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Your state's rules,
without the hundred pages.
Every state publishes an official notary manual. Every one of them is written by lawyers for lawyers — statute citations, cross-references, and almost nothing about how to actually do the job on a Tuesday afternoon.
Our handbooks are the working version. What you may do, what you may charge, what identification is acceptable, how to keep a journal that protects you, and the specific mistakes that end commissions. One for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
$9.97 per state · Instant download · No subscription
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All 50 states and DC
Every handbook is $9.97 and specific to that state's rules.
What's in a state notary handbook
Each handbook is built around the questions notaries actually run into, in the order they run into them:
- Getting and keeping your commission — who commissions you in your state, term length, and what renewal involves
- What you may and may not do — the notarial acts your state authorises, and the line you must not cross into legal advice
- What you may charge — statutory maximum fees per act, and how travel fees work separately from them
- Identification — acceptable ID, credible witnesses, and how to refuse properly when something is wrong
- Your journal — what to record, how long to keep it, and why it is the single thing that protects you
- Stamp and seal requirements — format, what must appear, and what invalidates it
- The mistakes that end commissions — notarizing for absent signers, backdating, blank spaces, and the rest
- Remote online notarization — whether your state authorises it and what it takes to qualify
Why not just read the free state manual?
You should read it. It is the authoritative source and we tell every student to keep a copy.
The problem is that it is written to be legally precise rather than usable. When a borrower hands you an expired licence at 8pm and you need to know in ten seconds whether you can proceed, you do not want statute cross-references. That is the gap the handbook fills — and at $9.97 it costs less than the average mobile appointment fee.
Notary manual, notary primer, notary handbook
These terms all get used for the same thing, and searches for them all land here. Whichever you were looking for, the handbook for your state covers it: the rules, the fees, the acts, the journal, and the mistakes to avoid.
Already commissioned? Start here instead.
If you have the stamp and what you actually need is income rather than rules, the handbook is the wrong first purchase. Go to the Loan Signing Agent Jumpstart — that is the one that changes what you earn. The handbook is a $9.97 reference to keep alongside it.
Start where you are
One handbook. One state. $9.97.
Less than a single mobile notary appointment, and you will reference it for years.
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