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Title 35 - Notaries Public and Commissioners
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- §1. Appointment of notaries public
- §1.1. Commissions previously issued
- §2. General powers; administration of certain oaths in any parish; true copies
- §2.1. Affidavit of corrections
- §3. Oaths and acknowledgments
- §4. Notaries connected with banks and other corporations; powers
- §5. Foreign notaries; oaths, acts, and acknowledgments; effect
- §6. Foreign notaries; acts and other instruments, effect
- §7. Acts before authorized military personnel; force and effect
- §8. Recorder's copies of instruments before military officers; effect
- §9. Instruments, before ambassadors and consular officials
- §10. Place of executing notarial acts
- §11. Marital status of parties to be given
- §12. Names to be given in full, together with parties' permanent mailing addresses; identification numbers
- §13. Repealed by Acts 1976, No. 384, 1
- §14. Disbarred or suspended attorney prohibited from exercising notarial functions
- §15. Revocation or suspension of notarial commission or authority to exercise notarial powers
- §16. Administrative revocation of notarial commission or authority
- §17. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
CHAPTER 2. BONDS OF NOTARIES PUBLIC GENERALLY
- §71. Requirement of bond or insurance; suspension of notarial commissions; renewal of bonds or insurance; penalty
- §72. Bonds; elimination of requirement
- §73. Bond not mortgage until suit filed and notice of lis pendens recorded
- §74. Inclusion of bonds in mortgage certificates
- §75. Substituted notarial bond with personal surety
- §76. Release of surety company upon acceptance of personal surety bond
- §77. Cancellation of surety company bond
CHAPTER 3. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
- §131. Grant of leave of absence; suspension of prescription
- §132. Notaries in military service, leave of absence
- §133. Notaries in military service, period of leave
- §134. Expiration of bond during military service; renewal
CHAPTER 4. APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATIONS, AND BONDS OF NOTARIES
- §191. Appointment; qualifications; examination
- §191.1. Secretary of state; uniform statewide standards, rules, and procedures for notarial examinations
- §191.2. Secretary of state; authority; duties
- §191.3. Notary change of address; duty to register
- §191.4. Secretary of state; procedures for registration and reporting of notary instructors
- §192. Execution and recordation of bond; filing of certificate of competency
- §193. Original surety company bond; necessity for recordation
- §194. Substitution of personal surety bond or special mortgage
- §195. Cancellation of personal surety bond or special mortgage
- §196. Substituted surety company bond; necessity for recordation
- §197. Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 451, 3
- §198. Liability of notary and surety; effect of surety company bond; cancellation of bond for nonpayment
- §199. Duty to file, register, or record notarial instruments
- §200. Limitation on actions
- §201. Granting of commission; prerequisites
- §202. Annual report; filing fee; penalties; suspension
CHAPTER 5. NOTARIES IN ORLEANS PARISH
PART I. APPOINTMENT, BOND, AND OFFICE [REPEALED]
- §251. NOTARIES IN ORLEANS PARISH
- §282. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 730, §2.
- §283. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 730, §2.
- §284. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 730, §2.
- §285. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 730, §2.
- §286. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 730, §2.
- §287. Deputies
PART III OFFICE AND CUSTODIAN OF NOTARIAL RECORDS
- §321. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §322. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §323. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §323.1. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §324. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §325. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §326. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §327. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §328. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 1, 2007.
- §329. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1102, 2.
- §330. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §331. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §332. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §333. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §334. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §335. Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 212, §1, eff. July 2, 2007.
- §336. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §337. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §337.1. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
- §338. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
CHAPTER 6. EX OFFICIO NOTARIES
- §391. Ex officio notaries; qualifications
- §392. Ex officio notaries; bond; oath
- §392.1. Ex officio notaries
- §393. Ex officio notaries public for the Department of Public Safety and Corrections; powers
- §393.1. Ex officio notaries public for the Department of Public Safety and Corrections; appointment by secretary
- §394. Ex officio notaries public for the Department of Justice
- §395. Ex officio notaries public for the Department of State
- §396. Ex officio notaries public for Department of Insurance
- §397. Ex officio notaries public for the Louisiana State Racing Commission
- §398. Ex officio notaries for district attorneys
- §399. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 55, §2.
- §400. Ex officio notaries public for the United States Forest Service
- §401. Ex officio notary public for the Sabine River Authority
- §402. Ex officio notaries public for the vital records registry
- §403. Ex officio notaries for hospital service district hospitals
- §404. Ex officio notaries public of the office of financial institutions
- §405. Ex officio notary public for levee district police
- §406. Ex officio notaries public of the adult protection agency
- §407. Ex officio notaries for municipal police departments
- §408. Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 866, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.
- §409. Ex officio notaries for university police departments
- §410. Ex officio notaries public for the Louisiana Agricultural Finance Authority or the Department of Agriculture and Forestry
- §411. Ex officio notaries public for the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
- §412. Ex officio notaries; nonresident persons licensed to practice law with offices in this state
- §413. Ex officio notaries public for municipal or parish fire departments and fire protection districts
- §414. Ex officio notaries public for Natchitoches Parish government
- §415. Ex officio notaries for the Causeway Police Department
- §416. Ex officio notaries for coroners
- §417. Ex officio notaries public for the DeSoto Parish government
CHAPTER 7. COMMISSIONERS [REPEALED]
CHAPTER 8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART I. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS WITHIN STATE
- §511. Forms of acknowledgment
- §512. Married women, acknowledgment by
- §513. Officers before whom proof or acknowledgment taken in other states
PART II. FOREIGN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- §551. Officers before whom made
- §552. Form of certificate of acknowledgment
- §553. Acknowledgments in form used in state
- §554. Interpretation and construction
- §555. Force and effect
CHAPTER 9. UNAUTHORIZED EXERCISE OF NOTARIAL POWERS
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