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.