Legislation
State: Louisiana
Signed: June 24, 2004
Effective: August 15, 2004
Chapter: Act No. 455
SummarySenate Bill 226 appears to have been enacted to make it more convenient for Notaries to add a legible and photocopiable commission name to notarized documents.
AffectsAmends and reenacts Sections 35:12 and 35:511 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes.
Changes
- For each official act, requires the Notary to type, print or stamp his or her official commission name after affixing a signature (previously, Notaries could only type or print their names), and requires all public recording and filing agencies in the state to reject documents without the name so typed, printed or stamped after January 1, 2005.
- Requires Notaries to insert in their official acts the full name of each signing party, not just the initials, and defines a “full name.”
AnalysisThis bill appears to have been enacted to make it more convenient for Notaries to add a legible and photocopiable commission name to notarized documents. In so doing, a door for stamp and/or seal sales in Louisiana may have been opened for us. (Currently, Louisiana Notaries are not required to use a seal of office.)
Read House Bill 226.