"But the CA law doesn't require the person requesting a notarial act to investigate any hints or suspicions the act might be improper."
I was addressing the comment in your previous post where you said: "Just because a notary tells the requester that the act is improper does not mean the requester knows it is improper; the requester might not believe the notary."
I would assume that the first time a person asks someone to backdate, they get a pass because they didn't know any better, so I don't see your example about the "woods" as being relevant. But once someone has been told that "If you ask me to do this again, you are committing a misdemeanor", or words to that affect, they ought to check it out! They've been informed. Not believing what they've been told, while making no effort to discern the facts, is perhaps worse than being ignorant of the law.
'Course, we can all guess that the probable reality is that they just don't care.
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