West Virginia Code
Article 4. Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts
§39-4-3. Applicability; Operative Date of Enactment; Effect on Existing Law

(a) This article applies to a notarial act performed on or after July 1, 2014.
(b) The repeal of chapter twenty-nine-c of this code and the repeal of articles four, chapter twenty-nine and one-a, chapter thirty-nine of this code and the amendment and reenactment of section two, article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code, pursuant to the provisions of Enrolled House Bill No. 4012, as enacted by the Legislature during the regular session, 2014, are operative on June 30, 2014. The prior enactments of chapter twenty-nine-c; articles four, chapter twenty-nine and one-a, chapter thirty-nine; and section two, article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code, whether amended and reenacted or repealed by the passage of Enrolled House Bill No. 4012, have full force and effect until the provisions of Enrolled House Bill No. 4012, are operative on June 30, 2014, unless after the effective date of Enrolled House Bill No. 4012, and prior to the operative date of June 30, 2014, the provisions of Enrolled House Bill No. 4012, are otherwise repealed or amended and reenacted.

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West Virginia Code

Chapter 39. Records and Papers

Article 4. Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts

§39-4-1. Short Title

§39-4-2. Definitions

§39-4-3. Applicability; Operative Date of Enactment; Effect on Existing Law

§39-4-4. Authority to Perform Notarial Act

§39-4-5. Requirements for Certain Notarial Acts

§39-4-6. Personal Appearance Required

§39-4-6a. Remote Acknowledgements and Notarizations Under Covid-19 Executive Order Deemed Valid

§39-4-7. Identification of Individual

§39-4-8. Authority to Refuse to Perform Notarial Act

§39-4-9. Signature if Individual Is Unable to Sign

§39-4-10. Notarial Act in This State

§39-4-11. Notarial Act in Another State

§39-4-12. Notarial Act Under Authority of Federally Recognized Indian Tribe

§39-4-13. Notarial Act Under Federal Authority

§39-4-14. Foreign Notarial Act

§39-4-15. Certificate of Notarial Act

§39-4-16. Short Form Certificates

§39-4-17. Official Stamp

§39-4-18. Stamping Device

§39-4-19. Notification Regarding Performance of Notarial Act on Electronic Record, Selection of Technology

§39-4-20. Commission as Notary Public; Qualifications; No Immunity or Benefit; Disposition of Fees

§39-4-21. Grounds to Deny, Refuse to Renew, Revoke, Suspend, or Condition Commission of Notary Public

§39-4-22. Database of Notaries Public

§39-4-23. Prohibited Acts

§39-4-24. Validity of Notarial Acts

§39-4-25. Rules

§39-4-26. Notary Public Commission and Commissioner Appointment in Effect

§39-4-27. Savings Clause

§39-4-28. Uniformity of Application and Construction

§39-4-29. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

§39-4-30. Maximum Fees

§39-4-31. Government Notaries Public

§39-4-32. Liability of Notary and of an Employer of Notary

§39-4-33. Criminal Penalties

§39-4-34. Action for Injunction; Unauthorized Practice of Law

§39-4-35. Administrative Complaints and Investigations

§39-4-36. Secretary of State Record Retention

§39-4-37. Remote Online Notarial Act Performed for Remotely Located Individual

§39-4-38. Remote Ink Notarial Act Performed for Remotely Located Individual