Types of identification

What types of ID are we allowed to accept? Must they have a photo? Other than a driver’s license, I’m not really familiar with what other types of ID look like.

Based on a previous post you said you’re in Florida - did you not take the 3-hour course? It should have outlined all of this. That said, here’s a link to the pertinent statute:

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0100-0199/0117/Sections/0117.05.html

You should bookmark this and keep it available for reference - Chapter 117 has all the regulations you need to know about being anotary.

To answer your question - from the statutes:

  1. Reasonable reliance on the presentation to the notary public of any one of the following forms of identification, if the document is current or has been issued within the past 5 years and bears a serial or other identifying number:
    a. A Florida identification card or driver license issued by the public agency authorized to issue driver licenses;
    b. A passport issued by the Department of State of the United States;
    c. A passport issued by a foreign government if the document is stamped by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services;
    d. A driver license or an identification card issued by a public agency authorized to issue driver licenses in a state other than Florida, a territory of the United States, or Canada or Mexico;
    e. An identification card issued by any branch of the armed forces of the United States;
    f. A veteran health identification card issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs;
    g. An inmate identification card issued on or after January 1, 1991, by the Florida Department of Corrections for an inmate who is in the custody of the department;
    h. An inmate identification card issued by the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, for an inmate who is in the custody of the department;
    i. A sworn, written statement from a sworn law enforcement officer that the forms of identification for an inmate in an institution of confinement were confiscated upon confinement and that the person named in the document is the person whose signature is to be notarized; or
    j. An identification card issued by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.