California Notary Resources
California Notary Forms
- The Application (New & Reappointing), Name Change and Address Change forms
- New & Reappointing
- Name Change
- Address Change
- Change of business, mailing or home address
Send the Secretary of State a letter or a change of address form by certified mail within 30 days of the change. - Change of business address from one county to another
Your commission allows you to notarize throughout the State of California, regardless of where your oath and bond are on file. If the location of your business has changed, you are required to send the Secretary of State an address change via certified mail within 30 days of the change. If the address change is for your business, please include the business name in your notification. If the address change includes a change of county, you may choose to transfer your county, however a county transfer is not required. To file a county change, you must request an oath of office form from the Secretary of State. The oath will have the name of your original county, however, you will take and file your oath of office in the new county, checking the county transfer box at the bottom of the oath form. You must also take a new bond or a duplicate of the original bond and file it together with your oath of office in the new county. A certificate of authorization to manufacture a notary public seal will be sent to you once the Secretary of State has received and processed your oath of office filed in the new county. Your stamp must reflect the county where your most recent oath and bond are filed.