Presumptions Affecting Acknowledged Writings and Official Writings
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 194 Cal. App. 3d 1364 - Snelgrove v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1987)
Most recently applied in 79 Cal. App. 4th 720 - Alvarez v. State of California (October 1999)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A signature is presumed to be genuine and authorized if it purports to be the signature, affixed in his official capacity, of:
(a) A public employee of the United States.
(b) A public employee of any public entity in the United States.
(c) A notary public within any state of the United States.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.