47.1-16 - Notarizations to show date of act, official signature and seal, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 47.1-16. Notarizations to show date of act, official signature and seal,etc.

A. Every notarization shall include the date upon which the notarial act wasperformed, and the county or city and state in which it was performed.

B. A notarial act shall be evidenced by a notarial certificate or electronicnotarial certificate signed by a notary in a manner that attributes suchsignature to the notary public identified on the commission.

C. Upon every writing which is the subject of a notarial act, the notaryshall, after his certificate, state the date of the expiration of hiscommission in substantially the following form:

"My commission expires the . . . . day of . . . . . ., . . . .."

Near the notary's official signature on the notarial certificate of a paperdocument, the notary shall affix a sharp, legible, permanent, andphotographically reproducible image of the official seal, or, to anelectronic document, the notary shall attach an official electronic seal.

D. The notary shall attach the official electronic signature and seal to theelectronic notarial certificate of an electronic document in a manner that iscapable of independent verification and renders any subsequent changes ormodifications to the electronic document evident.

E. A notary's electronic signature and seal shall conform to the standardsfor electronic notarization developed in accordance with § 47.1-6.1.

(Code 1950, § 55-116; 1980, c. 580; 2007, cc. 269, 590; 2008, cc. 117, 814;2009, c. 160.)