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2025 Mississippi Code 1972
Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records (Chs. 1 - 65)
Chapter 34 - Revised Mississippi Law on Notarial Acts (§§ 25-34-1 - 25-34-57)
- § 25-34-1. Short title
- § 25-34-3. Definitions
- § 25-34-5. Applicability
- § 25-34-7. Authorized notarial acts; limitation on performance of notarial acts
- § 25-34-9. Fees for notarial services
- § 25-34-11. Personal knowledge of or satisfactory evidence of identity of person before notarial officer required
- § 25-34-13. Personal knowledge of identity and satisfactory evidence of identity of individual appearing before officer defined
- § 25-34-15. Physical presence required for person making statement in or executing signature on record
- § 25-34-17. Refusal by notarial officer to perform notarial act
- § 25-34-19. Individual physically unable to sign a record may direct another to sign on individual's behalf
- § 25-34-21. Persons who may perform notarial acts
- § 25-34-23. Effect of notarial act performed in another state
- § 25-34-25. Effect of notarial act performed under authority and in jurisdiction of federally recognized Indian tribe
- § 25-34-27. Effect of notarial act performed under federal law
- § 25-34-29. Effect of notarial act performed under authority and in jurisdiction of foreign state
- § 25-34-31. Notarial act to be evidenced by certificate; certificate requirements; sufficiency of certificate
- § 25-34-33. Official notary public seal to be procured by every commissioned notary public and provided by every county board of supervisors; destruction of seal upon death or adjudication of incompetency of notary public
- § 25-34-35. Security of notary public's stamping device
- § 25-34-37. Maintenance of journal by notary public chronicling all notarial acts; performance of notarial act and entry must be contemporaneous; entry information
- § 25-34-39. Notarial acts with respect to electronic records
- § 25-34-41. Qualifications of applicant for commission as no- tary public; oath of office; surety bond; term of com- mission; authority provided by commission
- § 25-34-43. Denial, refusal to renew, revocation, suspension or imposition of condition on commission for certain reasons; appeal
- § 25-34-45. Electronic database of notaries public
- § 25-34-47. Limitation on authorization provided by commission as notary public; certain restrictions; penalties for violation
- § 25-34-49. Validity of notarial act
- § 25-34-51. Secretary of State may adopt rules and regulations to implement chapter
- § 25-34-53. Commission as notary public in effect on July 1, 2021, continues to expiration; compliance with chapter by notaries public on or after July 1, 2021
- § 25-34-55. Validity of notarial acts performed before July 1, 2021, not affected by this chapter
- § 25-34-57. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
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