PA Notary Exam 2024/2025
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1) The 6 Notary Acts are: - ANSWER ✔ 1. Acknowledgement
2. Verification on Oath or Affirmation
3. Signature witnessing
4. Copy of deposition certification
5. Oath or affirmation
6. Protest
2) Acknowledgement - ANSWER ✔ An acknowledgement is a statement attached to a
document declaring that the person who signed the instrument is the person mentioned
therein and that the person did sign the document
3) Attest - ANSWER ✔ Attest means to bear witness to. To declare a document to be
true or genuine is to attest to its authenticity. When a witness signs a legal document,
such as a will, at the request of the maker, it's an act of attestation
4) Certifying - ANSWER ✔ To verify; endorse
5) Jurat - ANSWER ✔ The jurat is the clause written at the foot of an affidavit that
states when, where, and before whom an affidavit was sworn. It is a certificate of proof
or acknowledgement
6) Oath - ANSWER ✔ Any form of attestation or pledge by which a person signifies that
he or she is bound in conscience and out of a sense of responsibility to a Supreme
Being to the truthfulness for some statement. Willfully swearing to untrue statements
constitutes perjury
7) Verifying - ANSWER ✔ Establish the truth, accuracy or reality of
8) Power to administer oaths and affirmations - ANSWER ✔ Notaries shall have power
to administer oaths and affirmations, according to law, in all matters belonging or
incident to the exercise of their notarial office. Any person who shall be convicted of
having willfully and knowingly made or taken a false oath or affirmation before any
,notary in any matters with their official duties shall be guilty of perjury and shall be
subject to the penalties in such case made and provided
9) Power to take acknowledgement of instruments of writing relating to commerce or
navigation and to make declarations - ANSWER ✔ Notaries shall have the power to
receive the proof of acknowledgement of all instruments of writing relating to commerce
or navigation, such as bills of sales, bottomries, mortgages, and hypothecations of ships
or vessels, charter parties or affreightment, letters of attorney and such other writings as
have been usually proved or acknowledged before notaries within this commonwealth,
and also to make declarations and testify the truth thereof, under their seals of office,
concerning all matters by them done in virtue of their respective office
10) Register, copies or records - ANSWER ✔ A. Every notary public shall keep an
accurate register of all official acts by him/her done by virtue of his/her office, and shall,
when thereunto required, give a certified copy of any record in his/her office to any
person applying for same. Said register shall contain the date of the act, the character
of the act, the date and parties to the instrument, and the amount of fee collected for the
service.
B. The register and other public papers of such notary shall not in any case be liable to
be seized, attached or taken in execution for debt or for any demand whatsoever
Power to take depositions, affidavits, and acknowledgement of writings relative to lands
- ANSWER ✔ Notaries shall have power to take depositions and affidavits to take and
receive the acknowledgement or proof of all deeds, conveyances, mortgages, or other
instruments or writing touching or concerning any lands, tenements, or hereditaments,
situate, lying and being in any part of this state
Limitation on powers, fees - ANSWER ✔ A. No district justice, holding at the same time
the office of notary public, shall have jurisdiction in cases arising on papers or
documents containing acts by him done in the office of notary public.
B. No notary public may act as such in any transaction in which he is a party directly or
pecuniarily interested. For the purpose of this section, none of the following shall
constitute a direct or pecuniary interest.
1. Being a shareholder in a publicly traded company that is a party to do the notarized
transaction
2. Being an officer, director or employee of a company that is a party to the notarized
transaction, unless the director, officer or employee personally benefits from the
transaction other than provided in clause.
3. receiving a fee that is not contingent upon the completion of the notarized
transaction.
,11) . Fees of the Notaries Public - ANSWER ✔ The fees of notaries public shall be
fixed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth with the approval of the Attorney General
12) Fee for executing affidavits (regardless of number of signatures) - ANSWER ✔ $5
13) Fee for executing acknowledgements - ANSWER ✔ $5
14) Fee for executing acknowledgements, each additional name - ANSWER ✔ $2
15) Fee for executing certificates (per certified copy) - ANSWER ✔ $5
16) Administering oaths (per individual taking an oath) - ANSWER ✔ $5
17) Fee for taking depositions (per page) - ANSWER ✔ $3
18) Fee for executing verifications - ANSWER ✔ $5
19) Fee for making protests (per page) - ANSWER ✔ $3
20) New fee - ANSWER ✔ A notary public shall not charge, attempt to charge or
receive a notary public fee that is in excess of the fees fixed by the Secretary of the
Commonwealth
21) Prohibited Acts 1 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not use a name or initial in
signing certificates other than that by which the notary public is commissioned. A notary
public may not notarize his/her own signature
22) Prohibited Acts 2 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not affix his or her signature to
a blank form of affidavit or certificate of acknowledgement and deliver that form to
another person with the intent that it be used as an affidavit or acknowledgement
23) Prohibited Acts 3 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not take the acknowledgement
of or administer an oath to a person whom the notary public actually knows to have
been adjudicated mentally incapacitated by a court of competent jurisdiction, where the
acknowledgement or oath necessitates the exercise of a right that has been removed or
and where the person has not been restored to capacity as a matter of record
24) Prohibited Acts 4 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not notarize a signature on a
document if it appears that the person is mentally incapable of understanding the nature
and effect of the document at the time of notarization
, 25) Prohibited Acts 5 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not take the acknowledgement
of a person who does not speak or understand English, unless the nature and effect of
the instrument to be notarized is translated into a language which the person does
understand
26) Prohibited Acts 6 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not change anything in a
written instrument after it's been signed by anyone
27) Prohibited Acts 7 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not amend a notarial certificate
after the notarization is complete
28) Prohibited Acts 8 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not notarize a signature on a
document if the person whose signature is being notarized is not in the presence of the
notary public at the time the signature is notarized
29) Prohibited Acts 9 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not notarize a signature of a
document if the document is incomplete or blank. However, an endorsement or
assignment in blank of a negotiable or nonnegotiable note and the assignment in blank
of any instrument given as security for such note is not deemed incomplete
30 Prohibited Acts 10 - ANSWER ✔ A notary public may not notarize a signature on a
document if the notary public has a direct pecuniary interest in or is a party to the
underlying transaction; however, a notary public who is an employee may notarize a
signature for his or her employer, and this employment does not constitute a direct or
pecuniary interest in the transaction nor make the notary a party to the transaction
under this subsection as long as he or she does not receive a benefit other than his or
her salary and the fee for services as a notary public authorized by law. For purposes of
this section, a notary public who is an attorney does not have a direct or pecuniary
interest in and is not a party to the underlying transaction evidenced by a notarized
document if he or she notarizes a signature on that document for a client for whom he
or she serves as an attorney of record and he or she has no interest in the document
other than the fee paid to him or her for legal services and the fee authorized by law for
services as a notary public.
31) Other Prohibited Acts 1 - ANSWER ✔ Do not notarize a photograph. Do not
notarize a copy of a birth certificate, or any other vital record or public record
32) Other Prohibited Acts 2 - ANSWER ✔ Do not certify a translation of a document
from one language to another
33) Other Prohibited Acts 3 - ANSWER ✔ Do not provide signature guarantees. This
duty is usually performed by officials in the banking and securities industry
