2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 28 - Property
Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments
§ 91. Acknowledgments by persons serving with the armed forces of the United States within or without the United States

• In addition to the acknowledgments of instruments in the manner and form and as otherwise authorized by this chapter, any person serving in or with the armed forces of the United States may acknowledge the same wherever located before any commissioned officer in active service of the armed forces of the United States with the rank of Second Lieutenant or higher in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, or Ensign or higher in the Navy or United States Coast Guard. The instrument shall not be rendered invalid by the failure to state therein the place of execution or acknowledgment. No authentication of the officer's certificate of acknowledgment shall be required but the officer taking the acknowledgment shall indorse thereon or attach thereto a certificate substantially in the following form:

  • • On this the day of , 19 , before me, , the undersigned officer, personally appeared , known to me (or satisfactorily proven) to be serving in or with the armed forces of the United States and to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes therein contained. And the undersigned does further certify that he is at the date of this certificate a commissioned officer of the rank stated below and is in the active service of the armed forces of the United States.

      Signature of Officer.Rank of Officer and Command

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