Secretary of State to take administrative action against the commission held by the notary public
pursuant to Section 8214.1.
(2) The journal shall be in addition to and apart from any copies of notarized documents that
may be in the possession of the notary public and shall include all of the following:
(A) Date, time, and type of each official act.
(B) Character of every instrument sworn to, affirmed, acknowledged, or proved before the
notary.
(C) The signature of each person whose signature is being notarized.
(D) A statement as to whether the identity of a person making an acknowledgment or
taking an oath or affirmation was based on personal knowledge or satisfactory evidence. If
identity was established by satisfactory evidence pursuant to Section 1185 of the Civil Code,
then the journal shall contain the signature of the credible witness swearing or affirming to the
identity of the individual or the type of identifying document, the governmental agency issuing
the document, the serial or identifying number of the document, and the date of issue
or expiration of the document.
(E) If the identity of the person making the acknowledgment or taking the oath or
affirmation was established by the oaths or affirmations of two credible witnesses whose
identities are proven upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence, the type of identifying
documents, the identifying numbers of the documents and the dates of issuance or expiration of
the documents presented by the witnesses to establish their identity.
(F) The fee charged for the notarial service.
(G) If the document to be notarized is a deed, quitclaim deed, or deed of trust affecting
real property, the notary public shall require the party signing the document to place his or her
right thumbprint in the journal. If the right thumbprint is not available, then the notary shall have
the party use his or her left thumb, or any available finger and shall so indicate in the journal. If
the party signing the document is physically unable to provide a thumbprint or fingerprint, the
notary shall so indicate in the journal and shall also provide an explanation of that physical
condition. This paragraph shall not apply to a trustee's deed resulting from a decree of
foreclosure or a nonjudicial foreclosure pursuant to Section 2924 of the Civil Code, nor to a deed
of reconveyance.
(b) If a sequential journal of official acts performed by a notary public is stolen, lost,
misplaced, destroyed, damaged, or otherwise rendered unusable as a record of notarial acts and
information, the notary public shall immediately notify the Secretary of State by certified or
registered mail. The notification shall include the period of the journal entries, the notary public
commission number, and the expiration date of the commission, and when applicable, a
photocopy of any police report that specifies the theft of the sequential journal of official acts.
(c) Upon written request of any member of the public, which request shall include the name
of the parties, the type of document, and the month and year in which notarized, the notary shall
supply a photostatic copy of the line item representing the requested transaction at a cost of not
more than thirty cents ($0.30) per page.
(d) The journal of notarial acts of a notary public is the exclusive property of that notary
public, and shall not be surrendered to an employer upon termination of employment, whether or
not the employer paid for the journal, or at any other time. The notary public shall not surrender
the journal to any other person, except the county clerk, pursuant to Section 8209, or to a peace
officer, as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.3 of the Penal Code, acting in his or her
official capacity and within his or her authority, in response to a criminal search warrant signed