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CA Senate Bill 1050 was filed August 15, 2014, which amended Section 1189 of the State Civil Code. The effective date of this amendment is January 1, 2015.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces ... h_keywords

Background abstract:

http://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge ... -bill-1050

Note: According to the California Secretary of State’s office; yes, the physical box bordering the new text is required, even on maps (above State of California, County of______). Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder confirmed this requirement. The County also noted that any Acknowledgment signed and dated prior to January 1, 2015 may use the current Acknowledgment even if the map gets filed/recorded after December 31, 2014.

If submitting a Final Map or Parcel Map to be filed/recorded in the next month or so, be sure to communicate with the owner, or others who may be signing with a notary, to coordinate the signing date so as not to have the map rejected by the Clerk/Recorder.

Thanks for the info.

The article says the box is not required, just an example.

The text of the revised statute requires the statement to be enclosed within a box.
We have modified our acknowledgment for Notices to be two lines across the top of the 8 1/2 x 11 form within a box in order to save space.

Does anyone else want to write "DUH" beside the box?

That's exactly what I thought too.

I understand why.

My wife was a notary, and many people thought her signature was some sort of a guarantee of the document's authenticity, correctness, truthfulness and lawfulness.