Lost or stolen journals.
Notary journal entry request.
Step by step illustrated instructions make it easy to record your acts and meets recordkeeping requirments for every state with room for 488 journal entries.
A journal entry is required for all notarial acts including those not involving a signature on a record.
California allows any member of the public to request a copy of a journal entry but the request must be in writing and include specific details about the notarization requested.
7 a certified peace officer as defined in section 16 2 5 102 acting in the course of an official investigation may inspect a notary public s journal without restriction.
A california notary who is an employee may be asked to provide copies of journal entries about work related notarizations by an employer provided the copying is done.
A notary public shall surrender the notary s journal to the secretary of state upon receiving a written request.
The requestor may be shown only the entry or entries defined in the request.
A request to inspect all pages of a notary s journal in massachusetts can be honored only for law enforcement agencies in the event of a court ordered subpoena or when the governor s office orders the notary to surrender the journal.
The first page of the notary journal s must be filled out with the notary name commission number expiration date and address for identification and indexing purposes.
If a notary s journal is lost or stolen the notary must notify the secretary of state of that fact.
A notary may maintain journal in either a tangible medium or an electronic format.
Any member of the public may request a copy of an entry in a california notary s journal but the request must be in writing and include the name of the parties the type of document and the month and year it was notarized gc 8206 c.
I have a customer wanting a copy of my notary journal from 2011.
This means a notary must record copy certifications oral oaths and affirmations and depositions for example in the notary s journal.
A notary public must respond within 15 business days after the receipt of a writ.
The specific designs of this type of journal will vary but all will contain space for the necessary information.
In accordance with gc section 26850 a 5 search fee will be collected for all notary journal search requests for each name.
Notary journal search requests.
However a california notary must provide a photocopy of a journal entry to anyone making a written request that includes the name of the parties involved in the notarization the type of document and the month and year the notarization took place government code 8206 c.
