The new Pennsylvania law introduces an additional type of notarial act, witnessing or attesting a signature. Signature witnessing requires the signer to personally appear before the Notary and be identified through personal knowledge or satisfactory evidence. For a signature witnessing, the individual appearing before the Notary is always required to sign the document in the Notary’s presence. The Notary then completes the certificate wording for witnessing a signature as required by section 316 of the new law.
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