2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 423 NOTARIES PUBLIC AND COMMISSIONERS OF FOREIGN DEEDS 423.020 Notary may act in any county -- Certification of notary's authority.
KY Rev Stat § 423.020 (1996 through Reg Sess) What's This?
423.020 Notary may act in any county -- Certification of notary's authority.
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A notary public may exercise all the functions of his office in any county of the
state, by filing in the county clerk's office in such county his written signature and a
certificate of the county clerk of the county for which he was appointed, setting
forth the fact of his appointment and qualification as a notary public, and paying a
fee pursuant to KRS 64.012 to the county clerk.
The county clerk of a county in whose office any notary public has so filed his
signature and certificate shall, when requested, subjoin to any certificate of proof or
acknowledgment signed by the notary a certificate under his hand and seal, stating
that such notary public has filed a certificate of his appointment and qualifications
with his written signature in his office, and was at the time of taking such proof or
acknowledgment duly authorized to take the same; that he is well acquainted with
the handwriting of the notary public and believes that the signature to such proof or
acknowledgment is genuine.
Effective: January 1, 2007
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 255, sec. 34, effective January 1, 2007. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88, secs. 85 and 93, effective July 1, 1992. -- Amended
1946 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3721a.
Note: Amendment of this section by 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88, secs. 85 and 93 became
effective July 1, 1992, in compliance with 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 30.
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