Notary Services

NOTARY SERVICES ARE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED WHILE OUR STAFF ARE CURRENTLY BEING CERTIFIED. THANK YOU.

Notary service is subject to the availability of certified staff.

Middletown Public Library will provide notary services free of charge, available by appointment or walk-in during Library hours. 

Please call ahead to confirm staff availability. 

What to bring:

• A VALID government-issued photo ID
• The document to be notarized, completed but unsigned
• All signers of the document and their valid government-issued photo IDs
• Any necessary witnesses must be present

Please be aware that the notaries at Middletown Public Library are not licensed attorneys and cannot provide legal advice. If any issues arise with the authenticity or clarity of a document, or if the circumstances are unclear, the notary may, at their discretion, decline to provide the service.

-Our notaries are NOT attorneys licensed to practice law in this state. They are not licensed to draft legal records, give advice on legal matters, including immigration, or charge a fee for those activities.-

Signature witnessing is a notarial act in which an individual, at a single time and place: • Appears in person before the notary public and presents a document; • Is personally known to the notary public or is identified by the notary through satisfactory evidence of identity; and • Signs the document in the presence of the notary public. The emphasis, when a notary performs a signature witnessing, is to establish the document was signed on a specific date.