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.