N.Y. Executive Law § 133: Certification of notarial signatures

§ 133. Certification of notarial signatures. The county clerk of a

county in whose office any notary public has qualified or has filed

their autograph signature and a certificate of official character,

shall, when so requested and upon payment of a fee of three dollars,

affix to any certificate of proof or acknowledgment or oath signed by

such notary anywhere in the state of New York, a certificate under their

hand and seal, stating that a commission or a certificate of official

character of such notary with their autograph signature has been filed

in the county clerk's office, and that the county clerk was at the time

of taking such proof or acknowledgment or oath duly authorized to take

the same; that the county clerk is well acquainted with the handwriting

of such notary public or has compared the signature on the certificate

of proof or acknowledgment or oath with the autograph signature

deposited in their office by such notary public and believes that the

signature is genuine. An instrument with such certificate of

authentication of the county clerk affixed thereto shall be entitled to

be read in evidence or to be recorded in any of the counties of this

state in respect to which a certificate of a county clerk may be

necessary for either purpose. In addition to the foregoing powers, a

county clerk of a county in whose office a notary public has qualified

may certify the signature of an electronic notary public, registered

with the secretary of state pursuant to section one hundred

thirty-five-c of this article, provided such county clerk has received

from the secretary of state, an exemplar of the notary public's

registered electronic signature.