Common use of STATE OF Clause in Contracts

STATE OF. On the day of in the year , before me, the undersigned, personally appeared , personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument, the individual(s), or the person on behalf of which the individual(s) acted, executed the instrument [add the following if the acknowledgment is taken outside NY State] and that said individual made such appearance before the undersigned in the (insert the city or other political subdivision and the State or country or other place the acknowledgment was taken).