{"data":{"id":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-6-5-114","jurisdiction":"us-wy","citation":"Wyo. Stat. § 6-5-114","heading":"Notarial officers; issuance of certificate without proper acknowledgment; penalties.","body":"A notarial officer commits a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or both, if he signs and affixes his stamp to a certificate of acknowledgment when the party executing the instrument has not first acknowledged the execution of the instrument in the presence of, as defined in W.S. 32-3-102(a)(iii), the notarial officer, if by law the instrument is required to be recorded or filed and cannot be filed without a certificate of acknowledgment signed and sealed by a notarial officer.","path":["TITLE 6 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES","CHAPTER 5 - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION","ARTICLE 1 - OFFENSES BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS"],"source_url":"https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title06.pdf","current_through":"2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:16:32Z","sha256":"c8359d150a9219e0d5e0ed8fe9147e36fe2438eb60bcc3607b25caaa0e88d746","source_id":"us-wy","stale":false,"prev":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-6-5-113","next":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-6-5-115"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}