State of Louisiana NOTARY PUBLIC LAW TITLE 35 of the LOUISIANA REVISED STATUTES As Amended Through 1996 Published by W. Fox McKeithen Secretary of State from House of Representatives Database

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS 1. Appointment of notaries public 1.1. Commissions previously issued 2. General powers; administration of certain oaths in any parish 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 military officers; 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. Christian names to be given in full, together with parties' permanent mailing addresses 13. Repealed 14. Disbarred or suspended attorney prohibited from exercising notarial functions 17. Acts affecting immovable property; municipal number or address of property; social security number or employer identification number of parties CHAPTER 2. BONDS OF NOTARIES PUBLIC GENERALLY 71. Suspension of notaries; renewal of bonds; 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; designation of substitute notary; 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 and bond; examination; examiners 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 Repealed 198. Liability of notary and surety; effect of surety company bond; cancellation of bond for nonpayment 199. Acts affecting property in Orleans Parish; filing acts; penalty for violation 200. Limitation on actions 201. Granting of commission; prerequisites CHAPTER 5. NOTARIES IN ORLEANS PARISH PART I. APPOINTMENT, BOND, AND OFFICE [REPEALED] 251. through 257. [Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 451, Section 3.] PART II. POWERS AND DUTIES 281. Act evidencing transfer of real property; filing with board of assessors 282. Duplicate copy of sketch, blueprint, or survey 283. Obligations under existing laws not affected 284. Violations 285. Deposit of original acts when property affected situated outside New Orleans 286. Violations 287. Deputies PART III. OFFICE AND CUSTODIAN OF NOTARIAL RECORDS 321. Terms defined 322. Appointment and qualifications; vacancies 323. Central office; preservation of notarial records; permanent volumes 323.1. Microfilm records; use; separate location 324. Bond of custodian 325. List of notaries 326. Statement furnished custodian by notaries 327. Fee payable to custodian by notaries 328. Testing sureties on bonds; new bond; forfeiture of commission for failure to give 329. Preservation by notaries of acts, contracts and instruments; binding and indexing; duties of custodian 330. Proceedings by custodian against absent notaries 331. Revocation of notary's commission for failure to furnish bond 332. Notice by custodian of expiration date of bond 333. Rule to revoke notary's commission 334. Misdemeanor to act after expiration of bond or after surety cancelled 335. Willful violations 336. Deputies of custodian; appointment of archivist 337. Fees, salary, and excess funds of custodian 337.1. City of New Orleans; exemption from fees 338. Annual budget; submission to enumerated entities CHAPTER 6. EX OFFICIO NOTARIES 391. Ex officio notaries; qualifications 392. Ex officio notaries; bond; oath 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 the Governor's Consumer Protection Division 397. Ex officio notaries public for the Louisiana State Racing Commission 398. Ex officio notaries for district attorneys 399. Ex officio notaries for police departments 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 CHAPTER 7. COMMISSIONERS [REPEALED] 451. through 460. [Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 225, Section 1.] 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 All contents of this site Copyright © 1998 - 2001 The Practicing Notary. All Rights Reserved.