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Commission
Expires Stamp
Notary public offices have commissions. Eventually, these things are
going to expire. The purpose of the commission expires stamp is to
label, on the document, the expiration of the commission of that
particular notary public. Once a commission is up, the office has to
re-apply for it and no documents notarized will be accepted.
Normally, the document has just one or two lines, including the date of
expiration and the words "My commission expires on:" or something to
that effect. Some of them have the date in numerical form, like so:
DD/MM/YYYY. Others have it spelled out, to avoid the occasional confused
person. That, essentially, is the sole purpose of the commission expires
stamp.
The commission expires stamp, like other stamps, comes in a number of
forms. There are the self-inking types, the old, traditional, regular
stamps, the slim ones, and the pre-inked stamps. It does not make any
difference which one is used, for as long as the intended message is
clearly spelled out on the document. They're usually cheap and there are
varieties that are sold small enough to fit in a lady's purse or some
similarly sized bag.
The commission expires stamp is used separately from the usual stamp
used by a notary public because not all documents are going to need to
have the expiration for the notary on them. Some states require that
certain legal documents be stamped with a commission expires stamp while
others do not. For the most part, the average person is going to walk in
with a document bearing the said stamp, unless you're suing somebody or
something.
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