Section 14-14-1 - Definitions.
14-14-1. Definitions.
As used in the Uniform Law on Notarial Acts [14-14-1 to 14-14-11 NMSA 1978]:
A. "notarial act" means any act that a notary public of this state is authorized to perform and includes taking an acknowledgment, administering an oath or affirmation, taking a verification upon oath or affirmation, witnessing or attesting a signature, certifying or attesting a copy and noting a protest of a negotiable instrument;
B. "acknowledgment" means a declaration by a person that the person has executed an instrument for the purposes stated therein and, if the instrument is executed in a representative capacity, that the person signed the instrument with proper authority and executed it as the act of the person or entity represented and identified therein;
C. "verification upon oath or affirmation" means a declaration that a statement is true made by a person upon oath or affirmation;
D. "in a representative capacity" means:
(1) for and on behalf of a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity, as an authorized officer, agent, partner, trustee or other representative;
(2) as a public officer, personal representative, guardian or other representative, in the capacity recited in the instrument;
(3) as an attorney in fact for a principal; or
(4) in any other capacity as an authorized representative of another; and
E. "notarial officer" means a notary public or other officer authorized to perform notarial acts.