Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/14/05 1:45pm
Msg #44569
Louisiana notaries are an entirely different breed They are civil law notaries and there are different services they can offer than other states notaries. And I think the services vary from parish to parish. I wouldn't even attempt to answer a LA notary question, their laws are more complicated.
Here is one "blurb" from the LA handbook:
§2. General powers; administration of certain oaths in any parish
A.(1) Notaries public have power within their several parishes:
(a) To make inventories, appraisements, and partitions;
(b) To receive wills, make protests, matrimonial contracts, conveyances, and
generally, all contracts and instruments of writing;
(c) To hold family meetings and meetings of creditors;
(d) To receive acknowledgements of instruments under private signature;
(e) To make affidavits of correction;
(f) To affix the seals upon the effects of deceased persons, and to raise the same.
(2) All acts executed by a notary public, in conformity with the provisions of
Civil Code Art. 1833, shall be authentic acts.
(3) Notwithstanding any provision in the law to the contrary, a notary public shall
have power, within the parish or parishes in which he is authorized, to exercise all of the
functions of a notary public and to receive wills in which he is named as administrator,
executor, trustee, attorney for the administrator, attorney for the executor, attorney for the
trustee, attorney for a legatee, attorney for an heir, or attorney for the estate.
B. However, each notary public of this state shall have authority to administer
oaths in any parish of the state, to swear in persons who appear to give testimony at a
deposition before a general reporter or free-lance reporter certified under the provisions
of R.S. 37:2551 et seq., and to verify interrogatories and other pleadings to be used in the
courts of record of this state. Such oaths, and the certificates issued by such notaries shall
be received in the courts of this state and shall have legal efficacy for purposes of the
laws on perjury.
Amended by Acts 1977, No. 354,§ 1; Acts 1981, No. 406,§ 1; Acts 1982, No. 427,§ 1;
Acts 1984, No. 245,§ 1; Acts 1990, No. 843,§ 1, eff. July 24, 1990.
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