2026 NEVADA NOTARY COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Instrument - ✔✔Any contract, deed, bond, other security, or proceedings, or other
document of any kind, proposed, or executed or otherwise made.
✔✔Secure Location - ✔✔Stamp and journal are in the sole possession of the NP to
whom they belong or locked location NP has sole control.
✔✔Venue - ✔✔Identifies the county including without limitation, Carson City, and the
state in which the notarial act was performed.
✔✔State - ✔✔Anywhere United States notary took place.
✔✔County - ✔✔Of including the independent city of Carson City.
✔✔Notarial wording - ✔✔Type of notarial act performed and all other required
information for the notarization.
✔✔Byline - ✔✔Name of the person or persons whose signature is being notarized or
the name of the individual who is presenting the document when a NP is certifying a
copy.
, ✔✔Date - ✔✔When notarial act was completed by NP.
✔✔Administer - ✔✔Give formally - oath or affirmation.
✔✔Affirmed (an affirmation) - ✔✔When a spoken, solemn promise on one's personal
honor, with no reference to a supreme being is made before a notary public in relation
to the notarial act.
✔✔Sworn - ✔✔State under oath a solemn promise to a supreme being.
✔✔Signature by mark - ✔✔X or other symbol is made in place of a signature by a
person who is unable to write which is witnessed by a NP and two other persons.
✔✔Signature - ✔✔Name, word, symbol, or mark executed or otherwise adopted or a
record encrypted, or similarly processed in whole or in part by a person with the present
intent to identify themself and adopt or accept a record.
✔✔Stamp - ✔✔Legible imprint with the required information for the NP as described in
NRS 240.040.
✔✔In a representative capacity - ✔✔For and on behalf of a corp, part, trust, other entity,
as an authorized officer, agent, partner, trustee, or other representative.
✔✔Satisfactory Evidence for a Credible Witness - ✔✔A Notary Public has satisfactory
evidence that a person is the person whose signature is on a document if the person is
identified upon the oath or affirmation of a Credible Witness who personally appears
before the Notary Public.
✔✔CW - ✔✔Notation in the journal that indicates the witness is a Credible Witness.
✔✔Administering an Oath or Affirmation - ✔✔The process by which a Notary Public
determines, from personal knowledge or satisfactory evidence, the identity of the person
taking the oath or affirmation.
✔✔Performing an Oath or Affirmation - ✔✔The individual taking the oath or affirmation
raises one's right hand while the Notary Public states the words of the oath or
affirmation, which the other taker must then repeat back.
✔✔Administering an Oath or Affirmation of Office - ✔✔Affirming and administering the
oath to a person for constitution and government.
✔✔Executing a Jurat - ✔✔The process where a Notary Public determines from personal
knowledge or satisfactory evidence that the affiant is the person named in the
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Instrument - ✔✔Any contract, deed, bond, other security, or proceedings, or other
document of any kind, proposed, or executed or otherwise made.
✔✔Secure Location - ✔✔Stamp and journal are in the sole possession of the NP to
whom they belong or locked location NP has sole control.
✔✔Venue - ✔✔Identifies the county including without limitation, Carson City, and the
state in which the notarial act was performed.
✔✔State - ✔✔Anywhere United States notary took place.
✔✔County - ✔✔Of including the independent city of Carson City.
✔✔Notarial wording - ✔✔Type of notarial act performed and all other required
information for the notarization.
✔✔Byline - ✔✔Name of the person or persons whose signature is being notarized or
the name of the individual who is presenting the document when a NP is certifying a
copy.
, ✔✔Date - ✔✔When notarial act was completed by NP.
✔✔Administer - ✔✔Give formally - oath or affirmation.
✔✔Affirmed (an affirmation) - ✔✔When a spoken, solemn promise on one's personal
honor, with no reference to a supreme being is made before a notary public in relation
to the notarial act.
✔✔Sworn - ✔✔State under oath a solemn promise to a supreme being.
✔✔Signature by mark - ✔✔X or other symbol is made in place of a signature by a
person who is unable to write which is witnessed by a NP and two other persons.
✔✔Signature - ✔✔Name, word, symbol, or mark executed or otherwise adopted or a
record encrypted, or similarly processed in whole or in part by a person with the present
intent to identify themself and adopt or accept a record.
✔✔Stamp - ✔✔Legible imprint with the required information for the NP as described in
NRS 240.040.
✔✔In a representative capacity - ✔✔For and on behalf of a corp, part, trust, other entity,
as an authorized officer, agent, partner, trustee, or other representative.
✔✔Satisfactory Evidence for a Credible Witness - ✔✔A Notary Public has satisfactory
evidence that a person is the person whose signature is on a document if the person is
identified upon the oath or affirmation of a Credible Witness who personally appears
before the Notary Public.
✔✔CW - ✔✔Notation in the journal that indicates the witness is a Credible Witness.
✔✔Administering an Oath or Affirmation - ✔✔The process by which a Notary Public
determines, from personal knowledge or satisfactory evidence, the identity of the person
taking the oath or affirmation.
✔✔Performing an Oath or Affirmation - ✔✔The individual taking the oath or affirmation
raises one's right hand while the Notary Public states the words of the oath or
affirmation, which the other taker must then repeat back.
✔✔Administering an Oath or Affirmation of Office - ✔✔Affirming and administering the
oath to a person for constitution and government.
✔✔Executing a Jurat - ✔✔The process where a Notary Public determines from personal
knowledge or satisfactory evidence that the affiant is the person named in the
