Title XLII, Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments

Such commissioner of deeds may, both within and without this state, administer oaths, take depositions and affidavits to be used in this state and notify parties of the time and place thereof, and take the acknowledgment of deeds or instruments to be used or recorded in this stat…

Any commissioner for any other state who is authorized to take depositions, administer oaths and affirmations and take the acknowledgment of deeds within this state, to be used in such other state, and any commissioner appointed by the supreme or superior court or any justice the…

I. A person shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 if such person: (a) When applying for a commission as a notary public, negligently or recklessly makes a material false representation on the application form; (b) Holding a commission as a notary public or just…

I. The secretary of state, with the advice and approval of the attorney general, shall prepare or cause to be prepared an up-to-date manual on the privileges, duties, and responsibilities of notaries public and justices of the peace in New Hampshire. The manual shall be written i…

Any person applying to be a notary public shall be a resident of this state or be a resident of an abutting state who is regularly employed or carries on a trade, business, or practice in this state at the time of applying. The applicant shall sign a written statement under oath …

I. Any person applying to be a justice of the peace shall indicate on the application whether he or she has been a registered voter in this state for at least 3 years immediately preceding the date of application. The applicant must sign a written statement under oath stating whe…

It shall be lawful for any notary public or any other officer authorized to administer an oath or take an acknowledgment or proof of an instrument or make protest, who is a stockholder, director, officer or employee of a bank or other corporation, to take the acknowledgment of an…

Every justice of the peace shall have the power to administer oaths, perform marriage ceremonies, acknowledge instruments, and any other power prescribed by law. A justice of the peace signing an acknowledgment or jurat on any document or instrument shall type, print, or stamp th…

I. Every notary public, in addition to the usual powers of the office, shall have the same powers as a justice of the peace in relation to depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments and the administering of oaths. II. All notarial acts performed by a notary…

The protest of a bill of exchange, note, or order, duly certified by a notary public, shall be evidence of the facts stated in the protest and of the notice given to the drawer or endorsers.

I. "Notarial act" means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that a notarial officer is authorized to perform under the law of this state, and includes taking an acknowledgment, administering an oath or affirmation, taking a verification upon…

This chapter shall be so interpreted to make uniform the law among those states enacting it.

This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Law on Notarial Acts.

I. In taking an acknowledgment, the notarial officer must determine, either from personal knowledge or from satisfactory evidence, that the individual appearing before the officer and making the acknowledgment has the identity claimed and that the signature on the instrument is t…

If a notarial act relates to a statement made in or a signature executed on a record, the individual making the statement or executing the signature shall appear personally before the notarial officer.

I. A notarial officer has personal knowledge of the identity of an individual appearing before the officer if the individual is personally known to the officer through dealings sufficient to provide reasonable certainty that the individual has the identity claimed. II. A notarial…

I. A notarial act may be performed within this state by the following persons: (a) A notary public of this state; (b) A judge, marital master, clerk, deputy clerk, register of probate, or deputy register of probate of any court of this state; or (c) A justice of the peace of this…

I. A notarial act has the same effect under the law of this state as if performed by a notarial officer of this state, if performed in another state, commonwealth, territory, district, or possession of the United States by any of the following persons: (a) A notary public of that…

I. A notarial act has the same effect under the law of this state as if performed by a notarial officer of this state if performed anywhere by any of the following persons under authority granted by the law of the United States: (a) A judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of a court; (b)…

I. A notarial act has the same effect under the law of this state as if performed by a notarial officer of this state if performed within the jurisdiction of and under authority of a foreign nation or its constituent units or a multi-national or international organization by any …

I. In this section: (a) "Communication technology" means an electronic device or process that: (1) Allows a notary public and a remotely located individual to communicate with each other simultaneously by sight and sound; and (2) When necessary and consistent with other applicabl…

I. A notarial act must be evidenced by a certificate signed and dated by a notarial officer. The certificate must include identification of the jurisdiction in which the notarial act is performed and the title of the office of the notarial officer and may include the official sta…

The following short form certificates of notarial acts are sufficient for the purposes indicated, if completed with the information required by RSA 456-B:7, I: I. For an acknowledgment in an individual capacity: State of _______________________ (County) of ____________________ Th…

I. The electronic or rubber official stamp of a notary public shall: (a) Include the information required by RSA 455:3; and (b) Be capable of being copied together with the record to which it is affixed or attached or with which it is logically associated. II. A notary public is …

I. A notary public may select one or more tamper-evident technologies to perform notarial acts with respect to electronic records. A person may not require a notary public to perform a notarial act with respect to an electronic record with a technology that the notary public has …

I. A notary public shall maintain a journal in which the notary public chronicles all notarial acts the notary public performs with respect to a remotely located individual under RSA 456-B:6-a. The notary public shall retain the journal for 10 years after the performance of the l…

The failure of a notarial officer to perform a duty or meet a requirement specified in this chapter or RSA 455 does not invalidate a notarial act performed by the notarial officer. The validity of a notarial act under this chapter or RSA 455 does not prevent an aggrieved person f…

This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of …

This chapter applies to notarial acts performed on or after its effective date.