1. A remote online notary shall use a jurat certificate in substantially the following form in notarizing a signature or mark on an affidavit or other sworn or affirmed written declaration:

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State of Missouri
County (and/or City) of __________
On this ______ day of _____, 20 _____, before me, the undersigned notary, personally appeared by remote online means ________ (name of document signer), (personally known to me) (proved to me through identification documents, which were __________,) (proved to me on the oath or affirmation of ___________, who is personally known to me and stated to me that (he)(she) personally knows the document signer and is unaffected by the document,) (proved to me on the oath or affirmation of _____ and ______, whose identities have been proven to me through identification documents and who have stated to me that they personally know the document signer and are unaffected by the document,) to be the person who signed the preceding or attached document in my presence and who swore or affirmed to me that the contents of the document are truthful and accurate to the best of (his)(her) knowledge and belief.
________________________(official signature and seal of notary)

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2. A remote online notary shall use a certificate in substantially the following form in notarizing the signature or mark of any person acknowledging on his or her own behalf or as a partner, corporate officer, attorney in fact, or in any other representative capacity who appears remotely:

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State of Missouri
County (and/or City) of ____________
On this ______ day of _______, 20 ______, before me, the undersigned notary, personally appeared by remote online means ________ (name of document signer), (personally known to me) (proved to me through identification documents, which were _______,) (proved to me on the oath or affirmation of _____________, who is personally known to me and stated to me that (he)(she) personally knows the document signer and is unaffected by the document,) (proved to me on the oath or affirmation of _____ and ______, whose identities have been proven to me through identification documents and who have stated to me that they personally know the document signer and are unaffected by the document,) to be the person whose name is signed on the preceding or attached document, and acknowledged to me that (he)(she) signed it voluntarily for its stated purpose(.)
(as partner for _____________, a partnership.)
(as _______ for ___________, a corporation.)
(as attorney in fact for ______, the principal.)
(as _____ for ______, (a)(the) __________)
___________________ (official signature and seal of notary)

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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 486.1175

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affirmation: a notarial act, or part thereof, that is legally equivalent to an oath and in which an individual at a single time and place:

    (a) Appears in person before the notary. See Missouri Laws 486.600

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • certificate: the part of, or attachment to, a notarized document that, in the performance of the notarization, is completed by the notary, bears the notary's official signature and seal, and states the date, venue, and facts attested by the notary in the particular notarial act. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Jurat: a notarial act in which an individual at a single time and place:

    (a) Appears in person before the notary and presents a document. See Missouri Laws 486.600

  • notary: any person commissioned to perform notarial acts pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • Oath: a notarial act, or part thereof, that is legally equivalent to an affirmation and in which an individual at a single time and place:

    (a) Appears in person before the notary. See Missouri Laws 486.600

  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • personally knows: familiarity with an individual resulting from interactions with that individual over a period of time sufficient to dispel any reasonable uncertainty that the individual has the identity claimed. See Missouri Laws 486.600
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