2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 35:407 — Ex officio notaries for municipal police departments

§407.  Ex officio notaries for municipal police departments

A.  Notwithstanding any provisions of the law relative to qualifications of notaries public, any chief of police of a municipal police department may designate officers in his office and appoint them as ex officio notaries public.

B.  Each officer so appointed as ex officio notary may exercise, within his respective jurisdictional limits, the functions of a notary public only to administer oaths and execute affidavits, acknowledgments, traffic tickets, and other documents, all limited to matters within the official functions of the municipal police department for the enforcement of the provisions of any statute which provides for criminal penalties and of the municipal ordinances which the police department is charged with enforcing.

C.  All acts performed by each ex officio notary public of a police department authorized by this Section shall be performed without charge or other compensation and without the necessity of giving bond.

D.  The chief of police of the police department may suspend or terminate an appointment made in his office pursuant to this Section at any time and separation from the employ of the police department shall automatically terminate the powers of the ex officio notary public.

Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 49, §1, eff. May 7, 1996; Acts 2005, No. 55, §1.

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