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| 1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act | ||||||
| 5 | is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
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| 6 | (765 ILCS 30/6) (from Ch. 30, par. 226)
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| 7 | Sec. 6. Certificate
of acknowledgment. The words | ||||||
| 8 | "acknowledged before me" means
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| 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,
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| 13 | (2) that he acknowledged he executed the instrument,
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| 14 | (3) that, in the case of:
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| 15 | (i) a natural person, he executed the instrument | ||||||
| 16 | for the purposes therein stated;
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| 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;
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| 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;
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| 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;
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 18 | (Source: P.A. 76-1105.)
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