Every deed or other instrument affecting real estate, executed by a corporation, must be acknowledged by an officer or attorney-in-fact subscribing the name of the corporation thereto, which acknowledgment may be in substantially a form as provided for in the Uniform Law on Notarial Acts or in substantially the following form:

Before me, a __________ in and for this state, on this __________ day of __________, personally appeared __________ to me known to be the identical person who subscribed the name of the maker thereof to the foregoing instrument as its (attorney-in-fact, president, vice-president, chair, or vice-chair of the board of directors or mayor, as the case may be) and acknowledged to me that __________ executed the same as __________ free and voluntary act and deed, and as the free and voluntary act and deed of the corporation, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.