Under Executive Law §134, is a stamped facsimile county-clerk seal acceptable on an authentication certificate?

AI Explanation

County clerk certificate formalities are flexible. Executive Law §134 provides that the signature and seal of a county clerk on a certificate of official character, or the clerk’s signature on a certificate of authentication, may be facsimile, printed, stamped, photographed, or engraved. By contrast, the notary’s own statutory statement as to authority under Executive Law §137 still concerns the notary’s information beneath the notary signature.