Commission + Eligibility
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Notarial Acts
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Identity + Disqualification
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Seal, Records + Fees
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Online + Electronic Notary
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Quick Facts
- Exam
- 20 questions
- Pass
- 85% (17 of 20)
- Attempts
- 3, then ineligible
- Score valid
- 90 days
- Delivery
- Online via ClassMarker
- Bond
- $15,000 surety
- Term
- 4 years
- Filing fee
- $30
- Minimum age
- 19 years
- Administrator
- Nebraska Secretary of State
- Governing law
- Neb. Rev. Stat. Chapter 64
- Journal
- Not required in person
Nebraska Number Line
19 age, 20 questions, 85%, 4 years
19: minimum age20: exam questions85%: passing score4: year term$30: filing fee
Renew vs Reapply
Renew
- Only 30 days prior
- New bond and seal
- No new exam
Reapply
- Any day after expiring
- Retake the exam
- New bond and seal
Before expiry vs after
Commission Problem Picker
- Expires in 20 days→Renew now(Bond, fee, seal)
- Expired yesterday→Apply as new(Exam again)
- Moved within Nebraska→Notify within 45 days
- Moved out of Nebraska→Term terminates
- Legal name changed→Old name until expiration
- Seal and certificate lost→Order $10 replacement
- Failed exam three times→No longer eligible
Eligibility Gates
- Minimum age
- 19 years old64-101
- Citizenship
- US citizen or qualified alien
- Residency
- Nebraska resident
- Border option
- Regular Nebraska work or business
- Felony
- Bars unless fully pardoned
- Fraud or dishonesty
- Bars for five years
- Exam
- Passed before commissioning
- Comprehension
- Must understand the certificate64-105.01
No Late Renewal
Thirty days before, or start over
Window: 30 days priorLate: full new applicationLate: new exam required
Bond vs E&O Coverage
Surety bond
- Mandatory $15,000
- Protects the public
- Filed with SOS
E&O policy
- Completely optional
- Protects the notary
- No proof required
Public protection vs yours
Application Steps
- Step 1
- Pass the notary exam
- Step 2
- Buy $15,000 surety bond
- Step 3
- File online application
- Step 4
- Download commission certificate
- Step 5
- Order ink stamp seal
- Filing fee
- $30, card or eCheck
- Portal
- business.nebraska.gov
- Paper filings
- Ended December 31, 2023
- Uploads
- Exam certificate and bond
Exam Format
- Questions
- 20 total
- Passing score
- 85%
- Misses allowed
- 3 maximum
- Attempts
- Three, then permanently ineligible
- Platform
- ClassMarker, taken online
- Assistance
- None from other people
- Result
- Digital examination certificate
- Certificate life
- 90 days from exam
- Content
- Laws, procedures, ethics64-101.01
- Separate exam fee
- None charged
Bond + Oath
- Amount
- $15,00064-102
- Surety
- Incorporated surety company
- Filed with
- Secretary of State
- Bond address
- Home, not business
- Signatures
- Twice on the bond
- First signature
- As bond principal
- Second signature
- Before another notary
- Oath endorsed
- Support both Constitutions
- Oath duty
- Faithfully, impartially discharge duties
- Where to buy
- Insurance agent or provider
- E&O policy
- Optional, no proof needed
Renewal + Record Changes
- Term length
- 4 years
- Renewal window
- 30 days before expiration64-104
- Renewal exam
- Not required
- Renewal needs
- New bond, fee, seal
- One day late
- Full new application required
- Address change
- Notify within 45 days64-105.04
- Notice contents
- Name, expiration, new address
- Leaving Nebraska
- Terminates the term64-112
- Legal name change
- Old name until expiration
- Lost certificate
- $10 replacement online
Acknowledgment vs Jurat
Acknowledgment
- Confirms prior execution
- Signature may predate
- No oath taken
Jurat
- Signs in your presence
- Swears contents true
- Oath required
Confirm signing vs swear truth
Act Picker
- Signer confirms earlier signing→Acknowledgment(No new signature)
- Signer must swear truth→Jurat(Signs in presence)
- Only a promise needed→Oath or affirmation
- Third party proves signature→Proof of execution
- Testimony under oath→Deposition
- Signer uses a mark→Two witnesses first(64-105.02)
- Signer physically cannot sign→Notary signs, directed
- Certified copy requested→Send to issuing agency(Not in 64-107)
Notary vs Attorney Role
Notary may
- Verify signer identity
- Administer oaths
- Complete supplied certificate
Notary may not
- Choose the certificate
- Draft or explain documents
- Advise on legality
Witness identity, never advise
Certificate Wording
- Ack must state
- Appeared and acknowledged execution64-203
- Ack identity clause
- Known or satisfactory evidence
- Short forms
- 64-206 deemed sufficient
- Individual form
- Acknowledged before me, date, name
- Corporation form
- Officer on behalf of corporation
- Partnership form
- Partner on behalf of partnership
- Attorney in fact
- Acting for named principal
- Other wording
- Still valid, not exclusive
- No clause supplied
- Type on attached sheet
- Same page
- Preferred, not required
Signing Situations
- Already signed
- Use acknowledgment instead
- Re-sign option
- Sign above, cross original
- Signature by mark
- Two unaffected witnesses required64-105.02
- Witness placement
- Sign beside the mark
- Cannot sign
- Notary signs when directed
- Notary note
- Write circumstance on document
- Blank spaces
- Refuse until filled or initialed
- Minor signer
- Allowed, but ID required
- Official capacity
- No proof required
- Reading document
- Not required, no advice
Barred Relatives SADS
Spouse, Ancestor, Descendant, Sibling
S: spouseA: ancestorD: descendantS: siblingPlus in-law, step, half
Personally Known vs Evidence
Personally known
- Repeated interactions
- No ID needed
- Uncertainty dispelled
Satisfactory evidence
- Current government ID
- Photo, signature, description
- Passport exception applies
Relationship vs document
ID Picker
- Current driver license shown→Satisfactory evidence
- Passport shown→Accept without description
- ID lacks a signature→Reject, find another
- Long personal relationship→Personally known
- One witness knows both→One credible witness
- Two witnesses with ID→Two credible witnesses
- Witness benefits from document→Disqualified witness
- Remote signer online→Analysis plus identity proofing(64-411)
Satisfactory Evidence
- Base rule
- Current government agency document64-105
- Must bear
- Photo, signature, physical description
- Passport
- Description not needed
- Personally known
- Interactions dispel reasonable uncertainty
- One credible witness
- Knows notary and signer
- Two credible witnesses
- Each shows government ID
- Witness limit
- Unaffected by the document
- Presence
- Principal present during act
- Only exception
- Online notarial acts
ID Shows PSP
Photo, Signature, Physical description
P: face photoS: signatureP: physical descriptionPassport: description waived
Disqualifiers
- Spouse
- Disqualified64-105.01
- Ancestor
- Parent or grandparent
- Descendant
- Child or grandchild
- Sibling
- Brother or sister
- In-law, step, half
- Same bar applies
- Aunt, uncle, cousin
- Not barred by relationship
- Financial interest
- Beyond ordinary notarial fee
- Named party
- Cannot notarize transaction
- Cannot understand certificate
- Disqualified from acting
- Own signature
- Never notarize it
Fee Split
Seal work $5, oath work $2
$5: acknowledgment$5: certificate and seal$2: affidavit with seal$2: oath or affirmation$25: online act
Fee Picker
- Took an acknowledgment→$5 maximum
- Certificate and seal→$5 maximum
- Affidavit with seal→$2 maximum
- Administered an oath→$2 maximum
- Protested an instrument→$1 maximum
- Performed online act→$25 maximum
- Traveled to the signer→Mileage per 81-1176
- Employer paid commission fees→Charge nothing
Seal Elements
- Type
- Ink stamp seal64-210
- Line 1
- State of Nebraska
- Line 2
- General Notary or General Notarial
- Line 3
- Name as commissioned
- Line 4
- Commission expiration date
- When ordered
- After certificate is printed
- Placement
- Near your signature
- Legibility
- Press firmly, avoid text
- Every renewal
- New stamp, new expiration
- Authentication
- Seal all official acts
Fee Caps (33-133)
- Acknowledgment
- $5
- Certificate and seal
- $5
- Affidavit with seal
- $2
- Oath or affirmation
- $2
- Protest
- $1
- Recording protest
- $2
- Notice of protest
- $2
- Mileage
- Rate in section 81-1176
- Online notarial act
- $25 maximum64-412
- Government employee
- No fee if employer-paid
- Nature of caps
- Ceilings, may charge less
Journal + Venue Rules
- In-person journal
- Not required by law
- SOS position
- Highly recommends keeping one
- Journal template
- Free from Secretary of State
- Online record
- Mandatory, ten-year retention64-409
- Venue line
- Where notarization actually happened
- Lincoln example
- Nebraska, Lancaster County
- Wrong county
- Cross out, write correct
- Correction fluid
- Never on notarized documents
Four Online Acts
Acknowledge, Jurat, Verify, Oath
AcknowledgmentsJuratsVerifications or proofsOaths or affirmations
Traditional vs Online Notary
Traditional
- Physical presence required
- Journal optional
- $5 and $2 caps
Online
- Audio-video appearance
- Record kept ten years
- $25 per act
Same room vs technology
RON Registration
- Prerequisite
- Valid Nebraska notary commission64-403
- Training
- Secretary of State course
- Course topics
- Law, procedure, technology, ethics
- RON exam
- 20 questions, 85% pass
- RON attempts
- Three, then ineligible
- RON filing fee
- $50
- Statutory cap
- $100 under 64-405
- Registration term
- Matches commission term
- Approval document
- Letter, not certificate
- Seal setup
- Through approved solution provider
- RON seal extra
- Identifying number required
Online vs Electronic Notary
Online notary
- Signer appears remotely
- $50 filing fee
- Seal shows identifying number
Electronic notary
- Signer physically present
- $100 filing fee
- No identifying number
Remote vs same room
RON Limits
- Allowed acts
- Acknowledgments, jurats, verifications, oaths64-408
- Fee cap
- $25 per online act
- Signer location
- Need not be Nebraska
- Wills and codicils
- Not satisfied online64-418
- Testamentary trusts
- Not satisfied online
- UCC
- Only Articles 2, 2A
- Certificate note
- State it was online
- Technology duty
- Secure against interception
- Stolen seal
- Tell police and SOS64-410
- Lost seal
- Tell Secretary of State
Common Traps
Age 19, not 18
Nebraska requires 19 ≠ Most states require 18
Acknowledgment vs jurat
Acknowledgment confirms execution ≠ Jurat swears contents true
Journal rules split
In-person journal optional ≠ Online record mandatory
Bond vs E&O
Bond protects the public ≠ E&O protects the notary
Fee tiers differ
Acknowledgment caps at $5 ≠ Oath caps at $2
Renewal is not automatic
Only 30 days prior ≠ One day late restarts
Move vs address change
In-state move: 45 days ≠ Out-of-state move ends term
Powers omit copy certification
64-107 lists no copies ≠ Issuing agency certifies copies
Seal is a stamp
Statute requires ink stamp ≠ Embosser does not substitute
Online fee is separate
RON registration costs $50 ≠ Electronic notary costs $100
Last Minute
- 1.Age 19; term 4 years
- 2.Exam: 20 questions, 85% pass
- 3.Three attempts, then permanently ineligible
- 4.Exam certificate valid 90 days
- 5.Bond $15,000; filing fee $30
- 6.Sign the bond twice
- 7.Seal: Nebraska, General Notary, name, expiry
- 8.Acknowledgment $5; oath $2; online $25
- 9.Journal optional; online record required
- 10.Barred: spouse, ancestor, descendant, sibling
- 11.ID needs photo, signature, description
- 12.Renew only 30 days before
- 13.Out-of-state move ends commission
- 14.Address change: notify within 45 days
- 15.Online acts: four types only
- 16.Removal disqualifies you forever
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