AnalysisNevada enacts the Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act (UUFDA) published by the Uniform Law Commission (National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws). The UUFDA essentially allows any sworn declaration (a signed record made under oath) to be made by an unsworn declaration (a signed record made under penalty of perjury) provided that the declaration is made outside of the United States and does not affect a deposition, an oath of office, a document that is to be recorded with a county recorder or a self-proving affidavit on a will.
In 2011 there have been a few bills introduced that allow an unsworn declaration to replace essentially any jurat or affidavit. The NNA is opposed to such bills because they eliminate a crucial function of Notaries. However, since with the UUFDA the scope is so narrowly applied (e.g. the person must be outside of the U.S. and unable to access a U.S. consular post to obtain notarial services and the Act exempts certain types of transactions such as oaths of office, affidavits that must be recorded in the land records and self-proving affidavits on last wills), the NNA remains neutral.
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