Posted by Linda_in_MI on 5/17/06 7:25am
Msg #120387
Amendment to Michigan Notary Act
Michigan Notaries: On May 16, SB908 was presented to Gov. Granholm for signature. This bill amends PA238, which sets the requirements and criteria for notaries in Michigan. In summary it removes the requirement for the phrase "Acting in the County of" if the notarization is performed in the county of commission.
If you want to see the history of the bill or the text showing lineouts, here is the link. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(zyq3by55kidhi4uhfhbejj45)/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=2005-SB-0908
Following is a copy of the House analysis of the changes:
Senate Bill 908 amends the Michigan Notary Public Act (MCL 55.287 and 307) in the following ways.
** On each record for which a notary public performs a "notarial act," the notary public must list both the county in which he or she is commissioned and the county in which the notarial act is being performed. (A notary public can perform a notarial act anywhere in the state but is officially commissioned in one county.) The bill would no longer require filling out the line on the form indicating where the notarial act was being performed if the notarial act was being performed in the home county.
** The record would also have to contain the date the notarial act was performed.
** Information on the record currently must be printed, typed, stamped, or otherwise imprinted mechanically or electronically "clearly and legibly." The bill, instead, would require information to be "sufficiently clear and legible to be read" by the Secretary of State.
** Currently, the act allows a court to invalidate any document not notarized in compliance with [the] act. The bill would, instead, say that the court could invalidate any notorial act not performed in compliance with the act.
** Section 29 of the act would be repealed. That section allows the use of a plain English notary form.
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