102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3764
 
Introduced 2/22/2021, by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



765 ILCS 30/6  from Ch. 30, par. 226

     Amends Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act. Changes the definition of "acknowledged before me" to mean that, among other things, the person acknowledging appeared before the person taking the acknowledgment in a manner prescribed by the laws or regulations applicable in the place in which the acknowledgment is taken.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act 
5is amended  by changing Section 6 as follows:
 



6    (765 ILCS 30/6)  (from Ch. 30, par. 226)



7    Sec. 6. Certificate
of acknowledgment. The words 
8"acknowledged before me" means

9        (1) that the person acknowledging appeared before the 
10    person taking the
acknowledgment in a manner prescribed by 
11    the laws or regulations applicable in the place in which 
12    the acknowledgment is taken,

13        (2) that he acknowledged he executed the instrument,

14        (3) that, in the case of:

15            (i) a natural person, he executed the instrument 
16        for the purposes therein stated;

17            (ii) a corporation, the officer or agent 
18        acknowledged he held the position or title set forth 
19        in the instrument and certificate, he signed the 
20        instrument on behalf of the corporation by proper 
21        authority, and the instrument was the act of the 
22        corporation for the purpose therein stated;

23            (iii) a partnership, the partner or agent 
 
 
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1        acknowledged he signed the instrument on behalf of the 
2        partnership by proper authority and he executed the 
3        instrument as the act of the partnership for the 
4        purposes therein stated;

5            (iv) a person acknowledging as principal by an 
6        attorney in fact, he executed the instrument by proper 
7        authority as the act of the principal for the purposes 
8        therein stated;

9            (v) a person acknowledging as a public officer, 
10        trustee, administrator, guardian, or other 
11        representative, he signed the instrument by proper 
12        authority and he executed the instrument in the 
13        capacity and for the purposes therein stated; and

14        (4) that the person taking the acknowledgment either 
15    knew or had
satisfactory evidence that the person 
16    acknowledging was the person named in
the instrument or 
17    certificate.

18(Source: P.A. 76-1105.)