Bill Text: NJ A2530 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes attorney-at-law who validates affidavit, acknowledgment, proof, oath, or affirmation to affix seal indicating that he is attorney-at-law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A2530 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A2530-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ERIK PETERSON
District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)
SYNOPSIS
Authorizes attorney-at-law who validates affidavit, acknowledgment, proof, oath, or affirmation to affix seal indicating that he is attorney-at-law.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning attorneys-at-law and supplementing chapter 14 of Title 46 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A person licensed to practice law in this State who validates an affidavit, acknowledgment, proof, oath, or affirmation taken before him in accordance with the provisions of chapter 14 of Title 46 of the Revised Statutes or R.S.41:2-1 may, but shall not be required to, affix a seal to the document indicating that he is an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey and, as such, is authorized by statute to perform such validations.
b. Validation of an affidavit, acknowledgment, proof, oath, or affirmation by an attorney-at-law pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall have the same force and effect as validation and the affixing of a seal by a notary public.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would authorize an attorney-at-law who validates an affidavit, acknowledgment, proof, oath, or affirmation to affix a seal to the document indicating that he is an attorney-at-law.
Under the bill, a person licensed to practice law in this State who validates an affidavit, acknowledgment, proof, oath, or affirmation taken before him in accordance with the provisions of chapter 14 of Title 46 of the Revised Statutes or R.S.41:2-1 may, but would not be required to, affix a seal to the document indicating that he is an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey and, as such, is authorized by statute to perform such validations.
The bill specifies that the validation of an affidavit, acknowledgment, proof, oath, or affirmation by an attorney-at-law in accordance with the bill would have the same force and effect as validation by a notary public.
