
Jurat notarizations (those involving oaths) must be signed in the presence of the notary. Carefully compare the signature on the document against the signatures on the ID card and your journal.

If a notarized document is lost or altered, or if certain facts about the transaction are later challenged, the journal becomes valuable evidence.

Journal entries should be sequentially numbered and any journal or recording system where the pages are not physically bound together (or logically bound in the case of electronic notary journals) in a manner that prevents them from being inserted or removed from the journal by the notary should be avoided. Upon resignation from, or revocation or suspension of, a notary public’s commission, the notary public shall retain the notary public’s journal for 1o years after the performance of the last notarial act chronicled in the journal and inform the lieutenant governor where the journal is located. If a notary public’s journal is lost or stolen, the notary public shall promptly notify the lieutenant governor upon discovering that the journal is lost or stolen. If identity of the individual is based on satisfactory evidence, a brief description of the method of identification and the identification credential presented, if any, including the date of issuance and expiration of the identification credential and the fee, if any, charged by the notary public.
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If a journal is maintained in an electronic format, the journal must be in a permanent, tamper-evident electronic format complying with the regulations of the lieutenant governor under AS 44.50.072. The notary public shall retain the journal for 10 years after the performance of the last notarial act chronicled in the journal.Ī notary public may create a journal on a tangible medium or in an electronic format.Ī notary public shall maintain at least one journal in a tangible medium to chronicle all notarial acts.Ī notary public may maintain one or more journals in an electronic format to chronicle all notarial acts.

In accordance with the passage of HB 124 (PDF) that goes into effect January 1, 2021, notaries commissioned by the State of Alaska shall maintain a journal in which the notary public chronicles all notarial acts that the notary public performs under AS 44.50.075.
