2019 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXII - Courts
Chapter 486 - Commissioners of Deeds and Notaries Public
Section 486.340 Executing witness defined — form of affidavit of executing witness.
Effective 28 Aug 2004
486.340. Executing witness defined — form of affidavit of executing witness. — 1. As used in this section, the words "executing witness" means an individual who acts in the place of a notary.
2. An executing witness may not be related by blood or marriage or have a disqualifying interest as defined in section 486.255.
3. The affidavit of executing witness for acknowledgment by an individual who does not appear before a notary shall be in type not smaller than eight-point and in substantially the following form:
I, ______ (name of executing witness), do solemnly affirm under the penalty of perjury, that ______ (name of person who does not appear before a notary), personally known to me, has executed the within ______ (type of document) in my presence, and has acknowledged to me that ______ (he/she) executed the same for the purposes therein stated and requested that I sign my name on the within document as an executing witness.
______ (signature of executing witness)
Subscribed and affirmed before me this ______ day of ______, 20______
______ (official signature and official seal of notary)
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(L. 1977 H.B. 513 § 30, A.L. 2004 H.B. 1193)
