A certificate of acknowledgment, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, must be in substantially the following form: STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA) County of ___________ )
On this _____ day of __________, in the year _________ before me personally appeared _____________, known to me (or proved to me on oath of ________) to be the person who is described in and who executed the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that that person (or they) executed the same.
N.D.C.C. § 47-19-27