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CIVIL CODE
(3) Reasonable reliance on the presentation to the officer of any one of the following, if the
document is current or has been issued within five years:
(A) An identification card or driver’s license issued by the California Department of Motor
Vehicles.
(B) A passport issued by the Department of State of the United States.
(4) Reasonable reliance on the presentation of any one of the following, provided that a
document specified in subparagraphs (A) to (E), inclusive, shall either be current or have
been issued within five years and shall contain a photograph and description of the person
named on it, shall be signed by the person, shall bear a serial or other identifying number,
and, in the event that the document is a passport, shall have been stamped by the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service:
(A) A passport issued by a foreign government.
(B) A driver’s license issued by a state other than California or by a Canadian or Mexican
public agency authorized to issue drivers’ licenses.
(C) An identification card issued by a state other than California.
(D) An identification card issued by any branch of the armed forces of the United States.
(E) An inmate identification card issued on or after January 1, 1988, by the Department of
Corrections, if the inmate is in custody.
(F) An inmate identification card issued prior to January 1, 1988, by the Department of
Corrections, if the inmate is in custody.
(d) An officer who has taken an acknowledgment pursuant to this section shall be presumed
to have operated in accordance with the provisions of law.
(e) Any party who files an action for damages based on the failure of the officer to establish
the proper identity of the person making the acknowledgment shall have the burden of proof
in establishing the negligence or misconduct of the officer.
(f) Any person convicted of perjury under this section shall forfeit any financial interest in
the document.
§ 1188. Certificate of acknowledgment
An officer taking the acknowledgment of an instrument shall endorse thereon or attach
thereto a certificate substantially in the form prescribed in Section 1189.
§ 1189. Certificate of acknowledgment; form; sufficiency of out of state
acknowledgment; force and effect of acknowledgment under prior laws
(a) Any certificate of acknowledgment taken within this state shall be in the following
form:
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State of California
County of _________
On __________ before me, (here insert name and title of the officer), personally
appeared
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_____________________________________________________________________,
personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the
person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to
me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by
his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of
which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
Signature __________________________________
(Seal)
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