NOTICE: Notaries Public
ALL notaries must use a stamp conforming to the new standard effective October 1, 2018. This is regardless of a notary’s current status or commission expiration date.
51-117.OFFICIAL STAMP. The official stamp of a notary public:
(1) Must include the notary public’s name, the words "Notary Public," the words "State of Idaho," and the notary’s state-issued commission number;
(2) Must include a serrated or milled-edge border in a rectangular or circular form;
(3) May include the words "my commission expires:" followed by the notary’s current commission expiration date;
(4) Must be capable of being copied together with the record to which it is affixed or attached or with which it is logically associated; and;
(5) May not include anything more than that which is allowed in subsections (1) through (3) of the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts.
51-118.STAMPING DEVICE.
(1) The stamping device for tangible records must be an inked stamp that provides an image of the notary’s official stamp that meets the requirements of section 51-117, Idaho Code, and that is readily visible upon copying. The stamp shall not exceed two and one-fourth (2.25) inches by one (1) inch if rectangular or one and three-fourths (1.75) inches in diameter if circular.
(2) The stamping device for electronic records must be an electronic device or process that provides an image of the notary’s official stamp that meets the requirements of section 51-117, Idaho Code, and that is readily visible upon copying.
(3) A notary public is responsible for the security of the notary public’s stamping device and may not allow another individual to use the device to perform a notarial act. On resignation from, or the revocation or expiration of, the notary public’s commission, the notary public shall disable the stamping device by destroying, defacing, damaging, erasing or securing it against use in a manner that renders it unusable. On the death or adjudication of incompetency of a notary public, the notary public’s personal representative or guardian or any other person knowingly in possession of the stamping device shall render it unusable by destroying, defacing, damaging, erasing or securing it against use in a manner that renders it unusable.