California Government Code

§ 8205

GOV § 8205 Effective Jan 1, 2017Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)It is the duty of a notary public, when requested:

(1)To demand acceptance and payment of foreign and inland bills of exchange, or promissory notes, to protest them for nonacceptance and nonpayment, and, with regard only to the nonacceptance or nonpayment of bills and notes, to exercise any other powers and duties that by the law of nations and according to commercial usages, or by the laws of any other state, government, or country, may be performed by a notary. This paragraph applies only to a notary public employed by a financial institution, during the course and scope of the notary’s employment with the financial institution.

(2)To take the acknowledgment or proof of advance health care directives, powers of attorney, mortgages, deeds, grants, transfers, and other instruments of writing executed by any person, and to give a certificate of that proof or acknowledgment, endorsed on or attached to the instrument. The certificate shall be signed by the notary public in the notary public’s own handwriting. A notary public may not accept any acknowledgment or proof of any instrument that is incomplete.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 366, Sec. 4. (SB 974) Effective January 1, 2017.