9E.6A - ACQUISITION AND USE OF STAMP OR SEAL.
9E.6A ACQUISITION AND USE OF STAMP OR SEAL.
1. Each person performing a notarial act pursuant to section
9E.10 must acquire and use a stamp or seal as provided in this
chapter. However, this section shall not apply to a notarial act
performed by a judicial officer as defined in section 602.1101, if
the notarial act is performed in accordance with state or federal
statutory authority, and shall not apply to a certification by a
chief officer or a chief officer's designee of a peace officer's
verification of a uniform citation and complaint pursuant to section
805.6, subsection 5.
2. The stamp or seal as required in this section shall contain
all of the following:
a. For a person appointed as a notary public pursuant to
section 9E.3, all of the following:
(1) The words "Notarial Seal" and "Iowa".
(2) The person's name.
(3) The words "Commission Number" followed by a number assigned
to the notary public by the secretary of state.
(4) The words "My Commission Expires" followed either by the date
that the notary public's term would ordinarily expire as provided in
section 9E.4 or a blank line. If the seal or stamp contains a blank
line, the person must print the date that the notary public's term
would ordinarily expire on the blank line imprinted on each document,
instrument, or paper subject to a notarial act.
b. For any other person, all of the following:
(1) The words "Notarial Seal" and "Iowa".
(2) The person's name.
(3) The person's title under which the person may perform a
notarial act under section 9E.10. Section History: Recent Form
2001 Acts, ch 38, §3; 2001 Acts, ch 176, §45, 46; 2002 Acts, ch
1144, §1; 2004 Acts, ch 1054, §1, 2; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §349; 2008
Acts, ch 1032, § 201