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OHIO NOTARY EXAM / QUESTIONS &
CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED, 2025 /
2026.
List the 4 powers of a notary
Answer: administer oaths; take & certify acknowledgements; take & certify
depositions; & receive, make & record notarial protests
What is the term of a notary?
Answer: 5 years
Where do notaries get sworn in & what is the clerk fee?
Answer: clerk of courts / $5.00
Statute for penalty of notary act after expired commission
Answer: 147.10 Notary public acting after commission expires.
No notary public shall do or perform any act as a notary public knowing that the
notary public's term of office has expired or that the notary public has resigned the
notary public's commission.
147.11 Forfeiture.
A person appointed notary public who performs any act as such after the expiration
of the person's term of office or after the person resigns the person's commission,
knowing that the person's term has expired or that the person has resigned, shall
forfeit not more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by an action in the name
of the state. Such act shall render the person ineligible for reappointment.
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147.99 Penalty.
(A) Whoever violates section 147.10 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more
than five hundred dollars.
(B) Whoever violates section 147.14 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Acknowledgment ANSWER: notarial act in which a notary certifies having
positively identified a document signer who personally appeared before the notary
and admitted having signed the document freely
Affidavit ANSWER: written statement signed before a Notary (or other authorized
official) by a person who swears
Or affirms to the Notary that the statement is true
Affirmation ANSWER: spoken, solemn promise on one's personal honor, with no
reference to God, that is
Made before a Notary in relation to an affidavit or as a notarial act in its own right
Attorney-in-fact ANSWER: a person, not necessarily a lawyer, who is given the
authority to sign or act on behalf of another individual (principal) through a
document called a power of attorney
Authentication ANSWER: process of proving the genuineness of the signature and
seal of a Notary or other official,
Usually through attachment of certificate of
Authority; can be obtained at the Clerk of Courts
Office
OHIO NOTARY EXAM / QUESTIONS &
CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED, 2025 /
2026.
List the 4 powers of a notary
Answer: administer oaths; take & certify acknowledgements; take & certify
depositions; & receive, make & record notarial protests
What is the term of a notary?
Answer: 5 years
Where do notaries get sworn in & what is the clerk fee?
Answer: clerk of courts / $5.00
Statute for penalty of notary act after expired commission
Answer: 147.10 Notary public acting after commission expires.
No notary public shall do or perform any act as a notary public knowing that the
notary public's term of office has expired or that the notary public has resigned the
notary public's commission.
147.11 Forfeiture.
A person appointed notary public who performs any act as such after the expiration
of the person's term of office or after the person resigns the person's commission,
knowing that the person's term has expired or that the person has resigned, shall
forfeit not more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by an action in the name
of the state. Such act shall render the person ineligible for reappointment.
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147.99 Penalty.
(A) Whoever violates section 147.10 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more
than five hundred dollars.
(B) Whoever violates section 147.14 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Acknowledgment ANSWER: notarial act in which a notary certifies having
positively identified a document signer who personally appeared before the notary
and admitted having signed the document freely
Affidavit ANSWER: written statement signed before a Notary (or other authorized
official) by a person who swears
Or affirms to the Notary that the statement is true
Affirmation ANSWER: spoken, solemn promise on one's personal honor, with no
reference to God, that is
Made before a Notary in relation to an affidavit or as a notarial act in its own right
Attorney-in-fact ANSWER: a person, not necessarily a lawyer, who is given the
authority to sign or act on behalf of another individual (principal) through a
document called a power of attorney
Authentication ANSWER: process of proving the genuineness of the signature and
seal of a Notary or other official,
Usually through attachment of certificate of
Authority; can be obtained at the Clerk of Courts
Office
