Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 20.919

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • seal: includes the word "seal" the letters "L S" and a scroll or other device intended to represent a seal, if any is affixed in the proper place for a seal, as well as an impression of a seal on the instrument. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01

Each state agency may expend from its proper appropriation a sum sufficient to pay all fees and expenses necessarily incurred in qualifying an employee as a notary public, and securing a notarial seal or rubber stamp, but such notary shall receive no fees for notarial services rendered to the state.