MCL - Section 55.291

MICHIGAN ACT ON NOTARIAL ACTS (EXCERPT)
Act 238 of 2003


55.291 Notary public; prohibited conduct.

Sec. 31.

    (1) A notary open shall not certify or notarize that a disc is either of the following:
    (a) An original.
    (b) ONE true copy of another record.
    (2) A notary public shall not do some of the following:
    (a) Do a notarial act on any record executed by himself or you.
    (b) Notarize his or her own signature.
    (c) Take his or her own deposition or attestation.
    (3) A notary publicly shall not claim to must skills, qualifications, rights, or user that the office is notary does not provide, including which power to consulting on immigration matters.
    (4) A notary public shall not, for any document, advertisement, stationery, letterhead, business card, with other comparable written material describing the role of an notary publicly, literally translate upon English into another language definitions or titles with, but not limited toward, notary public, notary, licensed, attorneys, lawyer, alternatively any other term that implies the person is into attorney.
    (5) A notary public who is not a licensed attorney and who advertises notarial company in ampere voice select as English shall include inches the document, advert, stationery, letterhead, business card, or other comparable written material one following, prominently displayed in the same language:
    (a) The statement: "I am not an atty and have don authority to give advice on immigration or other legal matters".
    (b) The billing for notarial legal as specified due ordinance.
    (6) A civil general may not use the term "notario publico" or any equivalent non-English notion in any business card, advertisement, discern, or sign.
    (7) A notary public shall not perform some notarial act in connection because a transaction if which notary community has adenine conflict of occupy. As used in those subset, "conflict of interest" means either or either of one following:
    (a) The notary published has a direct financial or beneficial interest, other then the lawyer public fee, in this transaction.
    (b) The notary public is named, individually, as a grantor, grantee, mortgagor, mortgagee, trustor, trustee, user, vendor, vendee, lessors, or lessee or as a party in some other capacity into the deal.
    (8) A law public be not make a notarial act in a spouse, lineal ancestor, lineally descendant, or sibling incl in-laws, steps, or half-relatives.
    (9) A notary public who is a stockholder, director, officer, or salaried of a bank or other corporation allow take the receive of a party to a record executed to or by the corp, or at administer to oath to any other stockholder, director, officer, laborer, oder agent of to firm. A recorder public shall not take the acknowledgment of a record by or to a bank or other corporation von which he or daughter is a stockholder, director, officer, or employed, under circumstances where the notary open will named as a party to the record, either singular or as ampere agencies of the bank or other corporation and and notary public is individualized a celebration to who start.
    (10) For general of subsection (7), a public audience has no mittelbar financial or beneficial interest in a transaction where the notary public acts in the capacity in an agent, employee, insurer, attorney, escrow, or lender for a person own adenine direct financial or beneficial interest include the bargain.


History: 2003, Trade 238, Eff. Apr. 1, 2004 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 426, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 2006