Alaska Statutes 44.50.062 – Prohibited acts

A notary public may not

(1) violate state or federal law in the performance of acts authorized by this chapter;

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 44.50.062

acknowledgment: means a declaration by an individual before a notarial officer that the individual has signed a record for the purpose stated in the record and, if the record is signed in a representative capacity, that the individual signed the record with proper authority and signed it as the act of the individual or entity identified in the record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
notarial act: means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that is identified as a notarial act under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
notary public: means a person commissioned to perform notarial acts under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
oath: includes affirmation or declaration. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
remotely located individual: means an individual who is not in the physical presence of a notary public who performs a notarial act under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to
(A) execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
signature: means a tangible symbol or an electronic signature that evidences the signing of a record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060

(2) influence a person to enter into or avoid a transaction involving a notarial act by the notary public;

(3) affix the notary public’s signature or seal on a notarial certificate that is incomplete;

(4) charge a fee for a notarial act unless a fee schedule has been provided to the signer before the performance of the notarial act;

(5) affix the notary public’s official seal to a document unless the person who is to sign the document

(A) except as provided by Alaska Stat. § 44.50.075, appears and signs the document before the notary public or, for an acknowledgment, appears and indicates to the notary public that the person voluntarily affixed the person’s signature on the document for the purposes stated within the document;

(B) gives an oath or affirmation if required under law or if the notarial certificate states that the document was signed under oath or affirmation;

(C) in the case of a notarial act performed in the physical presence of the notary public, is personally known to the notary public, produces government-issued identification containing the photograph and signature of the person signing, or produces

(i) government-issued identification containing the signature of the person signing, but without a photograph; and

(ii) another valid identification containing the photograph and signature of the person signing; and

(D) in the case of a notarial act performed for a remotely located individual, satisfies the requirements of Alaska Stat. § 44.50.075;

(6) perform a notarial act if the notary public

(A) is a signer of or named in the document that is to be notarized; or

(B) will receive directly from a transaction connected with the notarial act a commission, fee, advantage, right, title, interest, cash, property, or other consideration exceeding in value the normal fee charged by the notary for the notarial act.

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