For what it's worth, laws in both Texas and Pennsylvania require that certificates of acknowledgments must be substantially in the form of the certificates provided by the respective states.
California acknowledgments are substantially the same as many other states' forms of acknowledgments, but certainly not all.
Amending the certificate language that isn't substantially the same is an alternative to automatically attaching a loose certificate. It saves paper and maintains the accuracy of the recording fee stated on the settlement statement / closing disclosure.
In Texas, $4.00 is added to the recording fee and can't be passed on to the borrower/buyer as a closing cost. (In California, the extra page causes an additional $3.00. In Florida, the amount jumps by $8.50 for an additional page.) That amount has to be absorbed by the title company as a cost of using a signing agent.
(Once a notary attaches an acknowledgment, the unused acknowledgment really can't be removed because most notaries indicate the number of pages in the document on the attached certificate and the page count includes the original unused certificate.)
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