Wyoming Notary Journal Requirements — Required Since 2021, Paper or Electronic
Yes, and the format is flexible. Wyoming's Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts, effective July 1, 2021, requires every notary to log each notarial act in a journal. The Secretary of State's own summary of the new law states the flexibility directly: journals may be maintained electronically or by hard copy, and the law allows flexibility on the content of the journal and how long it is retained.
Last updated: August 2026.
What the Wyoming rules expect
Wyoming's notary statutes (Wyoming Statutes title 32) and the Secretary of State's notary rules set out the journal duty. Every notarial act gets logged. The Secretary of State's published highlights of the 2021 law describe a requirement built for working notaries: keep the record, in the medium that suits you.
A journal entry worth keeping captures the date and time of the act, the type of act and document, the signer's name and address, how the signer was identified, and the fee. Enter acts in the order they happen, by date; a record kept in time order is what lets you find an old act years later.
What format works in Wyoming
Hard copy or electronic, per the Secretary of State's summary. A bound book qualifies. Printed pages kept in order qualify as a hard-copy record. An electronic record qualifies. What Wyoming insists on is that every act is logged.
Questions Wyoming notaries ask
When did Wyoming start requiring journals? July 1, 2021, with the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts. The duty applies to Wyoming notaries regardless of when they were commissioned.
Do signers sign the Wyoming journal? The Secretary of State's rules and guidance set the entry expectations; a signature in your record strengthens it as evidence either way.
What if my Wyoming journal is lost or stolen? Notify the Secretary of State promptly by email to [email protected], or by letter to the Compliance Division if you have no email access (SOS Notary Rules, ch. 6, § 3). The same rules note that an employer or another party may impose additional retention and journal content requirements of their own.
Where do I check the current Wyoming rules? The Secretary of State publishes the notary rules and the 2021 law highlights at sos.wyo.gov, and that office is the authority.
Keeping the Wyoming record without the handwriting
Prep & Print Notary Journal fills in the entry on screen before the signing: signers, ID details, documents, fees. Print it, complete it at the signing, and the entry also stays saved in your browser on your own computer. It costs $19 once, at prepandprintnotary.com.
Every state's rule is on one page: Notary Journal Requirements by State.
Sources: Wyoming Secretary of State, New Notary Law Highlights (effective 7/1/2021); SOS Notary Rules, ch. 6; Wyo. Stat. title 32. General information, not legal advice.
