Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee |
OPINION 94-107
SUBJECT: Authority of Notary Publics to prepare legal documents.
It is the OPINION of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Unauthorized Practice of Law
Committee that the Office of Notary Public is a creature of statute, specifically created by The
Notary Public Law, 1953 Aug. 21 P.L. 1323 §1, etc., that notaries are specifically limited to the
powers and authority therein granted to them, and that there is nothing in the law which
authorizes a notary public to prepare any documents or writings which would have any legal
effect, and that such preparation of any such documents or writings by a Notary Public is the
unauthorized practice of law, within the meaning of 42 Pa. C.S.A. § 2524. The duties of a
Notary Public are set forth in 57 P.S. Sections 162-165.
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