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The NYS Notary Exam is a 40-question, multiple-choice test (1-hour time limit) requiring a 70% passing score (28 correct) to test knowledge of New York notary laws, legal terms, and procedures. Key topics include notary misconduct, acknowledgments, jurat/affidavits, definitions, electronic notarization, and fees.  Key Question Topics & Content Areas Definitions: Legal terms such as Affiant, Attest, Deponent, Jurat, Locus Sigilli, and Statute of Limitations. Notary Acts & Procedures: Understanding the difference between an acknowledgment and a jurat, how to handle affidavits, and... Show more
NYS Notary Exam Questions
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1. A certification of a notarial signature is issued by the court?

2. An (administrator/affiant) is a person appointed by the court to manage the estate of a deceased person who left no will.

3. The Secretary of State can remove a notary without serving a copy of the charges against him?

4. Within __ days of the opening of a the safe deposit box, a copy of the notary public's certificate must be mailed to the lessee at his last known postal address

5. A __ is the testimony of a witness taken out of court, before a notary or other person.

6. Applicants for notary public must have the equivalent of a ___ school education

7. A notary public who is licensed as an attorney in NYS may substitute the words attorney and counselor at law" for "notary public""

8. Official misconduct includes willfully committing an act relating to one's office constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions

9. The ___ makes an index of commissions and official signatures transmitted by the county clerk.

10. A person who acts as a notary without having taken and duly filed the required oath of office is guilty of a _____

11. The ___ appoints and commissions notaries public in New York State.

12. A ______ is a written instrument given to pass title of a personal property from vendor to vendee.

13. An officer before whom an oath or affidavit may be taken is bound to administer the same when required.

14. An official certificate of a notary may be valid even if his term of office had expired.

15. A commissioner of elections or inspector of elections is not eligible for the office of notary public.

16. A person not commissioned a notary public who acts as a notary public is guilty of a felony.

17. a __ is an instrument made subsequent to a will and attached to the will

18. ___ is anything of value given to induce someone to enter into a contract

19. An official certificate of a notary may be valid even if there was ineligibility of the notary to be appointed or commissioned

20. An ___ is formal declaration before an authorized officer by a person who has executed an instrument that such execution is his act and deed.

21. The term conveyance" does not include a will or lease for a term not exceeding 3 years."

22. a notary public is not a public officer

23. Generally, the secretary of state shall receive a non refundable fee of __ for changing the name or address of a notary.

24. Generally, every instrument (except a will) by which any estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, assigned or surrendered is known as

25. Another term for County clerk's certificate is ___

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