Public Act 102-0500
 
HB3764 EnrolledLRB102 14941 LNS 20296 b


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



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



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

        (1) that 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,

        (2) that he acknowledged he executed the instrument,

        (3) that, in the case of:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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