Hello,
I am the office manager for the company I work for. I am also a notary. I was wondering, when I receive lien waiver can I sign them as the office manager and notaries or do I have to have someone else sign while I notarize?
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Sep 23, 2019
The first thing you may want to look at is whether your lien waivers need to be notarized at all. The answer is likely no. In Illinois, the answer is no. See this article: Do lien waivers need to be notarized?
The second thing gets into your question more specifically -- and the answer is no. You cannot both sign and notarize a document. The entire point of notarization is to have a third party verify that the person who signed a document is, in fact, the person claiming to sign it. So, you cannot notarize your own signature.
Two people who work together and who are in the same office can do this though. So, if you are a notary and your office manager is not, you can have the office manager sign the lien waiver, and you can notarize that office manager's signature. That is perfectly okay.