to show the words "Notary Seal," his name, "Notary Public," and "State of West Virginia."
The indentations made by the seal embosser shall not be applied on the notarial certificate or document to be notarized in a manner that will render illegible or incapable of photographic reproduction any of the printed marks or writing.