Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 85

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 93

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29, DELAWARE CODE, SECTION 4308, BY REQUIRING A NOTARY PUBLIC TO ENSURE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHOSE PRESENCE IS BEING CERTIFIED TO BY THE NOTARY, PROVIDE PROOF OF THEIR IDENTITY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

AMEND Title 29, Delaware Code, Section 4308, by adding a sentence as follows:

"The notary public must ensure, by requiring identification through use of a driver's license, personal identification by someone known to the notary, or other appropriate means, that the individual whose presence and signature is being certified, is in fact the person he or she claims to be."

Approved July 7, 1981.