I only had one person who might have been a sovereign citizen request a notarization. The form he presented was weird so I turned him away.
A problem with CA law is that notaries have a duty to perform notarizations unless certain reasons to refuse exist. So if a s. c. shows up the notary has to notarize unless the notary can find a problem with the document that is listed in the law as a reason to refuse.
In my state, VT, as with most other states that passed RULONA, in Title 26 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated
"5372. Authority to refuse to perform notarial act
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"(b) A notary public may refuse to perform a notarial act unless refusal is prohibited by law other than this chapter."
The kinds of reasons that are apt to be prohibited in other parts of the law are discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, religion, and similar unfair reasons. So unless the notary is engaging in some sort of systematic bias against a protected group, the notary can turn away any request that doesn't smell right. |
