Actually, it's *NOT* the vendor education manual. It's a sample manual that vendors can use to teach their courses. It's what students are given for their 6-hour class. The SOS allows them t o just change the title page and use it as the course manual that they give to students. If they want to create a different manual/workbook, they have to submit it for approval. This is the pre-written, pre-approved one that anyone can use.
As it says on the cover:
"This Sample Workbook contains all the material a person is expected to know to pass the written notary public examination prescribed by the California Secretary of State pursuant to California Government Code section 8201(a)(4)."
As I noted earlier, though... the LAW still doesn't give the notary the direction to decide what "very difficult or impossible" is. The only time that is mentioned is in relation to the CW and what they swear to.
From Civil Code 1185:
"That it is the reasonable belief of the witness that the circumstances of the person making the acknowledgment are such that it would be very difficult or impossible for that person to obtain another form of identification."
The reasonable belief of the witness.... *not* the notary. That's what I've been trying to point out. Nowhere in the handbook or the official law will you find that phrase in relation to the notary. |
