Posted by Hanna Browning on 4/1/13 6:34pm
Msg #464028

Notary Journal

I am getting mixed answers on " will the Not Rot notary journal be ok for use in California?" The Ca law says to sign for every notarized doc, will the wonderful layout of this journal pass muster with our Sec of State??? It is hard on clients to sign for every action on some of these loans (with so many jurats and ack's).

Reply by Marian_in_CA on 4/1/13 7:19pm
Msg #464035

You can't ask if a certain journal will or will not be "okay" --- because they won't tell you that.

This is what they tell us:

"The California Secretary of State does not endorse or recommend any particular commercially printed notarial journal. Any journal that includes space for recording all the required details is acceptable. Many commercially printed notarial journals have space for recording other information not required by California law, such as the date of the document, the address of the signer and transaction notes."

You can use any journal you want...even a blank notebook of you want, so long as you record the legally required information for each notarial act.

I suggest you review pages 16, 27-29 of the sample workbook:

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/notary/forms/notary-education-sample-workbook-2013.pdf

Reply by Belinda/CA on 4/1/13 7:37pm
Msg #464037

Your journal does not have to necessarily be CA compliant.
The information you record in a journal must be CA compliant.

My journal has the condensed version section where you can check a bunch of documents at once for one line and have them sign once. However, I write in that sections what I am notarizing or check one box per line.

Do the signers mind signing ever line? Rarely. Be understanding and sympathetic and they just sign away.

Reply by Mung/CA on 4/2/13 2:07am
Msg #464051

Simple answer to ur question Hanna...Yes. I do. n/m

Reply by gaby on 4/3/13 12:25am
Msg #464248

I actually contacted SOS directly several years ago inquiring about this journal... After our 3 minute conversation I came to the conclusion...it's a nice journal because it may save you a lot of writing time...but you still have to do 1 line per document/1 signature per document being notarized. :/