The Library offers free notary services for our patrons. Services are provided by appointment only. Call 540-775-2147 for availability.
Persons seeking notarizations must bring:
- Unsigned documents
- Yourself and/or anyone whose signature needs to be notarized
- Valid photo identification (for all signers)
- Witnesses, if required. Patrons must provide their own witnesses that are known to them. Library staff cannot serve as witnesses, and library patrons may not be solicited to act as witnesses.
Notary publics at the Library will not:
- Notarize copies of any kind
- Notarize birth, marriage or death certificates
- Notarize real estate transactions
- Perform marriages or any other act that constitutes the practice of law
- Prepare legal documents or give legal advice
- Post or pre-date a document
- Notarize documents in a language they do not understand
- Notarize documents requiring verification of facts
- Act as authorized representatives for employers to verify the employment eligibility of employees (I-9 forms)
- The Notary cannot advise instruction regarding documents or forms to be notarized.
Notaries will not provide service if the patron, document, or circumstances of the request raise any issue of authenticity, ambiguity, doubt, or uncertainty for the Library. Notaries may, at his/her sole discretion, decline to provide Notary Service.